When comparing web sites, you really have to read between the lines in order to really understand what you are getting for your money. All of the above are extremely important if you want to have any chance at all in having your web site become a generator of business. The problem is that in most cases only 3 or 4 of the above are covered by the monthly fee charged by webmasters and real estate web site providers. There is some important new information in the forum regarding linking your site for optimum search engine positioning. Members have to register first before they can access the forum.
Real estate has just as bad a reputation as porn sites when it comes to spamming search engines.
Right now they are only checking pages on submission and not pages already in the index - so the simple short term strategy is not to submit any pages to AltaVista that may be seen as spam. Also, do not resubmit pages that are already in the index but have not changed. That means you should discontinue any automatic monthly submission service you are using. The long term strategy should be to clean up any spam in your web site and rely on good content and not tricks to achieve good search engine positioning. Infoseek, in their efforts to combat spam, have employed a similar strategy.