One of my sites has been banned from Sensis!

Is this a first?

[fish_eye]

Well I never!

One of my oldest and most popular sites no longer exists in Sensis.

It's not a directory but has about 10 "member pages" some with several thousands of words, moderate numbers of outgoing and incoming links and no linking between members.

Still rates fine for most members in all major indexes and no reason I know of why it would fail lock stock and all barrels in Sensis.

The thing that struck me was that they actually have their own algorithms including some filtering!

[anallawalla]

No, I think the "first" is that anyone actually noticed such a thing.

Sensis people monitor this forum - perhaps a Sensisguy could emerge?

[fish_eye]

Must admit - it's not an index I spend time monitoring. You may have noticed from my tone that I'm not too fussed (not yet anyway).

I got some feedback from one of my "members" that they had a new client from their site and they had come up #1 in a search on their major single keyword (I was happy but found it hard to believe for various reasons).

I could not find out which index so I hunted around to see how things were and found it.... so I dug deeper as my client is in top 10 in G, Y and M$ but nowhere to be seen in Sensis.

I thought it might have to do with the structure of the site. The home page is just a portal to (listing of) the member pages.

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I would not dismiss Sensis just yet - once "the public" realise they get a combination of yellow pages and websites in the one listing - and Telstra get a decent algoritm - and they get the marketing right (a few "ands" there - true), it'll be a nice place to look for local "bricks and mortar" establishments (it's actually not that bad already in some ways - for local specialised shopping etc).

Actually they need two decent algos - one for their web index and one for the yellowpages. Do a search for "widgets <locality>" and you get a heap of widget related businesses and sites, but search for "blue widgets <locality>" and there's not a widget yellowpages listing in sight :(

[dodger]

Site banned from Sensis?
I'm sure you'll miss those 2 visits a year :)

[Woz]

Hehe, that is what I was thinking dodger. A client rang me one day jumping for joy that they were in Sensis. I checked the logs - 1 referral so far. Needless to say the client's enthusiasm waned a little after that little titbit.

Sensis have/had an enormous opportunity to become *the search* for Aus. They still have a lot of work to do and no amount of TV commercials will achieve the desired result.

Onya
Woz

[anallawalla]

I get the occasional visit from my Sensis PPC ads but I have never reached my meagre monthly spend limit. So, people are using Sensis to search but it will be a while before we can expect to be seriously monitoring our SERPs there.

[bts111]

I really would not worry.

The senseless.com.au engine is receiving nothing, in terms of traffic.

The head honcho that was in charge of the engine is leaving to work overseas with the CEO and a member of the executive leadership team.

Over the next 5 months there will be loads more customers using Bidsmart.

The sales teams have been given the green light to sell the product and the salespeople in the company know how to sell ; )