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Hotbot displays
some web results from the Inktomi search
portal. It's directory comes from the
Open Directory project (see
article), and the Featured
Site listings are powered by Overture's
Pay-per-click model. Some listings
come from their partners Lycos or Direct
Hit.
Submission
Notes
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Inktomi Paid Inclusion
Service: Is done through Lycos or
Inkitomi Paid Inclusion Services.
Annual Membership with Lycos is
$18.00 and the Annual Cost per URL is
$12.00. This will give you page
acceptance notification and your site is
guaranteed to be included within 48
hours.
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A Free submit is available
at Hotbot.
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Inktomi will spider your
site, but needs text links to crawl
inside the site as it can't read image
maps.
§ Keywords in titles, metatags and body text all add to a site’s relevancy. Site popularity also adds to a site's relevance as Direct Hit actively monitors site popularity and these are incorporated into the top 10 results in Hotbot. Shorter Pages with prominent keywords seem to be favored.
§ Search results for common keywords and phrases are being combined with DirectHit listings. These search results are coming from the click popularity based DirectHit engine. These results from Direct Hit disappear after the first 10 listings and then they are replaced by Inktomi results. Searches powered by DirectHit will have a "Powered by DirectHit" noted on the bottom of the page.
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Keyword stuffing, hidden
text, irrelevant keywords and submitting
identical pages are considered spamming
and will be penalized
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