How to get a high search engine ranking on Teoma / Ask Jeeves.

As a relatively new search engine on the market, Teoma has received good reviews for the quality of relevant search results that it provides. Since being acquired by Ask Jeeves in 2002, Teoma is now the source of web listings on the Ask Jeeves network, being displayed below the initial editorial suggestions.

Like Inktomi, the main way to get listed on Teoma is through their paid inclusion programme. It is possible that a site may get indexed by Teoma in time, through its regular crawling of the web, but to ensure a quick listing on this tool means paying for it.

Submitting a site to Teoma.

The paid inclusion service on Teoma can be found from the search engine's main domain or via Ask Jeeves. The cost is $30 for the first page submitted and $18 for each subsequent page. Listed pages are re-indexed each week for a year.

Factors to consider for a high search engine ranking on Teoma.

Teoma provides a powerful combination of internal and external factors to determine a site's ranking position. It uses the traditional content criteria used by all the key search engines, but has also developed the link popularity elements pioneered by Google to identify groups of related sites and their relative popularity and relevance.

Factors to consider to achieve a high ranking include:

• Keywords used within the Title tag and Description metatag
  
• Page content, position and emphasis of keywords
  
• The 'theme' of the site, including the number of pages indexed and the use of keywords throughout
  
• The number of inbound hyperlinks from other relevant and quality websites.

To find out how your website can achieve a top ranking on Teoma and the other top search engines, contact the web search workshop for more information or request a FREE site assessment to see how well your website currently performs.

A brief history of the Teoma search engine.

Learn more about getting a high ranking on the other main search engines: AltaVista, FAST, Google, HotBot, Inktomi and Lycos.

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