Lycos Paid Links

[mobillica]

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Hi, has anyone recieved an email for Lycos, to appear top of their search listings in return for a paid annual fee?

I think keywords are catagorised into bronze, silver and gold.

Anyone think it is worth it? Does anyone use Lycos these days?

[artistri]

Bought one for a competitive term and it has driven zero sales. Not worth it in my opinion even though it was a steal....

[Stuart]

Not worth it at all, I paid for placement (ok, over 2 years ago) and it generated only a trickle of traffic and only a few sales. This was as a merchant and not an affiliate

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[mobillica]

thanks for those replies.....some great keywords available, but it seems the bottom line is that no one uses Lycos search!

[deadgoodundies]

Whats Lycos?

[fizzbird]

Whats Lycos?

It's a black dog - a Labrador I think?

[renegade]

A friend of mine bought his keywords and got almost no response, he didn't renew.

[byinstinct]

Done it myself mate - total white elephant

[Jack Russell]

I trust Google than anyone else.

[johncash]

The question for me is does it pass on any search engine juice?

Do the pages ever have PR? As far as I can tell... no.

[Bud]

The question for me is does it pass on any search engine juice?

Do the pages ever have PR? As far as I can tell... no.

I have one of the better keywords going for AM which has only generated one sale in over 6 months. As for passing on 'search engine juice', my experience suggests not. No real natural serps from it and page directed to is still PR0 (for what that counts).

[johncash]

Thanks Bud. It has always been a tiny weeny bit tempting for that reason so it is good to get a confirmation.

Is it nofollowed? I guess if you really really wanted to you could build links to the lycos page... Probably not worth the effort though.

Cheers

[findlite]

Tried it a while back, no sales generated at all.

Only search engines/directories worth being on are Google, Splut & Freeindex.co.uk. Google because thats where the money is, Splut because its great to get new sites listed in Google within a day or two & Free Index because it does generate a few sales plus its free :tup

Anything else is a waste of time esp anything with the words yell, thomson or scoot in the title