My site has been up and running for over a year now, and receives #1 rankings in Google, Yahoo and other search engines for my main keyword, but nothing from Ask. Anyone know how long it can take to be indexed by Ask, and how long to show up in their search results?
Ask.com is a mystery to me. One of my sites got indexed in a month. The other one has been around for over 6 months and still it has not been indexed. When I do a search for the domain name, it picks up the links on other related sites, but the not site itself. It's a crappy search engine.
It's decent for bidding on traffic. Cheaper by a lot than AdSense. But yeah. Ask Jeeves decided to fight search engine spam by pretty much freezing their index. It's the only SE I can't make it into in under a week. In fact, I can't get in at all. EDIT: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask.com#Toolbar - They have a toolbar, that wikipedia says includes spyware? How much you wanna bet that factors into indexing? Although, they do claim (dl.ask.com/toolbar/moz/faq.html#na5) it doesn't report back. To which I declare shenanigans. PS: Sorry for the lack of live linking, I can't yet. EDIT2(I'm on fire): "Direct Hit which was purchased back in 1999 by Ask, uses click data to determine relevancy for rank. So the more clicks, the higher the click popularity, the higher a page would rank." - Apparently this algorithm is dead though, after being spammed shitless. The NEWER engine, on which Ask is still supposedly based, Teoma, is a subject-specifc link popularity algorithm. So to rank on it, sites of similar topic and content need to be linking to your site. This is interesting, because it demolishes link spamming, and Web Directory submission, and most bulk link exchanges. HOWEVER, they own bloglines.com, so getting a few blogs there might be an easy in (at least if they handle it like google does blogspot)