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Lycos receives their web results from a variety of sources. Overture provides the Sponsored entries. The results from the "Popular" section of Lycos come primarily from the Lycos web editors, and secondarily from Direct Hit. In the "Web Sites" section, results come from the Open Directory, Fast Search, and the Lycos web crawler. The Open Directory powers the category links at the top of the "Web Sites" section, and also provides some web site matches. Below the category links are web site links, which come primarily from Fast Search. Secondary links are provided by the Lycos web crawler.
Although it is not as significant in the results rankings as it used to be, the Lycos web crawler is still spidering the web. The Lycos web crawler does not weigh META tags heavily. Indexing is based on an algorithm that takes a look at components of the URL name, Meta title, text body headings and subheadings, how frequently words appear, where these words appear in relationship to one another, as well as a document abstract (based on full body text). Any web page that does not have a minimum of 75 words is not indexed but Frames are supported. Lycos does not care about case sensitivity. They will not allow special characters in text, so avoid ?, =, and $. Pages are added in 3 to 6 weeks.
The following search engines or directories provide content to Lycos:
Fast Search
Open Directory
Overture
Steps to Carry Out the Tip:
- Lycos likes keywords in the title of your page. So, be sure your title contains your most important keywords. If you leave out the title tag Lycos will create a title for you using the first line on your page. It is still best to use a title so you control what is displayed in the search results.
- Use your most important keywords in your title, and in the text at the top of your page.Lycos penalizes for invisible text and text too small to read. These techniques will bump your page to the bottom of the results. See the following URLs for more information and to register your pages:
- Lycos supports stemming. i.e. run will return results for running and runner. Lycos may also support synonyms.
- Lycos uses the first 150 characters of your page as the summary it displays in search results. So make sure searchers see what you want them to see.
- Lycos does not support (it ignores) Meta Tags and image maps, but link popularity has a positive effect on ranking. Lycos doesn't learn how frequently you update your site. It indexes ALT tags, and ignores !comments and doesn't support image maps. In fact, a good way to control your description is to put it in an alt tag with an image at the top of your page. Lycos ignores some common words and doesn't add them to it's index.
- Optimization technique summary
- Create short, (no less than 50 words) doorway pages to be indexed by Lycos.
- Use the <title> tag to control what the title the searcher sees in your results.
- Use the header tag with your most important keywords in a sentence.
- Use an image <alt> tag to control the description of your site.
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