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Also, I've been reading some articles about how LS is affecting Inktomi results. If this is the case, my site was just "paused" by LS a couple days ago because I've hit my limit. Does this affect my Inktomi rankings as well?
AGH! Such frustration!
Nell...I'm not sure I understand what you're saying about competitors submitting my url in the PI program. Do you really think that a competitor would waste his money submitting other people's URL's into their program? I doubt that that happend in my case. Have you come across instances where this has happened and if so, how do you fight it?
Yes. You will be removed by INK from their listings until the next INK update. A competitor hasn't paid for your URLs to be in INK - L$ has (which is just as bad). When you get removed from their DB, they take the URL they have paid for (and you) out of INK! Only ways I know of around it are:
a) Pay INK yourself and you'll re-appear.
b) Remove yourself from L$ (to prevent it happening again) and wait for INKs main DB to update and put you back in.
So, if I have my client buy into Inktomi's pay for inclusion program...they will remain listed in all Inktomi engines, even after their LS listing has been "paused?"
L$ is an INK Index Connect subscriber - and has been since March last year. With L$ going PPC, you are getting charged per click on INK results by L$.
>Aren't their results independant of one another?
Not if L$ is submitting your URL(s) to INK. When L$ remove your URL from their DB - they no longer feed it to INK.
>Why would having my LS listing "paused" have any affect on my Ink lisitngs?
See above.
>they will remain listed in all Inktomi engines, even after their LS listing has been "paused?"
Yes. You will notice that before you are paused that the INK listing will often have your L$ Title and Description - and after it is paused you will revert to your own page Title and Description.
The INK/L$ relationship was a benefit until L$ went PPC - now it can be a millstone around a site's neck!
This whole LS thing is a disaster. And with a pending lawsuit, I can only imagine what will happen next from them!
At first I thought a competitor might have played dirty by submitting my site to the pay-for-inclusion program to get all the free pages purged. I spent a day analyzing my log files and finally concluded that this was not the work of a competitor. Furthermore, I have another site that has paid-inclusion and free pages both, so the theory that joining the paid-inclusion program at Ink trashes all the free pages on that URL doesn't hold true in my case.
This site was never submitted to L$, so the theory that L$ is taking the Ink listings down with it doesn't apply here.
I tried submitting a former high-traffic page to the pay for inclusion program. It was indexed but ranked so low as to not draw traffic.
My best conclusion is that Inktomi cranked up some spam filters and started trashing innocent sites. Google does it an gets away with it, and even lured AOL away from Ink, so Ink may be taking their lead.
