JimWorld Gazette Issue #37 01/16/1998

Gazette - Issue #37 - January 16, 1998

-- Housekeeping
-- Surfing The Net Without Electricity
-- Still Going Strong (And Dumb)
-- What Are Search Engine Entry Pages
-- Tips From The Hitman - Part XXI
-- Standing Out In This Crowd - Part II
-- Another Voice On Learning HTML
-- New Top Level Domains Coming
-- Snippets

Link to this issue of the Gazette as http://gazetteworld.com/go/to.cgi?l=g37

HOUSEKEEPING

We want to welcome the members of the Submit URL newsletter mailing list to the Gazette. Hayden, our intrepid reporter, also operates the Submit URL service and because of his workload writing for the Gazette, he had not put out a Submit URL newsletter in a LONG TIME. So we have assumed the responsibility of distributing the Submit URL news once a month or so.

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Time for the Gazeteers to saddle up and ride to victory! I got this in the mail this week, and I really want to win. Every vote counts, so don't forget.

> Congratulations!
>
> Your site (VirtualPROMOTE) has been selected as one of the
> 32 finalists in the annual Surfers Choice Site of The Year voting.

Voting is taking place at <http://surferschoice.trigger.net/vote.htm>

Be sure to vote for 7 sites from the 32 presented. There are some really outstanding sites in the running and you will learn a lot about site design and content development just by visiting the nominees.

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Many of you who were around a few months ago during the annual PointCast Viewers Choice Awards voting will be especially interested to see this latest development. You'll recall that the Gazette to top honors in that voting, mostly due to the Gazette subscribers. Well, this week PointCast sent me the following message:

"Hi Jim,
I wanted to let you know PointCast's Connection Critic recently reviewed your Connection and the review is now running in the PointCast Viewpoints Connection and on the ViewPoints web site. You can take a look at the article by going to <http://www.pointcast.com/viewpoints2/connections/index.shtml>"

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We have a whole new group of banners and graphics created for us by Karen Brutke cyberhawk@turnersaith.com>

I was so impressed by her work when I visited her site, I asked her to create some new banners for JimWorld. She did, and they are great. You can check them out at <http://jimworld.com/howtolink.html>

Visit Karen at <http://katekreates.com/> and have her create some banners for you.

In keeping with my ongoing theme that you should be promoting individual pages or subsections of your site, and not just the site as a whole, each of these banners promotes a different tutorial on the main sites. Women's sites. Meta Tags and Winning Awards.

SURFING THE INTERNET WITHOUT ELECTRICITY

Hi Jim,

I just wanted to thank you for your web site! I have a story to share with you.... I live in downtown Montreal. If you've been following the recent news, we've been hit with the worst natural disaster in Canadian history. Living right downtown, I was one of the more fortunate ones and got my power back on Sunday evening.

After being shut off from the world - aside from a couple of local radio stations for a week and calls from friends - I decided to search the Internet to see what sites had been set up about the Ice Storm. To my surprise, I found nothing. Or at least nothing of value.

Dealing with intermittent electricity, I put together a site in about 4 hrs. The joys of doing this from a notebook computer with a tiny keyboard! I finally had the site uploaded by midnight. I mentioned it to a few people and on one of the discussion groups I was on. I then went through some of your tips. Your lists saved me one heck of a lot of time when I was in such a hurry to get the word out.

Well, we should finish off the first 24 hours with around 1,000 visits to our main page. (I've been too busy since then to have a look at my logs to see the number of unique visitors.) Yahoo featured the site on today's news - in a prime position. I've received word from a dozen other major sites that they will be mentioning our "Montreal Ice Storm '98 Report Site" in the next couple of days.

I realized something in doing all of this: if you really take the time to handle individual contacts with the major search engines, directories and online news sources, it will pay off.

Oh! If you want to visit the site, it's at <http://www.info-4-you.com>

Thanks again for the great resource!

