| Hotbot
Hotbot originally launched in 1996 by Wired Digital and has grown to become a major player in the search engine market. In late 1998, Lycos acquired Hotbot. To this day, Hotbot is powered on the Inktomi engine for their search capabilities and the Open Directory Project for their directory based system.
Website Information
Submission & Ranking Process
| META Tags |
Hotbot makes extensive use of META tags, particularly the Keywords and Description Tag and the title of your page |
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| Spidering |
Hotbot will spider or follow all links it finds on your website and index them into their database. You can control the degree of spidering through a standardized robots governing file or META tags. |
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| Popularity Counts |
If lots of websites link to your site, then your site will be ranked higher in HotBot's rankings. The popularity component of Hotbot is powered by Direct Hit . |
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| No Abuse Tolerance |
Abusing META Tags or spoofing their search robot may get your website lower rankings or even blacklisted. Limit repeating keywords in the META tags |
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| Additional Information |
Hotbot indexes all visible text, HTML comments and the ALT image tags but does not support image maps nor frames |
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| Submission Time |
Getting listed in Hotbot takes about 3 weeks |
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| Special Triggers |
Hotbot has special reserved triggers which can help assess your rankings and positioning once you've submitted your website to Hotbot. |
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