Inktomi - the traffic generator?

[engine]

Are you getting referals from Ink's partners?

Considering all the heartache caused this year, so far, is it really worth it?

I've been assessing this over the past few months and have to conclude it is NOT, despite good rankings for kw and kp.

Anyone with views on Ink traffic?

[tigger]

engine

not getting much yet but I'm hopefull, but at least my clients can now find their sites on UK SE's that people have heard of(freeserve/ukmax) this in my opinion is worth a big chunk of the fee, as I have little or no confidence in all the other so called UK SE's, other than AV.

[mark_roach]

I have not a single visitor from any of INKs partners in ages. Then again it is not surprising as I can only find my pages with a 4 keyword exact match query !

6 months ago I used to get good traffic from freeserve, these days I don't worry about it. I have just been slurped for the 1st time ever, so may be my luck might change, maybe not.

Two Uk SEs worth looking at are lycos and ask, I get good traffic from both, as well as AV uk.

[tigger]

Mark.

I'll go along with lycos(UK)and excite(UK) as well but I can't remember the last time I got a site into either.

[engine]

Tigger/Mark,
Interesting, isn't it.
Is this a UK or global phenomenon?

I'm hoping there are going to be many saying they get lots of traffic to give me the incentive to submit to Ink.
At the moment, I'm still questioning it.

I get bucketloads from Yahoo and Yahoogle, then AV, MSN, Excite, Lycos in decending order. I can't see anything from Ink or it's partners. Before you say it, in most cases it's position 1 or top ten in Ink.

It comes back to: Is it worth paying?

[bluesriff]

I get decent traffic from MSN. Even better now since the pay to play thing. But it all depends on what ya need I guess. I make a fairly good living off 5 inquiries a day in total. If I could crack AOL I would be even happier. At least now I get the chance to figure it out fairly quickly.

[pete]

Slurp has been hitting most of our sites so hard that its outrageous. But, as far as traffic goes very little to shout about.

I am also pondering whether to pay to play. I think that the key will be to experiment with some of the pages and check out the return.

[engine]

Pete, are you already in the Ink db and ranked well?

[drbill]

Pete, I am getting hard as well but NO JOY.

Engine I am listed in INK but very far in the DB.

Anybody having luck with INK besides the PFP?

[eljefe3]

Easy there drbill.

I've only been able to maintain a good listing in the permanent db, but the new free submissions have been getting buried (even though looking at goo they show top 10) If the Ink partners were generating the traffic, I might consider paying their fee.

But since most Ink partners who are in the PFP program bury the Ink results after DH, ODP or others, it appears a "top 10" is more like a "top 20-30". Not much traffic besides MSN.

[Brett_Tabke]

I am fortunate enough to have a nice "basketfull" of pages parked in the old reliable INK db that have been producing for three years. They continue to crank out a few hundred Ink referrals a day. These are pages 2-3 years old. Anything under a year isn't sticking near the top at all. It is very rare when one of our newer pages floats to the top.

[Laisha]

Little by little, my clients are being dumped out of Excite and MSN.

Deletions seem to be happening at the same time.

Am I alone here?