Sharon Tucci

STILL GOING STRONG (AND DUMB)

It must be getting close to the silly season again because some old things have crawled out from under their rock and trying to get a few rays from the sun. This particular low-life form is the old scare tactic gag about a computer virus. If you get something like the following, just ignore it. Don't put the warning in your newsletter. Don't send it out as a special edition to all of your subscribers.

Think those things could never happen? Those are just a few of the reactions I have seen on the web. People jump in and embarrass themselves while meaning to be helpful.

Here's an example of how the scam goes:

>FRIENDLY WARNING!
>>
>>If you receive an email titled "JOIN THE CREW" DO NOT open it.
>>It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter out
>>to as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious virus
>>and not many people know about it. This information was received
>>yesterday morning from IBM; please share it with everyone that
>>might access the internet. Once again, pass this along to EVERYONE
>>in your address book so that this may be stopped.
>>
>> Also, do not open or even look at any mail that says "RETURNED OR
>>UNABLE TO DELIVER" This virus will attach itself to your computer
>>components and render them useless. Immediately delete any mail
>>items that say this.
>>
>>AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO

>>remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary measures and
>>forward this to all your online friends ASAP

The above IS A HOAX. I just wanted to make that clear. Do you really think that IBM and AOL needed to turn to this bozo to get the word out about a virus? Yeh, right. The other tip-off in the message is the claim of permanent damage to you computer hardware from opening a file. Cute trick.

The plea to send this along to all of you friends is another tip-off. Is there anybody alive that really believes that there are no news services to publish this message to every person on Earth, if it were true?

If you publish a newsletter, please include a warning to your readers to not be fooled by this new round of foolishness. Newcomers to the web are especially vulnerable to this type of hoax, Technology has enough trouble overcoming the resistance of the unconverted, so reach out to them with the voice of reason.

Just so you don't misunderstand, I am not saying that there are no computer viruses out there. There are. But you would probably find a mention of them on CNN, MSNBC, ZDnet, or one of the other of the thousands of news sites looking for material to publish. They probably wouldn't turn to an email chain letter to get the word out.

By the way, I know it is time for me to write about this subject yet again because I got the above message emailed to me by a Gazeteer.

WHAT ARE SEARCH ENGINE ENTRY PAGES?

"Entry Page" is a term we use to describe a page that points visitors to your main web site. These types of pages are intentionally optimized to obtain a high "relevancy" score on specific search engines. As such, they are used as a primary entry point to your site. We could reword this and call them "highly topic specific" pages or pointer pages and it would mean the same thing.

There are circumstances where search engines will do a very poor job of indexing your site due to the limitations of the search engines themselves. Prime examples of this are when your site depends on dynamically generated (cgi) pages and whenever your site uses frames or Java Script.

In these cases, it is advisable to create static pages that point to your main site. Another word for them is entry pages. These entry pages are designed specifically with search engine -- and customer -- "find-ability" in mind. Therefore, they are optimized to score high in a specific keyword or key phrase search. In some circumstances these pages may have only a single link that "points" to your main page -- often the case when pointer pages are very short in content and contain the "correct" keyword density and relevancy designed specifically for a particular search engine. Other times, the pointer pages can be a list of links to all of the content on your main site. It depends on what search engine you are designing the page to "fit" with. It can also depend on the diversity of products or services your site is offering.

"Pointer" or "entry" pages are usually designed to emphasize a single topic/keyword in order to keep the relevancy of the web page very high. In other words, if you happen to sell both Coke and Pepsi, you may find that it is not in your best interest to write about them equally on the same page. Equally representing the two on a single page can dilute the relevancy of the other and vice versa. End result being that a particular SE may score the page lower in a specific keyword search for either of them.

