outland88 - 6:09 am on Mar 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Walkman, Thank you, that’s what I’m saying.

Tim, you’re shocking me. You must have a lot on your mind.

Back in September 2003 Inktomi begin assessing a lot of bogus penalties on PFI sites. About the only place a site showed up was with a domain search. The resellers argue you are in the Ink engines but the sites never show up in keyword searchs. Even using the title of a site.

It’s a penalty of some sort apparently targeting mainly Inktomi PFI sites. A lot of people have found they are excluded but the resellers give you differing reasons as to why. Another words they don’t know and don’t care. Inktomi itself would never respond to the problem.

What Seasalt is referring to is the Inktomi penalty migrated to the supposedly new Yahoo. When people see the same old Inktomi results and penalty thats a valid arguement. Inktomi/Yahoo is now cutting a pretty wide swath of damage for Ink PFI customers especially in MSN. Lord knows the damage if it migrates to ATW and AV.

It sounds like you’re mainly familiar with your new Site Match program not the Ink PFI programs and problems. That being the case the situation is only going to get worst for the penalized sites. It’s a classic case of the resellers now pointing to Yahoo and Yahoo pointing back at the previous Ink resellers.

One reseller’s support told me to contact 16 major search engines and ask them to remove my listing and that would correct the Ink penalty. Some of the other suggested fixes were even more laughable.

Yeah, sign me up for another screwball support person to find something wrong. I imagine something can be found. Personally I’ve heard enough over the months to realize that Inktomi never kept records of what it was penalizing or why.