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Lycos

Lycos Notes:

• Lycos is one of the largest, leading Internet companies in the world, operating in 42 countries and 19 languages.

Lycos Results:

• Lycos provides directory results from The Open Directory Project.

• Lycos provides sponsored listings from Overture.

• Lycos provides Web Results from Fast and from the Lycos network.

Preparing For Lycos:

• Do NOT Spam!

• Make sure that your site includes quality, informational content.

• Prepare for and submit to the ODP.

• The content of your site must be in the English language.

• The information on your site must be useful to someone in the United States.

• Do not include any illegal content or material or anything that may infringe on another's rights.

• Keep important pages on the top level of your site.

• Build your link popularity.

• Lycos seems to favor freshly submitted pages.

• Cross linking your important pages to and from your main page is very important.

• Make sure that all of your important pages can be accessed from your home page.

• Site popularity is very important in determining the relevancy of your pages.

• Include a series of headline tags incorporating important keyword phrases.

• Site must be complete.

• Do not include re-directs.

• Do not submit mirror or duplicate sites or pages.

Submission To Lycos:

Titles:

• Titles can be around 60 characters.

• The first letter of each word and proper nouns should be the only capitalized letters.

• Analyze the titles of other top ranking competing sites.

• Make sure that your title is an accurate representation of your pages content.

• Each page should contain unique titles representing the content of each page.

• Titles should not contain marketing hype.

• Titles should contain your most important keyword phrases for the page.  On some occasions, it has been noted that the titles do not begin with the keyword phrase but it appears a word or two into the title.  You may consider testing this out.

• If you do not include a title tag, Lycos will index the first 60 characters of your body as your title, so be sure that this area of your body is an appropriate title for your site.

                Descriptions:

• If your site is in the ODP, your ODP description will be used.

• If your meta description is a relevant representation of your site, your meta description may be used.

• If your site is not in the ODP and the meta description is not a good choice to use for your page, the first 200 words of your body text will be used.  Be sure this area of your page includes your keywords and is a captivating description of your page.

• Lycos will include text in your ALT text if this is the first text on the page.

                Keywords:

• Add keywords to headline tags.

• Add keywords to ALT tags.

• Include keywords in page names.

• Include keywords in directory names.

• Use synonyms and plural forms of your keywords.

• Be sure to include your keywords throughout your page.

• Keyword weight varies greatly with Lycos so this is one engine you may want to consider testing out some Content Oriented Pages with different weights.

Submitting To Lycos:

Free Submit:

• Sign Up To Be A Member For Free Submissions
  Sign Up Here

Pay Inclusion:

Lycos InSite™ Select

Benefits:

• 48 - 72 Hour Indexing

• Listing Refreshed Every 48 Hours For 12 Months

• Click-Thru Reporting For 12 Months

• Visibility In Multiple Engines, Including:
      *Lycos
      *AllTheWeb
      *Excite
      *Infospace
      *Webcrawler
      *HotBot
      *Dogpile
      *Metacrawler
      *T-online
      *BT: Looksmart
      *ItaliaOnline

Prices:

• $35.00 Per Year For Your First URL

• $15.00 Each Additional URL

Sign Up Here For Lycos InSite™ Select!

Lycos InSite™ Pro

Benefits:

• All Of The Same Great Benefits of Lycos InSite™ Select

• Customizable Site Search (Powered By Fast) For Your Web Site -- Hosted By The Lycos Data Center

• Submission Reports

Prices:

• $189.00 Per Month For Up To 250 Pages

• $278.00 Per Month For 251-500 Pages

Sign Up Here For Lycos InSite™ Pro!

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HotBot

HotBot Notes:

• HotBot is a search engine owned by Terra/Lycos.

• HotBot is one of the oldest search engines.

HotBot Results:

• HotBot results contain three categories: Top 10 Results, Directory Results & General Web Results.

• Top 10 results include popular sites and searches.

• Directory results are hand-picked by human editors.

• Web Results are provided by Inktomi.

• HotBot offers the capability to search the HotBot database, Lycos, Google and / or AskJeeves all from one location with the click of a button.

Preparing For HotBot:

• Prepare your site to be reviewed by human editors.  Keep your design comfortable, organized, fast loading and easy to navigate.

• Prepare your web site for submission to Lycos, Inktomi & Google.

HotBot Submission:

Submission Directly to HotBot is Currently Unavailable.

• Submit your site to Lycos
  http://insite.lycos.com/searchservices/

• Submit Your Site To Inktomi & Ask Jeeves
     Paid Submission To Inktomi & Ask Jeeves:
       http://www.positiontech.com/
     Free Submission To Inktomi:
       http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm

• Submit Your Site To Google
  http://www.google.com/addurl.html

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