What The Search Engines Say - Lycos

How do I improve the ranking of my web pages in search engines?

Although we cannot guarantee your placement within search results for particular keywords, the following tips will help you to ensure that your pages are spider friendly:

Write great content that human searchers would understand and do not try to trick the Search Engine's algorithms.

Use keywords that searchers use to find your web site in the meta-data. Use your web logs to determine the keywords. Don't guess!

Make sure your web content mentions those keywords near the top of the page. For instance, place the keywords in the headline or in the first paragraph on the page.

Repeat keywords more than once within your web page, but don't over do it. Too much repetition is considered spam.

How can I make my site spider-friendly?

• Speed: If your site is slow, it will affect the length of time it takes to spider the web site. Try to build pages with few and small graphics.
• Title: Spiders won't index the information if TITLE tags are the same on every page. (TITLE tags are displayed at the very top of the browser.)
• Descriptions: META description tags can be included for each web page. These can provide a better search result description than a spider-created excerpt.
• Registration: Spiders can't traverse a site if there is a username/password in their way. If you must have users login, set up a separate site where the spider can access the content.
• Search-based Sites: Spiders function by following hyperlinks. Purely search-based sites cannot be spidered. Therefore, create a "spider.html" file (i.e. a list of URLs on the site for the spider to traverse).

How do I improve the ranking of my web pages in search engines?

Although we cannot guarantee your placement within search results for particular keywords, the following tips will help you to ensure that your pages are spider friendly:

• Write great content that human searchers would understand and do not try to trick the Search Engine's algorithms.
• Use keywords that searchers use to find your web site in the meta-data. Use your web logs to determine the keywords. Don't guess!
• Make sure your web content mentions those keywords near the top of the page. For instance, place the keywords in the headline or in the first paragraph on the page.
• Repeat keywords more than once within your web page, but don't over do it. Too much repetition is considered Spam.