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Seems to work fine, though (as I have to use Lycos), setting up an individual Lycos account for each domain is a pain!
>What's the benefit over free submit?
Getting listed in around 12 hours (on average) is pretty cool for me :) Especially as Lycos UK still drives reasonable traffic.
I will let you know how it turns out.
Once they get some of the other features installed (keyword tracking, click throughs, country targeting) I think the service will have more value. Overall I am happy with the service but not jumping up and down for joy yet.
P.S. If you don't want images indexed, you might want to exclude them via robots.txt before you submit. They went after everything they could find.
(edited by: MarkHutch at 6:59 pm (utc) on Mar. 26, 2002)
You know I'm always a glutton for punishment!
Yep - I've done the lot on the MMT site! Site search is pretty bad - way too slow. The Google search box works faster (though I hate to say it). Results are very accurate though - just no-one will wait around!
Spidering is superb - daily news and my newsletter is found and listed daily. I'm impressed.
Distribution through ATW and Lycos is immediate. On average a 12 hour cycle.
With that, I'm impressed :)
I will recommend it.
That IS impressive.
Two questions:
1) Are all of you generating enough traffic from this sector to warrant including this disbursement as part of your SEO offering?
2) The free submit option - what sort of lag time are you guys getting?
Its taking us up to 2 months+ with lots of client aggravation tempting me to go the pay option.
Cross-linking and directory listings seems to be the only way to get spiders to visit your websites in most of the engines these days!
If I submit: www.anything.com
which links to: www.anything.com/first/ and www.anything.com/second/
from the index page, will both the latter have their pages indexed for the $18? Or does it treat the latter two as diferent URLs and demand another fee for each?
Has anyone worked this out?
LIMITED TIME Annual Membership: $18.00
INTRODUCTORY RATE Annual Cost per URL: $12.00 [searchservices.lycos.com]
I had assumed that the $18 might have covered the 500 pages under the whole URL. This, however, seems like an arbitrary extra cost just because I have organized the site well (into logical sub-folders).
In this case the extra fee is not really cost effective, so I'll spend the money on something else.
Cheers.
In fact the confusion might stem from the "cost per url", where actually an url is a page.
Here's what happened:
I paid $30.00 at Lycos, and the Lycos Mod_Spider immediately came to my site, indexing something like 50 pages, then along came the FAST crawler and it took my index page.
Wouldn't you know it, the only thing that actually showed up was the index page that FAST crawled not the one Lycos crawled...that's fine because I paid to only have my index page included, but I hadn't realized that it would be included to the FAST index only.
Lycos crawled my whole site: Why? They didn't use anything they crawled.
Somehow I thought that a Lycos submission would get my new site into Lycos, not via FAST search results (by the way I already had nearly 40 pages including the index page in FAST already)
Also since the last FAST update I'd dropped all of my rankings, I had hoped paying for a page may give me back my rankings (since apparantly I'd been penalized)...It didn't.
I'd be interested in seeing if anyone else has had similar results.
/Ove
>benefit
Ensurance that you're in there and the ability to test short term.
Still a major pain to setup several domains though.
So far I'm satisfied but not swept of my feet.
