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Table of Contents
Basics
Advanced Help
Usenet
Add a Page
Frequently Asked
Questions

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Adding Pages or URLs to the Index
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Please submit only one URL.
The Intranet crawler, Scooter, will eventually explore your entire site by following links.
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If the page is successfully fetched,
it is added to the index. It should be available for queries typically in a day or two. |
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Do not submit a description or keywords
with a URL. To control the abstract served back with your page, use META tags. For details, refer to the help
topic Influencing How AltaVista Search Intranet Indexes Your
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Remember that URLs are case-sensitive,
and please check your spelling.
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Removing Pages or URLs from the Index
To remove a bad link from the index, simply resubmit the URL. All URLs that return a status code of 404 ("Not Found") are removed from the index within a day or two of being submitted.
To remove a page that does exist from the index, it will be necessary to write a robots.txt file for the site.
To exclude all pages of a site from the index, it will be necessary to write a robots.txt file for the site.
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