However if you design a page specifically about Pepsi, the engine will likely believe that the page is about Pepsi and therefore list it higher for that "keyword" than a page that has both keywords in it. You can also do the same for a page that talks exclusively about "Coke". Then you would provide a link from both of these pages to your "refreshment" site and allow visitors to enter this main portion of your site through either of these "entry" or "pointer" pages". By the way, you really don't need to set up different domains to do this. In most cases (except perhaps with Yahoo), you simply need to create different versions of the same page(s) and submit them to the different engines.

Here's the Procedure

Make your pages for the selected engines that focus on "pepsi" and call them pepsi.html, diet-pepsi.html, cold-pepsi.html and so on. These pages could link to anywhere in the site that you want, say "Pepsi Products", "Pepsi facts" or the main site page.
Then make pages for the "Coke" products the same way that you did for Pepsi. It is not necessary to design completely different sites for each engine; instead, create pages focused on the keywords that you are promoting. By doing so, your pointer pages will lead your prospects to the specific areas of your site they are most interested in.

To see a simple diagram of this, or to read this article in its entirety, go to <http://searchengine-news.com/gaz_001.htm>

It should be noted that pointer pages only have outgoing links -- you normally would not have any links leading to a pointer pages, only from them.

As was mentioned earlier, this technique is especially useful whenever frames style sites or dynamically generated (cgi) pages are being used... since search engines do a typically poor job of indexing and scoring these types of web pages. On the other hand, well designed pointer pages are often the pages that score highest on the search engines and they afford the added benefit of preventing your site visitors from inadvertently "dropping in" on your secondary pages where they might become confused with the navigation of your site.

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Article submitted by:
Stephen Mahaney & John Heard
Planet Ocean Communications <http://www.searchenginehelp.com/>
Reprinted from Volume I, Issue IX
The Search Engine Wars Update Newsletter, December, 1997

TIPS FROM THE HITMAN XXI

Last time out I spot lighted Infoseek as a part of the series I will continue to take a break every other week and focus on the individual differences of specific Search Engines. This week I will wrap up the keyword issue.

I would like to remind the reader that the items I mention in the "one size fits all" articles are intended to give you a better idea how the Search Engines work in general. Some items may or may not have any effect for a specific engine. The intent is to show how to build a good page that as a rule will do much better than the average page out there. I guess this is a crawl before you run approach, but understanding the basics is essential to the long term objective of fine tuning individual pages for each Search Engine.

I have covered use of keywords or keyword phrases in the title, and in the meta keyword and description tags. Now I will move into the body of the HTML document.

The rules for the body of the page are really fairly simple, and it would seem so logical that you might think it hardly needs mentioning. You want to use your keywords throughout your page, and use them often.

In posting over one thousand Web pages to the search engines and directories I have seen more pages than I can remember that did not contain the keywords the customer listed in the keyword section of the order form in the body of the page being listed. Before I learned it was in my best interest to point this out to customers, I would on occasion have a customer accuse me of not posting his page. They would send me an email saying something like "I checked all the Search Engines for my page and it is just not there". I would look up the job, and sure enough, there it was, a page with a title like ABC Manufacturing Homepage. The page would be loaded with graphics, no alt tags on the images and image map with a link to the pages with the product. Needless to say there would be no meta tags of course. So when they entered the search word "Left handed screw drivers" at the search engines, what do you know, the page could not be found! I would go to the search engine, type in ABC Manufacturing, and there they we re in the top 25 or so. The lesson here, is obvious. If the words that are important to you do not appear on the page, the Search Engine will not list your page for that search!

Having the keywords on the page is essential, but where they are will also affect the final position. The general rule is keywords should be in the first text that appears on the page, and important keywords should appear near the top of the page. Having the most important keywords appear in headline tags <H1> <H2> etc. will often give them a higher relevancy to the Search Engine.

One other major mistake I see so often is a Banner Exchange ad first on the page. When you do this the first words indexed by the Search Engine will be "Member of the Link Exchange" to use one of the most common examples. Banner exchanges are great, I use them, but not as the first thing the Search Engine reads at the top of the page! Pages like this will often show up with the description at the Search Engine proudly giving the name of the Banner Exchange as the first part of your page description.

