how hard is it to get listed in ask.com

[sammyb445]

I was wondering how long it takes to get listed at ask.
my site was picked up by google and yahoo realy fast, only 3 days.
alot of other seach engines too but not on ask.com

[Wit]

Ask really takes a long time, Sam.

Have you head of Google's Sandbox? Well, Ask's is even worse

[iolv]

Have you head of Google's Sandbox? Well, Ask's is even worse

Agree with you on that http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#18

[kevingibbons]

Easy, if your sites at least 5 years old!

[seojunkie]

Getting indexed in Ask?
It's easy. Get a handful of links from topical blogs and sites. Be patient.

Getting ranked in Ask?
I dont think it's worth the effort.

[seokeo]

I dont think it's worth the effort.

why do you feel so?

[appraisal57]

Is Ask worth getting on? Does anyone know the volume ask has versus other search engines?

[cianuro]

Hi, new here and just thought I'd chime in.
We get 1% of our overall SE traffic from ask. That volume really isn't worth much effort at all.

[vvvilela]

Is Ask worth getting on? Does anyone know the volume ask has versus other search engines?

Today, Ask is in position 206 in www.alexa.com. Google is 3rd, Open Directory (dmoz.org) is 212th.

Alexa seems to be a good guide for such decisions.

[cianuro]

Using google analytics and goal monitoring, it should be noted that over 5 of our sites in the past 3 months, not ONE SINGLE visitor from ask has converted.

We are constantly split testing and multi variant testing and this just goes to show that ask has not got the ORGANIC volume. We do not run any PPC campaigns with Ask but that may be a different story.