nfinland - 6:04 am on Apr 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

"I'm getting outranked in MSN as well as Inktomi's Pure Search left and right, and often only find my pages buried 100+ results down."

I have the same "problem" as Rooster Tail. My site has a good ranking with several competed keywords in Google. My site also ranks good with the same keywords in Altavista and ask.com (Teoma also). The ranking on Inktomi is however way behind (+ ranking on Alltheweb has also dropped?).

Comparison:

Keyword 1

Google:4
Altavista:2
Ask.com:2
HotBot:28

Keyword 2

Google:10
Altavista:8
Ask.com:7
HotBot:81

I have looked at the "competing" sites and they have a good ranking both in Google and Inktomi. I´m trying to figure out what makes my site rank poor in Inktomi. My site is optimized with all the usual methods (title, description, H1, bold, keyword density, links text etc.). The problem should not be there? The link popularity is also quite the same for my competing sites. I´m thinking of every possible thing - my site is in php and I my navigation is an include etc. Taht should not make any difference?

Anyone having this kind of problems or some suggestions on what to try out?

p.s. The drop in rankings on Alltheweb happened quite recently. Could be off page factors, but I´m also trying to remember if I made some bigger changes on the pages that could have affected the rankings - poor memory and no documentation :-(