Search engines will decide what keywords are important by where and how often they appear. This is what determines the relevancy rating for the keyword. This is why it is so important for your most essential keywords to be peppered from title to tags to body of the page. If the word appears in all these places it will be read as relevant to the page content and relevant to a search for that word.

Next, how often should a keyword be repeated in the body of the page? This is a tough one nowadays. The rules vary from one engine to the next. Alta Vista can penalize for a keyword appearing more than three or four times on the entire page, whereas you can get carried away at Northern Light without penalty. Use common sense, the page should read well and be informative. Writing with a conscious effort to use your keywords often and in context is good.

One last word on using keywords in your page layout. Do not overlook the image alt tag as a good place to include your keywords. Some of the Search Engines will index image alt tags, and it is just good practice and good HTML to use the alt tag on all images.

Next on the list will be an a closer look at Hot Bot, a Search Engine that is clawing it's way to the top in many of the Editor's Choice and other reviews.

Article By:
Hayden Mitchell
Web Themes http://www.webthemes.com

STANDING OUT IN THIS CROWD - PART II

This is part two of a series on Internet user demographics, analyzing the results of the eighth GVU survey.

In part one, we looked at the GVU survey methodology, and the limitation that places on the survey data. Different surveys use different methodologies that must be evaluated before data can be properly applied, and this is especially true of the GVU. This survey is, by its very methodology, self-selecting. It is, in my opinion, a highly biased survey of a small Internet community, but, it is a very important Internet community, and worth our consideration. Reviewing part one of this article, at <http://jimworld.com/gazettedecember19.html> will put the following analysis into context.

First of all, the GVU classifies Internet users as novice, intermediate or expert, based on Internet experience of: less than 1 year, 1 to 3 years, or more than 3 years, respectively. And, they cross-tabulate data by experience level.

So let's start with our number one pet peeve, speed. It's the number one complaint of survey respondents. Of expert users, 70% complain about speed, while 50% of novices do. It's no surprise, because half of all respondents report connection speeds of 33.6 kbps or less. And remember (from part one of this series), 80% of these respondents access the Internet daily - these are the Internet's USERS.

Only 14% of respondents report connection speeds of T1 or better, but 20% of respondents didn't know what their connection speed was. Most of this group who don't know their connection speed, (70%), are novices - on the Internet less than a year.

For expert users, 30% connect at T1 or better, while 46% connect at 33.6 or less. (Only 6% of this group didn't know their connection speed.) Keep in mind that some T1 connections with thousands of users and multiple corporate web sites make 33.6 look peppy. Just visit Microsoft.com - 27 T3's do not necessarily make a fast connection.

There's a real message here for web developers. Most of us should not be developing applications that require more than 33.6 kbps connections. The web's 30 second rule says you have that long to capture - or loose - your visitor's attention. (Of course this doesn't apply to all sites, or all types of sites, it's meant as a rule of thumb.) Doing the math, accounting for latency, etc., etc., you get about 64 K per page max. If you're on a slow server, cut it in half.

Well, let's get off of our collective pet peeve and get on to promoting our web sites.

What's the number one way "experts" find web sites? Links from other web sites. What's the number one way intermediate users find web sites? Links from other web sites. Novices? Yes, links from other web sites. So build your links.

Build links to your web site? How? Well, here's where I get to plug my new "LinkUp" discussion group. It's brand new, because I just thought of it, and it's available now. People looking for links join the discussion group. As a group member, you can send an e-mail to the group's address, and everyone in the group gets a copy of your e-mail. You tell a little bit about your web site, what you're looking for, and ask who wants to trade links. People can reply back to you, or to the group. When the group gets too active, we'll break it up into categories. To subscribe, e-mail listserver@CommerceStreet.com> and include "subscribe linkup " without the quotes, and with your name substituted in the part (not your e-mail, the e-mail address you send from will be subscribed).

