DEMSES - Notes about using it

DEMSES - Demses Web Visitors Statistics

Things to Keep in Mind When Using DEMSES

DEMSES immediately tries to submit a URL (web page) to several Search Engines and determine if the submission was successful. Because of this, you have to wait for several things to happen before the program generates its output.

The site running the program has to access each of the search engines' submission pages, and some of the search engines try to access the submitted URL before determining if the submission was successful. How quickly the program runs depends on how quickly these various connections are made.

The program has been set up with 'sensible' defaults to wait for the Search Engine responses. It will time-out if it takes too long to get a reply, and the submission will be considered not successful. If it did not time out, it would stop at a particular submission, and not submit the others in the queue.

After the submission has been made you can look through the email report or through the previous submission file to see if there are any errors encountered in submitting the sites. If there are errors, you can either submit the site by hand to those search engines that did not accept it, or check the detailed output for any problems reported by the search engine about why a particular submission didn't work.

DEMSES tries hard to find out those search engines' policies on automated submissions. Irrational as it may seem, you may find that some sites will refuse to take such automated submissions, and that for some sites (for example Yahoo) it is almost impossible to automatically submit a page.