Getting Indexed by Ask.com or Teoma
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Hey Everyone.
I cannot figure out why getting indexed by Ask.com or Teoma is so difficult! There is precious little in the form of information on the ask.com website. With a little investigation and perseverance, I was able to read their information on their “Website Crawler FAQ” page which led me to this webpage: http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml
Ask reportedly suggests to webmasters that use of the sitemap protocol 
as the preferred method. Arghhh! Why must they make things so difficult. I have two websites, danieltetreault.com and uniqueplrproducts.com. My personal weblog or blog is in the Ask/Teoma index but not my direct marketing website, uniquePLRproducts.com.
This begs the question, “Why is one of my websites in the Ask.com search engine and not the other?” I found the question on the webmaster FAQ page at Ask. Here it is:
Q: Why has the Ask crawler not visited my URL?
A: If the Ask crawler has not visited your URL, it is because we did not discover any link to that URL from other pages (URLs) we visited.
I used to wonder, “How do you know if your website has been indexed by a search engine?” The best way to determine if the Ask Website Crawler has visited your website on the world wide web is to enter the domain name in the Ask.com search engine box:
So that is what I did and I found that my danieltetreault.com website was included in the Ask database/index AND when using the keywords “Daniel Tetreault”, the SERP provided a #1 position on page one along with one other entry. Interestingly enough the second of two urls listed for the keywords “daniel tetreault” listed another website that was a blog that I commented on some time ago - not to mention the link provided was an HREF or anchor text that Ask.com cites above.
Therefore, this concludes that one of the best or easiest way to get listed on the Ask.com database and indexed to be found on the SERP is to have your link posted on another website that is already indexed by the Ask/Teoma webcrawler. Go to the Ask home page and enter one of your web site’s main keyword. Then look through the Ask SERP page for a blog. Then click on the “VIEW” menu on your browser and select the “Source” tab on MSN’s Internet Explorer or the “Page Source” tab for the Mozilla web browser. Then I press the “Control”+”F” to pull up the find and locate feature to determine if the website uses the “nofollow” attribute to their blog entries (it’s pointless to comment on blogs if this attribute is used as the crawlers will not follow the hypertext links in the anchor text). Otherwise, if you have your own Blogger or Wordpress blog, you can try putting your link with HREF anchor text in as well.
Conclusion: since my danieltetreault.com website is in the Ask.com or Teoma index, the obvious trick would be to place my uniquePLRproducts.com website url in an HREF hypertext link within an anchor text. I will keep everyone posted on how things go.
Daniel.