Webmaster Guidelines for Search Engines and Directories

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GoogleGoogle Webmaster Guidelines

"Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site, which is the best way to ensure you'll be included in Google's results.

Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index.

Once a site has been removed, it will no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google's partner sites."

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Live SearchLive Search Guidelines for Webmasters

"The best way to attract users to your site, and keep them coming back, is to populate your pages with quality content that users are interested in. MSNBot and other Web crawlers can help by making your site available to a broader audience.

We've provided recommendations that may help MSNBot and other Web crawlers effectively index your site. We've also provided a list of items and techniques that MSN Search discourages."

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dmoz LogoOpen Directory Editorial Guidelines

"The ODP's goal is two fold: to create the most comprehensive and definitive directory of the Web, and to create a high quality, content rich resource that the general public considers useful and indispensable. In short, editors should select quality sites and lots of them.

Remember, no site is guaranteed a listing in the Open Directory, and we depend on editors to use their own discretion. In short, we ask that editors maintain editorial integrity, keep the ODP's broader goals and mission in mind, and always employ good common sense."

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Yahoo! SearchYahoo! Search Site Guidelines

"Yahoo! strives to provide the best search experience on the Web by directing searchers to high quality and relevant web content in response to a search query.

Yahoo!'s Site Guidelines are designed to ensure that poor quality pages do not degrade the user experience in any way."

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Yahoo! Search Marketing LogoYahoo Search Submit Content Guidelines

"Yahoo's Search Submit program strives to provide the best search experience on the Web by directing searchers to high-quality and relevant Web content in response to a search query.

Unfortunately, not all web pages contain information that is valuable to a user. Some pages are created deliberately to trick the search engine into offering inappropriate, redundant or poor quality search results; this is often called "spam." Yahoo! does not want these pages in the index."

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Last modified: 2008-01-20T19:55:19-0800

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