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ARTICLE: TIPS & TRICKS BE A REGISTRATION REGULAR / July 21, 1999 One of the most common misconceptions about search engine registration is you only need to do it once. This is simply not true. Many search engines may revisit your site to update the listing, but that process may take months. The best way to ensure that your listing is current is to register your site on a regular schedule. Keeping into consideration the 2 to 4 weeks it generally takes for a search engine to process a re- registration request we recommend re-registering no more than monthly. Re-registering to often, such as daily, may cause negative registration effects-stick to a monthly schedule unless the site has gone through major redesign and content changes. Please note if you are a paid !Register-It! user re-registration is included at no additional charge for one year from the original date of purchase. Simply login to your account, select to service the URL you wish to re-register than select the re- regsiter option. METRICS WHO'S GOT THE VOLUME? Studies show that the extent to which search engines can index the web is dropping. A 1998 study by NEC Research Institute found that one third of the Web was indexed by search engines but the 1999 numbers have dropped to one sixth of the Web! So who has the volume of indexed Web pages available for searching? Search Engine: Volume of the web indexed by percentage: Northern Light 15.5 % Snap 15.5 % AltaVista 15.5 % HotBot 99 11.3 % HotBot 98 34 % Microsoft 8 % Infoseek 8 % Google 7.8 % Yahoo! 7.4 % Excite 5.6 % Lycos 2.5 % Euroseek 2.2 % How long does it take for a site to be indexed? The study found on average it takes 6 months to be indexed by a search engine. It was suggested that the cost of maintaining larger databases is why search engines have relatively low indexing figures. Data provided by NUA Internet Surveys http://www.nua.ie