Inktomi Renewal

Can I get included for free?

[coconutz]

Has anyone had a page included in Ink after dropping PFI? Slurp has found other pages from this site and they all link to the PFI page.

[seth_wilde]

If you drop PFI you should show back up in there database eventually.. But don't be suprised if you experience a blackout period of a couple of months..

[coconutz]

don't be suprised if you experience a blackout period of a couple of months..

Our PFI expired on 9/22, and the page was dropped from the index yesterday, and is back in Pure Search today. A mouseover shows no "redirect-west.inktomi.com" It has the LookSmart description from the PFI listing, but I'm not complaining.

I've had good luck using Goo [goo502.goo.ne.jp] to submit pages to Ink. They have been spidered within 24hrs of submitting them, and I think that they've been added within a week or so:

2002-10-05 16:36:15 202.212.5.36 - 80 GET /index.htm - 200 Mozilla/3.0+(Slurp.so/Goo;[e-mail];+http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)

What's up with Ink? Seems like they've been busy lately.

[Marcia]

Ink is doing nicely. :)

[egomaniac]

coconutz, did your rankings change at either PureSearch or MSN once your page reappeared?

[coconutz]

Initially at Pure Search it was up slightly, and no change on MSN (they show my LS listing). Lately it keeps slipping, and I'm not sure what's going on. I see redirect-west.inktomi/mysite.com in the url one day and then just www.mysite.com a few days later. Once I saw redirect-east.looksmart/mysite.com. When I query www.mysite.com, I'm getting different numbers, from 2 to 14. Does Ink use multiple indexes?

[minnapple]

<Ink is doing nicely.

Yep, if you can find targeted terms that are not buried with Sponsored Listings and Web Directory Sites you will do well.

On a new site I have been working with I have 8 pages in Google, 4 paid inclusions in MSN and 4 overture keywords and a dmoz listing.

Taking out the 0's and rounding the numbers, here is the sales return . .
dmoz referrals $2 (higher than the norm - but whatever)
google referrals $3
msn referrals $8
overture referrals $3

Because of the cost of the products only 20% buy when they enter the site. So 80% of the purchases cannot be traced to the original referral.

I am waiting for google to update so the other 30 odd pages hit, but you can see msn can be a powerhouse for sales.

You just need to work the keywords that produce the most sales and make sure these are ALWAYS included and well positioned.

minnapple

[pmac]

I just had some pages expire on the 22nd. They are still showing up on the pure search and on MSN with no ranking changes. The "redirect-west.inktomi.com" is gone.

[pmac]

And now they are gone. Figures. :(