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Lycos Site Submission and Ranking Process |
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A detailed evaluation and review of Lycos including how they index, size, methodology and tips to getting higher placement. |
Overview:
Lycos is a large scale search engine and web portal that has increased its services beyond searching the web.
Website Information
Submission & Ranking Process
| Spidering |
Lycos will spider or follow all links it finds on your website and index them into their database. You can control the degree of spidering through a standardized robots governing file or META tags |
| Popularity Counts |
If lots of websites link to your site, then your site will be ranked higher in Lycos' rankings. |
| No Abuse Tolerance |
Lycos will not index websites that try to "Spam" or abuse META tags into their database |
| Additional Information |
Lycos indexes all visible text and ALT image tags but does not support frames, image maps, HTML comments nor META Tags. Lycos is sensitive to special characters such as "%, &, =, ?" which should be avoided. |
| Submission Time |
Getting listed in Lycos takes about 3 weeks. |
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