AddWeb 4 Anti-Spam Measures


With the release of AddWeb 4, we have expanded the AddWeb 'Rules Checking', which helps you from inadvertently spamming search engines and other resources that AddWeb 4 submits to. Submission Spamming can be defined as the process of submitting too many web pages to a search engine, submitting websites too often and even over use or abuse of keywords.
Cyberspace HQ has taken the initiative to assist search engines in maintaining clean and accurate databases. We will never engage in actions, or cause our users to engage in actions to subvert or otherwise compromise the integrity of search engine databases. Our Rules Checking system help us in this endeavor.

Most of the search engines don't want you to submit more than one web page because they have spiders (or robots) that go to the page you submit and automatically index other web pages on your site. So if you submit more than one, you are only wasting search engine bandwidth and server resources. Most link directories don't want you to submit too frequently because they don't want their pages filled with duplicate links to the same site.

Apply this to the frequency of your submissions. If a search engine requires six weeks to add your link, and you submit 5 times a week, you will have submitted 29 times more than necessary, wasting bandwidth and server resources, not to mention human resources in some cases.Many of these sites have humans adding your link by hand.

Equally important are many of the smaller sites. Many of the sites that give awards to websites, or smaller link directories, actually receive your submission through e-mail. You can imagine that irresponsible use of AddWeb 4 could flood their e-mail boxes, and you would wind up with little other than angry webmasters who will refuse to add your link to show for it.

Because of these issues, we have written a set of controls into AddWeb 4 that keep you from inadvertently breaking the rules. AddWeb 4 is the only submission software that has gone to such great lengths to be search engine friendly. In fact, other submission programs allow submission spamming by design. We are adamantly against this practice. We believe that if AddWeb 4 is a welcome source of submission for the search engines and other resources, that your website will be more welcome as well. Please help us combat Submission Spamming by refraining from using your AddWeb 4 in an abusive or irresponsible manner.

The rule checking controls are as follows:

Submission Frequency
Many sites request that you submit no more than once a month. Others say once a day, or once a week. Each resource in our database has a rule for this. If you submitted your profile to an engine today that wants no more than one submission from you a month, each time you attempt to submit that profile to the same engine for the next month, AddWeb 4 will skip the engine and notify you at the end of the submission that the submission was skipped because you would have broken a frequency rule.

Maximum Submissions
Some sites will want you to submit once, and only once. A good example of this would be many Award Sites. These sites are often run by people who receive your submission in e-mail. If they issue you an award, great. If not, you simply don't. Multiple submissions in this case like this would only serve to anger people.

Domain Level Submissions
Some sites will only allow one single page in a domain to be submitted. In these cases, anything below www.yourdomain.com, for example, would be ignored.

Directory Level Submissions
Some sites will only allow one single page per directory on your web server. This would allow a submission of www.yourdomain.com/yourname1/ and www.yourdomain.com/yourname2/, but would not allow anything other than the index page in those directories.

Content Control
AddWeb 4 asks you if your site is Personal, Commercial, Adult Related, or MLM related. Some sites will restrict submissions for sites with such content. A site may, for example only want adult sites, so if you are not an adult site, AddWeb 4 won't submit you. On the other hand, they may refuse adult sites... or personal sites.

Top Level Domain Control
Some sites will only accept submissions from websites in certain countries. For example, an Italian site may require that your domain be www.yourcompany.it (.it means Italy).

Country and Region Submissions
In the same vein as Top Level Domains, some engines only accept website submissions from specific regions. So, that Italian site may be a .com and thus accepted based on the actual content rather than the Top Level Domain.

In all of the above cases, if your submission breaks a rule, AddWeb 4 will skip the engine. When the complete submission run is complete, AddWeb 4 will display a window which shows you which engines were skipped because of rule violation, and why.

AddWeb 4 will assist you in building pages designed to perform well on the search engines by not overwhelming them with too many keywords and irresponsible keyword repetition. We extensively research search engines and constantly learn what kind of pages are typically performing the best with each of them. Engaging in keyword spamming will harm your positioning.

Again, part of our anti-spam measures rely on your honesty. If you lie to the software, in the end you will only end up hurting yourself as the engines will very likely ban your website from their indices.


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