Finding Binley Woods On-line
Although Binley Woods On-line has been publicised within the village, and is linked-to from other web-sites, many
people find Binley Woods On-line through one or other of the many 'search engines' that exist. Listing on a search
engine can occur in a number of ways. In some cases, web-sites are submitted by their owners - Binley Woods On-line
was submitted to several when it was first launched. Many search engines have automated programmes that scour the
internet for new and updated web-sites. Others also accept submissions that are paid
for by their owners. This often guarantees fast inclusion and can include a prominent place in the listing.
Whilst Binley Woods On-line has been submitted to various search engines, it has not paid for listing and it
is therefore interesting to see how it is ranked. Binley Woods On-line is the top ranked Binley
Woods web-site with a number of search engines. Below are the results for a search on Sunday 29 August 2010. The
previous four weeks positions are shown in brackets, most recent first.
1 (1, 1, 1, 1) Alta Vista
1 (1, 1, 1, 1) Ask Jeeves*
1 (1, 1, 1, 1) Bing
1 (1, 1, 1, 1) Excite*
1 (1, 1, 1, 1) Google*
1 (1, 1, 1, 1) WebCrawler*
1 (1, 1, 1, 1) Yahoo*
2 (2, 1, 1, 1) Open Directory Project
7 (7, 7, 7, 7) Lycos*
# indicates that the search engine could not be accessed.
* Most search engines include "paid for" listings, mainly irrelevant advertising, ahead of others. Binley Woods On-line is often
the first non-"paid for" listing. Because the number of "paid for" listings (also called "Sponsored Sites") changes periodically,
these are excluded in determining Binley Woods On-line's position where there are non-sponsored sites on the results page. The position shown
above is the position in excluding "paid for" sites.
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