What's the number two way experts, intermediate users and novices find web sites? Search engines. So get listed in search engines, lots of them. Get your description and Meta Tags right, and get good placement.

Get good search engine placement? How? See Jim Wilson at <http://jimworld.com>.

Next time (part three), we'll look at what kind of monitors your web sites are being displayed on. It matters, because sometimes we can't see your web site!

Paul Fuhrmeister is Vice President of CommerceStreet.com <http://www.CommerceStreet.com> where he has just started a new discussion group and needs subscribers. See above.

ANOTHER VOICE ON: LEARNING HTML

Hey Jim!

I've tried a few HTML editors in my time (as short as it is) but the only one that I've done any serious work with is called "HTML NotePad". This is a notepad like application but with one major difference... the menu commands include all normal notepad commands but added to that are commands specifically for HTML. I could go into describing all it's features but I wouldn't do it justice, suffice to say that not only can you do tables, lists and forms, etc. but also handles Netscape and Explorer extensions, both Java and Javascript, has an extensive help file and the version I've got (which is a bit old) is current to HTML 3.0.

It is stated that HTML NotePad is "designed for those people who have a working acquaintance with HTML" however, I should point out, it was with this application that I learned all of the HTML I know that enabled me to be able to produce the half baked excuse for a personal home page/web site. If you wish to see what I was able to come up with you can check it out at (don't be too harsh, I've been meaning to do some serious revamping for a while but events have restricted my ability to do much except read the Gazette! *grin* But I'm going to get it done soon...ish!): <http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/1599/>
In case you're wondering, I've nothing whatsoever to do with the company except as a user. I recommend you give it a try (it's got a thirty day evaluation period). Find it at: <http://www.cranial.com/software/htmlnote/>

Oh, before I forget, the other major part of my learning HTML was stealing code from other pages. Now, before you shake your head and tell me off, I'll explain why this has helped. What happens is I see something that I think will go well with something for my site. So I cut and paste the code for later use. I then study the code, muck around with it and find out why it does what it does. When I've learnt about it, I then use it on my site. Sometimes it's a big learning curve but I get there all the same! The Phantom - Call Phantom anywhere... He will hear!
<http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/1599>

---Thanks Phantom for this report. I've sent for a review copy of HTML NotePad and will let everybody know how it does. As to studying other people's code to learn-- how do you think the rest of us learned HTML? Same way.---

NEW TOP LEVEL DOMAINS COMING

In the beginning, there was nothing. And the National Science Foundation (NSF) caused Network Solutions to be brought forth. From this came chaos and frustration. But the end is in sight - and it is scary.

The NSF has overseen the administration of the Web forever. They empowered Network Solutions to have total control over the issuance of domain names in the .com, .edu and .net top level domains (TLDs). as of this March, the NSF will no longer be in control of the web, and Network Solutions and their alter ego Internic will no longer enjoy their historical monopoly in assigning domain names.

A complete new world wide system is being established that will allow anyone to begin issuing domain names. They can charge whatever they want for the service. They can be as competitive as they see fit.

While to many webmasters this looks like the answer to our prayers, there is a downside. Confusion and disaster may be lurking around the corner. With only one company, Network Solutions controlling the process things have been at least functional. With 88 new companies learning to do the same job, who knows what chaos they can create while learning their job?

Starting immediately, you may want to take steps to protect your trademark by registering you domain name in the other TLDs like .web and .stor.

Here are the first few paragraphs from the official press release: (Read the entire release at <http://www.gtld-mou.org/press/core-2.html>) The primary site is at <http://www.gtld-mou.org/> but it isn't very user-friendly unless you have an advanced degree in domain name registration.

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Global Organization Advances Cause of Deregulation, New Competition to Better Serve Internet Growth

The Internet Council of Registrars (CORE) today announced plans for the final testing of its Shared Registry System, followed by the introduction of its worldwide service to register new domain names on the Internet in March.

