Re: UKNM: Search engine submission software

[Chris Thomas]

On 21 Sep 2000, at 10:57,

Lois621836aol [dot] com

 wrote:


> Has anyone used Addweb for submitting to search engines? If so whats

> your opinion of it or can anyone recommend another product???


Yes, we've got Addweb 3.34 standard. It's fairly customisable, allows 

you to set up various website profiles (so you can submit several  

separate sets of site details in succession), and lets you submit to 

all or a subset of the sites in it's database (currently 386000 of 

them!).


It's got a nifty auto update feature, that checks the Cyberspace (the 

authors) website, and informs you of database changes.


However, it's got a habit of crashing in the middle of a submission 

run, and forcing you to start again from scratch. This is bad, 

because some sites will DELETE you from their database if you send 

more than one submission within a predetermined time scale.


I tend to submit to a few hundered sites at a time - a lengthy 

process of selecting a few, and remembering where I'd got to.


I've just downloaded the latest update, and there's mention of bug 

fixes, but it remains to see if they've implemented my suggestion of 

simply saving the submission run's progress to disk. The email 

support is friendly, if a little slow to get going, but when you're 

in a dialog with one of the support staff, they're quite good.


Chris's-amazing-software-review-mark-out-of-ten: 6/10


Oh, I didn't do much research before buying this software, so there 

may be better stuff out there. It's fairly cheap though.


Chris.


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