Web Site Promotion - Top Search Engines
Yahoo!
Alta
Vista Infoseek
HotBot
Excite/WebCrawler
Lycos
Lycos
To get listed, you submit your url. You will probably be listed
within a few weeks.
How do they get my site title and description?
The title is taken from your title tag. Your
description is whatever the spider decides it should be. This
tends to be the first words of text the spider finds on the page.
The spider does not index meta tags.
Ratings
Scale (1-10) : 1=Poor; 10=Excellent
Quality of Search Engine: 8
The search engine will do the job, and then offer to
let you search for sounds, images and other things related to your
search phrase.
Quality of Directory: 7
Uses a directory called Community Guides, and the
sites are ordered on the basis of votes from people who view the
sites, so there are uaually some good things to be found.
Ease of Submission Process (Search Listings): 8
Easy to submit, but you may have to wait some time for
your listing to appear.
Ease of Submission Process (Directory): 2
You cannot suggest a site for a listing in the
Community Guides, because sites are found for this directory using
a special web spider.
To Submit
Go to Lycos, and
look for the link "Add Your Site to Lycos". Read the instructions,
and use the form to submit your site.
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