Backlinks important to Inktomi?

[Thanasus]

Basic question, does inktomi pay attention to backlinks?

[willybfriendly]

Basic answer - yes.

One quote I came across reads, "Search engines that use backlinks to measure the value of a web page (for the resulting listings) include: Google (includes AOL), AllTheWeb (Fast), Altavista, Hotbot and MSN"

Google the phrase inktomi and backlinks. See what comes up.

WBF

[WebGuerrilla]

It depends on which Ink you're talking about.

Free Ink - Yes
Paid Ink - No

[your_store]

Are we discussing basic link popularity or incoming anchor text?

[requiem]

Yes, it is important with the right achortext on your backlinks. When I do off-page Google optimalization I see improvements in the Inktomi ranking as a side effect.

If the number of backlinks is an important ranking factor? I do not know.

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Inktomi is not important in the European
marked! Europe is the kingdom of Google. :-)
99% of the effort goes into improving the Google ranking, nice to see it has a payoff on the smaller engines too.
</off_topic>

[markm]

To take this question a bit further....

do backlinks to your home page help you with interior pages within you domain (such as with Google PR)?