Lycos listing

Description right, url listed wrong

[Jane_B]

I submitted a newly designed site to lycos.com and lycos.co.uk. The description and title I submitted appear in both search engines but the url quoted at the end of the description is that of the former domain name for the company ( the company restructured and took on a modified name, therefore previous domain name out-of-date.) I don't understand why Lycos has picked up the right title & description but not the url. Any ideas? And any suggestions what I do about it.

[heini]

Jane
did you use paid submit or free
and to the index or directory?

[Jane_B]

Hi Heini

Free and to the index.

[heini]

S that would mean your site has been spidered by Fast.
Title and description are as on your site I assume...

When you type in the old url - what do you get?

[Jane_B]

Yes - the title and description are on the site.

When I key in former url I get the new site - presumably because the server has been set to redirect old site name to new site. I noticed that the old site name remains in the box and does not change to new site domain name - if that is of any significance.

[Rumbas]

Hi Jane B

If you submitted both a title and description I would pressume that you submitted to the directory [dir.lycos.com] - which is a clone of the Open Directory. There's no option to enter a title for the index submission - it's just an "add url [insite.lycos.com]" box?

If this is the case, I think maybe the editors have forgotten to list the new url?

>server has been set to redirect old site name to new site

OK, if it has been setup correctly (permanent redirect) eventually the spider should pick up the new domain.