Monday, July 02, 2007<\/p>\n
\n In the Dutch market, the concept of so-called ‘startpages’ is hugely popular. In this article we
\n will give some background information on them, and give those of you who may be startpage
\n webmasters a few tips on how to create unique and informative startpages.\n<\/p>\n
\n Basically, it’s a webpage with a lot of links about a specific topic. The startpages are hosted
\n on a startpage domain and each separate startpage is maintained by an individual webmaster. The
\n links on startpages are usually ordered by categories related to the topic of the page. Besides
\n hyperlinks, startpages often contain text, animations and pictures. Startpages are quite unique
\n to the Dutch market, and offer a simple interface for novice users to create their own web
\n portals, with a unique approach to user-generated content.\n<\/p>\n
\n The whole startpage concept began in September 1998 with the launch of Startpagina.nl, which was
\n set up to be an online linkbook for the inexperienced Internet user. Since then, Startpagina.nl
\n has become a huge success, mainly because an enormous number of volunteers created and maintained
\n the different startpages covering lots of interesting and diverse topics. Since Startpagina.nl
\n emerged, lots of other startpage domains have been created, and are still being created today.
\n The fact that there are still new startpage domains appearing and that the number of individual
\n startpages on these domains is still increasing shows the continued popularity of startpages in
\n the Dutch market.\n<\/p>\n
\n As a search engine, we love to have useful and diverse pages showing up in the search results we
\n present to our users. We thought it would be a good idea to highlight some of the best practices
\n we’ve seen in creating value-added startpages.\n<\/p>\n
\n With this post, we hope to have provided potential startpage webmasters with some helpful
\n guidelines that will help to create the type of startpages the Dutch speaking people love!\n<\/p>\n
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\n paid links form<\/a>
\n if you come across a startpage that is involved in buying and selling links for the purpose of
\n search engine manipulation. To report other forms of bad behavior, you can send a
\n spam report<\/a>. We’ll review each report
\n we get and use this feedback to enhance our algorithms and improve our search results. As always,
\n we really appreciate your feedback and your help to provide the best search experience.\n<\/p>\n