Looksmart and Inktomi

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Looksmart and Inktomi

and msn...

KingCrazy

4:19 pm on Mar 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

A couple questions...

We have a great listing on msn but are removed when our looksmart budget runs out for the month. However, we are also listed with Inktomi so shouldn't we still be indexed?

Also, we seem to double our traffic and CTR when advertising with looksmart..would this be mainly b/c of their partner, msn?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

-KC

korkus2000

11:38 pm on Mar 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

Looksmart results come up before ink results on msn. If your search phrases have a lot of LS results then your ink ranking won't matter. I would think msn is the reason for good performance with LS.

dodger

2:02 am on Mar 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

I've noticed a listing in MSN that is a page of keywords and links to other pages that immediately redirects to the homepage of the site.
It only has the position in the search results it has because of the method used and it looks like the site has come via Inktomi.

This method of submitting will get a site banned from Google but does Position Pro have any rules or does Inktomi have any similar rules regarding pages like this? Do they check?, is it an issue for them or is it "anything goes"?