Cost?
For a “limited time” (they don’t say when the offer expires), the annual membership is $18 plus $12 per URL. This is assuming you use Lycos InSite Select to initiate your service. Prices may vary according to reseller.
New InSites into the FAST Search Engine
Of the major engines in the search engine universe, FAST — aka, alltheweb.com — is arguably the most unique. In many ways, it operates differently than typical engines and, in light of recent developments, it’s timely that we probe a little deeper into the inner workings of this strategically important engine.
The Importance of a Regional Search Engines Strategy
Competition for keyword positions has increased dramatically over the past year as website owners have started to realise the benefits of search engine marketing, pushed along in part by the increasing number of companies offering dedicated SEO services. The price of Pay-for-Inclusion and Pay-per-Click services have increased in tandem with the number of competing websites entering the indexes, leading to a situation where more money gets poorer results today than at any point in search engine history.
Search Engines/Yahoo Guide
Getting listed on Yahoo should be without doubt the most important mission on any Internet marketers mind.
Yahoo is the biggest of all the search engines, well actually that’s not true, you see Yahoo is not technically a search ENGINE it is a human compiled directory of websites and does not have a spider bot going to sites and indexing them. But for the sake of this article when I say search engines I am referring to all ‘search sites’.
Paying for Inclusion in Directories and Search Engines
It seems that everywhere we turn these days, we are constantly hearing the phrases pay-per-inclusion (PPI) and pay-per-click (PPC). There are now a number of ways that the search engines and directories are collecting funds from people trying to get their Web sites listed. The most important thing to note when discussing this topic is that money spent on PPI programs goes solely towards getting your site into the search databases, and that’s it. You can pay them all you want, but PPI is not going to give you a higher ranking. Remember this before you fork over your hard-earned money.
Jill’s Search Engine Optimization Process
From: Michael Lawford
Hi there,
Something regarding SEO has been puzzling me for quite some time now. It seems to me that even though search engine algorithms are constantly changing, the methods we use are staying more or less the same. As far as I know it is a simple(ish) process of:
Fast Search and Transfer Engine!
Martin Schaedel, my search engine optimization colleague from Sweden, recently conducted a telephone interview with Stephen Baker, Director, Internet Business Unit of Fast Search & Transfer, and managed to come away with some very interesting and surprising tidbits for you. Take it away, Martin!
Teoma: The New, Highly Regarded Search Engine
The year 2001 saw dramatic changes in the search engine world. Major players have either folded or stopped crawling the web, pay-per-click services like Goto/Overture have become much more prominent, and “theme-based indexing” has firmly taken root.
Website owners who don’t understand what these changes mean for them are missing out on tremendous opportunities to boost their site’s search engine traffic.
Reliable Advice for Getting Your Site Found In the Search Engines
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If you have a Web site, part of your business is to make sure that site can easily be found in the major search engines and directories. If your site is buried in the rankings, the traffic to your site will suffer.
The Importance of Spider Analysis in a Well-Rounded Search Engine Marketing Plan
The field of search engine optimization is a constantly evolving industry with important changes being made almost daily.
In the beginning, search engine optimizers focused on one thing only: rankings. Tracking of actual sales or conversion rates was almost unheard of.