"This launches a new era of deregulation and competition, as envisioned by the Internet Society (ISOC), the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), the U.S. and other governments and worldwide organizations, which long ago identified the need for enhancement and expansion of the registry system," said Alan Hanson, chairman of the executive committee of CORE. "Users everywhere will soon have the freedom to choose their domain names and registrar, just as they choose their Internet service provider."

The servers in the CORE Shared Registry System (SRS) will be ready for full service by mid-February, Hanson said. For acceptance testing, CORE will conduct an immediate external audit of the system for security, backup and disaster recovery. All aspects of the system were designed to meet the specifications of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Hanson said CORE will initially administer a set of seven new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs): .firm, .shop, .web, .arts, .rec, .info and .nom.

(snip)

The 88 CORE registrars are in 23 countries, with 25 registrars in the United States. The breadth and depth of the organization ensures local service and responsiveness of the highest order -- something that has been missing from the existing generic Top Level Domain registration system. Through local registrars, the Internet will continue to grow as a vibrant grass roots phenomenon.

"CORE is supportive of growing competition because the ultimate success of anything on the Internet should be determined by the value it provides and the contributions it makes to the overall culture," Hanson said. "The Internet is perhaps the world's fastest testing ground for new services and ideas. If the users don't like it, they will simply leave."

SNIPPETS

The On Target Business Site Excellence Award <http://www.targetexpress.com/html/award.html> has been established to recognize business sites on the WWW that exemplify high standards of business ethics and practices, web site design and functionality, and, The Internet tradition of sharing and giving something back. Of all the awards that are given out to web sites, there are very, very few that specifically give recognition for business site excellence. If your site qualifies, submit for this one before it gets too busy. Just launched this week.

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PowerSearch is a new upcoming search engine and they have just now opened their AddURL feature to start inserting Webpages into the database. Go to <http://searchpower.hypermart.net/submit.htm> and submit your site information. PowerSearch is a public service offered by AddURL, a site promotion company. A directory run by a promotion service should get good traffic, so get over there and get into the data base.

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Gazeteer 'Virtual Bits & Bytes Software' <http://www.vbbsoft.com> has launched a new newsletter this week. The newsletter focuses on Web 'stuff' like hot sites, how-to, and where-to. Drop by and take a look. Good luck with this new zine VBBS.

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A little Gazette poem from Dottie Gruhler (The J.&D. Goods Company) at <http://www.netropolitanplaza.com>:

I sit all week,
knowing that,
my site will soon get better-
As I anticipate,
the coming of,
my precious Gazette newsletter!

Thanks for your dedication. Lord knows the rest of us need the help!

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Explore the Newest Internet, Intranet and World Wide Web Solutions! --Spring Internet World '98--

MecklerMedia announced Spring Internet World '98 conference which will be hosted at the Los Angeles Convention Center on March 9-13th, 1998 in Los Angeles, California.

Now in it's fifth year, Spring Internet World '98 has earned international distinction as the definitive Internet industry meeting place. More business and technical professionals have found more Internet solutions at Spring Internet World than anywhere else on Earth. It is where the largest Internet companies and the smallest start-ups come to give their best performances, and where industry insiders come to feel the pulse of the Internet.

For more information visit the Spring Internet World '98 site: <http://events.internet.com/spring98/>

If there is any way you can get to this show, you will be amazed at how much you can learn. Even just walking around the exhibits will arm you with ideas and tools for months to come.

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E-merchants who are keeping track of the proliferation of Free Email Service addresses will want to know about EasySpace <http://easyspace.com/> Just one more to add to your list.

If you are new to this list, we have had extensive discussion about ways to avoid being a victim of users of stolen and fraudulent credit cards. One very effective way is to NEVER take an order from anyone using a free email address. There is no way to identify who they really are. Anyone can set up hundreds of free email addresses without any chance that they can be identified.

