When our spider analyzes your Web pages, it determines keywords and a description based on an algorithm that examines components of the title, headings and subheadings, how frequently words appear, and where they appear, based on full body text. The Lycos spider will not index META tags. All of this information is extracted from the page and stored in an abstracted format within the Lycos catalog. Important words should appear more frequently, in larger headings and closer to the top of the screen if not actually in the page title. This also addresses a portability issue, since some browsers are not capable of viewing frames.
Some webmasters build pages that include repetitive or irrelevant text, otherwise known as spam.
Lycos considers this practice to be unacceptable. To get a general idea of how the Lycos spider views your page, look at your Web page through a text-only browser such as Lynx. Lycos cannot manually influence the search results. The rankings are solely based on the text we have examined and the quality of competing sites. No matter how nicely you ask us, we cannot place a Web page higher in the search results.