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Adding Pages or URLs to the Index




Please submit only one URL. The Intranet crawler, Scooter, will eventually explore your entire site by following links.
If the page is successfully fetched, it is added to the index. It should be available for queries typically in a day or two.
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 Web Page.
Remember that URLs are case-sensitive, and please check your spelling.

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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