The referer logs are working now. Go to the listowners page and follow the links. The keywords section will give you an idea of the sorts of things people are using to find your sites... f'rinstance, someone doing a Yahoo search for "symbols of hate" ended up in a Sylvrstorm page. (Okay, so sometimes search engines are stoned. I'm going to see about keeping them out of the transitory Mhonarc archives from now on.) -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
At 01:56 AM 5/9/99, you wrote: *snip* >Incidentally, does anyone know how to get a site listed with Yahoo? Not >that it's really important, since my site (in Geocities) is really just for >the players and lurkers in my game; but I've tried a few times to get sites >listed with Yahoo and never succeeded. I've always filled out all their >forms and been careful to select the correct place for it and follow all >their instructions, but I've never gotten a site listed or received any >indication why not. Like I said, not really important, but a bit of a pet >peeve. > >Kevin Tisserand >SylvrStorm Dungeon Master Forget about it and get it listed elsewhere. From my understanding and what I've heard, Yahoo is very 'cliquey.' Apparently, it can be on a whim whether you are listed or not. If you submit twice, they just toss it out from then on. I suppose if you offer them a cash incentive, that might grease the wheels ;p ********************************************************************* * Frank Wallen * 'In Paris they simply stared when * * (mailto:mrdim@excell.net) * I spoke to them in French; I never * * Reft Sector Islands at: * did succeed in making those idiots * * http://www.excell.net/mrdim/ * understand their language.' * * * - Mark Twain * ********************************************************************* -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
On 9 May 99, at 1:56, Audrey & Kevin Tisserand wrote: > For those of you who are now thinking I'm running some kind of twisted game > involving "symbols of hate", it was actually just a fluke. I tried a Yahoo > search using that with the quotes, and did not get anything related to > SylvrStorm. Turns out that when you do the search without the quotes, it > picks up one of the SylvrStorm archive pages where the subject line of a > player's post included the word "symbols" (he was investigating some > mystical symbols he'd seen). There was nothing about "hate" in it at all. > I have no idea why this comes in at 4th place out of 8544 hits. Go figure. That's okay, "vampire sex" got to the Albuquerque After Dark page. :} (As long as "animal sex" doesn't get to Westwind, I suppse we're all right...) > Incidentally, does anyone know how to get a site listed with Yahoo? Not > that it's really important, since my site (in Geocities) is really just for > the players and lurkers in my game; but I've tried a few times to get sites > listed with Yahoo and never succeeded. I've always filled out all their > forms and been careful to select the correct place for it and follow all > their instructions, but I've never gotten a site listed or received any > indication why not. Like I said, not really important, but a bit of a pet > peeve. I suspect Geocities pages are too transient for them to index. -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net The Dog Ate My Sketchbook: http://silver.phoenyx.net/ -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
On 10 May 99, at 11:07, Audrey & Kevin Tisserand wrote:
> I thought of that too, but the site for the Phoenyx hosted game that I'm a
> player in (Master of the Desert Nomads) is listed in Yahoo, and it's also a
> Geocities site. Maybe they got stricter during the interval between the two
> games' start dates. Whatever.
(text width cranked way out to display lynx pages)
Ah. Well, poking about on the pages in question, I think I can tell you another hint. Here is the
beginning page for one:
Master of the Desert Nomads Home Page (p1 of 4)
[1]GeoCities Rank My Site Take A Tour My Guestbook [2]Chat
[3]Pages Like Mine [4]Search [5]Send This Page [6]Forums [7]Email Me
[8]Area51
IFRAME:
[9]http://adforce.imgis.com/?adiframe|2.0|25|11616|1|1|key=none;misc=243586540;loc=600;targ
et=top
[10]GeoGuide AD
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[11]Click here for menu [12][LINK]
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Master of the Desert Nomads
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Welcome to the home page of the [13]Master of the Desert Nomads play by eMail game. This
game is set in the magical world of Mystara, the fantasy setting for the original role
playing game Dungeons and Dragons. This page contains details of events and information of
interest to the current players of the game.
Rumours abound that a large army has been gathered to the far west in the Great Waste.
Spies report massive armies gathering and although only the Republic of Darokin is
immediately threatened, should they fall, the Duchy will be next and a general call to arms
has been issued to march to the aid of the republic.
Drawn to the trouble brave adventurers find themselves crossing the scorching wastes of
unknown deserts in a valiant attempt to prevent the known world falling under the evil of
the mysterious "Master".
Click [14]HERE to find out more and join the list.
And here is the opening web page for t'other:
SylvrStorm (p1 of 3)
SylvrStorm
SylvrStorm Pages
* [1]Rules System
* [2]Posting Requirements
* [3]Game Mechanics
* [4]Playing Guidelines
* [5]Campaign Style
* [6]New Characters
* [7]World Information
* [8]Characters
* [9]The Story So Far
* [10]Lore
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Administrivia
* [11]Site Map
[12]Email the DM
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Mailing Host Site
* [13]Phoenyx
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Other PBEM Sites
* [14]Lightning Games
* [15]Desert Nomads
* [16]Primal Grit
* [17]Game Announcements
* [18]PBEM tools
That's a Lynx screen dump. Pretend you're an overworked Yahoovian pagegrinder assigned to
make sure that what is submitted matches its description. How hard are *you* going to look for
content on the 400,000 web pages you have to review?
--
Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net
The Dog Ate My Sketchbook: http://silver.phoenyx.net/
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