The most vulnerable are online vendors of software. The only shipping address you have is the email address. So the credit card might be good, and you processing company may even approve the transaction and give you the money, but very soon the real owner of the card will complain and your merchant bank will take the money back from you. It's just the way things are. If you avoid the free email addresses, you will eliminate 99% of the fraudulent transactions.

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Web retailers had their best Christmas season yet, but online shopping still has a long way to go. AudetteMedia has launched a new e-mail discussion list that deals with online shopping issues from both the merchant and consumer perspectives.

I-Shop is moderated by Will Johnston, publisher of BuyDirectory, a leading online shopping directory. Will spends his time seeking out the best online storefronts, products and consumer opportunities, and scours the net for industry information related to online commerce for both merchants and consumers.

Subscriptions to I-Shop are free. For details visit <http://www.audettemedia.com/I-Shop/shop.html>

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Directly from the pen of a Product Support Engineer at Excite and WebCrawler, domains will only be allowed 25 pages in their database. There are a few exceptions, such as AOL, but for the rest - 25 is it. That means that you will most likely NOT get your free hosted site listed. There is no plan to change this as I have seen discussed in several discussion groups. While you might consider it unfair, it is the way things are. Time to get a domain name, isn't it?

One way around all of these restrictions placed on non-domain named sites is simply to get a domain name. And you don't have to give up you free server space. There are a lot of services available that will host your domain name (not your domain) and redirect the traffic anywhere you want it to go. Take a look at Name Secure <http://www.namesecure.com/services.htm> Try searching the search engines using 'domain name server'.

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If you are maintaining a craft oriented site, The Crafts Fair Online site has opened The Crafter's Web Development Center <http://www.craftsfaironline.com/CWDC/> Being loyal Gazeteers, of course their resource page listing everything you need to know about promoting a craft site only has one link - to JimWorld. You can also add you craft site to their Crafts Fair Online directory at <http://www.craftsfaironline.com>

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I've been getting a steady flow of pleas for help with pages vanishing from InfoSeek. Most of the ones I have checked out were not a spamming problem. Just fallout from the changes going on at InfoSeek. Just keep resubmitting your pages and they will eventually settle down over there.

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From a Gazeteer:

"The site I am working on is a community site for Nottinghamshire here in the UK, I have just put up two links pages and they are looking rather bare. Here is what I am after :

The first links page is to consist of links to other community sites around the world. Are there are any webmasters of community sites reading this who would like their site listed? If so please visit the <http://notts.net/community/> and complete the form.
The second links page is for sites of interest in the Nottinghamshire area. Do you own/maintain a site in Nottinghamshire? Would it be of general interest to the people of Nottinghamshire? if so please email me at webmaster@notts.net> with details of your site."

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The Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition will soon be ready to be drag-and-dropped onto the desktops of the world. Read all about it at <http://microsoft/misc/features.htm> This release finally delivers on Bill's promise to release the Internet Explorer 4.0 for the Mac. This is the first significant Mac Office release in three years. Some of the advanced features (like natural-language query support and self-healing applications) aren't even available on Windows yet. Cool. Could it be that the reported death of Mac was greatly exaggerated?

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Thunder Lizard Productions will be providing free email coverage of it's upcoming Web Advertising '98 conference, February 2-4 at the Marriot World Trade Center in New York City. Web Advertising '98 will present three days of in-depth information on how to make web ads work.

Richard Hoy and Cliff Kurtzman, co-moderators of the Online Advertising Discussion List, will be covering the event. Five reports will be issued directly from the conference floor, plus several more after the conference.

Attending Web Advertising '98 is a great way to keep up with industry trends, but this free coverage will be the next best thing to being there.

For complete conference details, visit: <http://www.thunderlizard.com/webad.html?IFRprsWATX>

Or, to sign up for the coverage, visit: <http://www.thunderlizard.com/wa_coverage.html?IFRprsWATX>