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« on: August 02, 2007, 05:26:58 PM »

I have right now 13 sites that I am promoting, mine or clients.  Which have 1487 pages collectively indexed in Google.

OF those 13 sites, I have 2 indexed pages in Ask.com.

Now, I'm no master SEO or Designer..but my stuff is pretty solid, and I have some sites kicking ass on Google, Yahoo and others...with no action on Ask.

I was told in here that links from sites in Ask's index were required for Ask...however my sites are linked very well with some nice Ask indexed authoritative links since the end of May beginning of June.  Including in this forum as was suggested.  As a matter of fact one of the 2 pages that Ask did index is a Blog post  This one.  Which I do think is a quality post and deserving, has since day 1 contained a link to my main site which is older and has not been indexed...with 1270 backlinks in Google Webmaster Tools.  I also used the sitemap ping tool for all the sites.
 
So Ask.com spends money advertising on radio and television....Vastly improves their search engine....and show ZERO rise as a result in their market share of searches.  

WHY................they don't crawl and index enough!

So what the heck?  I suspect I will just forget about them!

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« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2007, 11:24:52 PM »

All your sites running blogs? I dunno but i think ask values them.  All the sites i am promoting are in ask.  its worth a punt.  I need to push these sites some more tho i'm not ranking first for the keywords i'm using yet but give it some time Smiley.
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« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2007, 01:28:17 AM »

3 of them have blogs the rest do not.....

They are completly ignoring sites that are killing serps in Google and Yahoo with great links, I guess I just don't get it.  :cry:
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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2007, 12:55:58 PM »

I think that Ask should change its name to "whaaa?"! it's just useless, you always get irrelevant content.
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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2007, 12:59:05 PM »

I have tried every trick I know when it comes to Ask - the daft thing is once you are listed you stay there - but getting there --- years
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« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2007, 01:39:23 PM »

They are advertising that they are the different search engine that every body needs.
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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2007, 01:42:36 PM »

Then they ought to send a member of staff into this forum Smiley
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2007, 01:53:42 PM »

Well...I duuno WTF

But ALL of my sites are indexed now  :?

They are just screwballs
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« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2007, 02:30:25 PM »

Ask always has been the screw ball of all search engines.
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« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2007, 02:55:31 PM »

LOL...and I fretted for this?

#7. ask
(8 Visits)  (1.12 Pages)  (00:00:00 Time) (0.00% New) 100.00% (Bounce)

That's out of 1104 SE visits! I get better action from AOL.  :lol:

They ranked me about the same as Google for this site except for 1 query..and this one pisses me off!  The sites above me, are crap.  They have no SEO, they are coming to me for help, and they are nice people...but they are trny page designers...Look at this one http://www. scdesignz2 .com/ ranked above me #1 actually for "myleague pages", and she has NO DAMN CONTENT on that page.

Keyword in text 1x, in title 1x, keyword tag 1x, and a thoroughly STUFFED description. The Title relevance is 33% and keywords 44%..Mine are 100 & 100

Can't be links either I have 5x as many. My G link pop is 295 hers is 60.

Like I said, I like her, have actually been helping her out...but DAMN! She is nowhere to be found in Google. I gave her a link, and I will feature her next month in the designers spot.  She gave me a link back, but I asked that she nofollow it.  

The thing is I don't even care that she is above me, its the lack of any tangible ranking perspective on the part of Ask that bugs me.  My site is top 10 Y, G, and MSN...plus  Alta, Aol, and Dogpile for almost all of its terms....They can't ALL be wrong and Ask is right.  Her sight is still invisible to all of these engines except, MSN where I am #1 and she is 5, and mamma where they seem to be showing Ask's results exactly.

What does Ask look at? Keyword tag?  Title?  I dunno..they still suck!

I don't really care except that there doesnt seem to be any rhyme or reason to how they rank and index sites. It's no wonder they provide so little traffic and cannot make a dent in their market share even by dumping millions of dollars in advertising....Maybe they should put some dollars in technology?

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« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2007, 04:02:33 PM »

You have to admit that the ads are pretty funny to watch.  :lol:
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« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2007, 04:12:02 PM »

Indeed!
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« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2007, 04:18:20 PM »

Wonder how long they can keep up with all those ads?
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« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2008, 03:32:18 AM »

I have tried every trick I know when it comes to Ask - the daft thing is once you are listed you stay there - but getting there --- years

Oh men, thats how bad ASK.com is?? Oh men
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« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2008, 12:21:19 PM »

oh relaxx guys!!..take it easy...well ask.com is quite nice.
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