inktomi results vs google

Why do pages which rank well in google not show up at all in Inktomi?

[sichen1234]

Why do pages which rank pretty well in Google (in the top 10 or top 20) not show up at all in Inktomi? (I did the Direct Submit via PositionTech.) What could be so different in the algorithms?

Would anyone recommend using WebPosition Gold or another software package to make special pages for Inktomi?

[johan]

WebPosition Gold is good but I will never use it for my own baby projects. I would submit by hand.

Google spiders pages deep and romantically BUT Inktomi only spiders the domain home page unless the website pays up. If its a new website then you will have to pay Inktomi just to show the domain.

[Mohamed_E]

I have never paid Inktomi one penny, but they still spider my site as completely as Google does. Rumor has it that if you pay they will only spider the pages that you have paid for.

I do not look carefully at the Inktomi SERPs, as I usually get around 85% of my SE traffic from Google. But when I do look I see that I do roughly as well on Ink as on Google, sometimes a few positions higher on Google because I have better PR than most of my competitors.

[sichen1234]

It seems to me that people who have good ranking have the keyword embedded in URLs, and they pack the keyword in their metal tags and titles. In other words, Inktomi seems to be more susceptible to SPAM than other search engines. Has anyone seen this to be true?

[nfinland]

"Rumor has it that if you pay they will only spider the pages that you have paid for."

not true!

I have a paid inclusion with inktomi for my index page and some 50 % of the other pages are also indexed. Inktomi is quite slow with the rest of the pages - been online since middle of 2001, but only 50-60 % is indexed :-(.

Google vs Inktomi rankings

Well another rumnor - Inktomi treats customers differently? Big customers = money = treated well! Donīt know exactly what that means, but I have some good keywords (=competed) that has top rankings on Google (4) and have an Inktomi 34 placement.

[heini]

>keyword embedded in URLs, and they pack the keyword in their metal tags and titles

sichen, I'm sorry, but not putting your keyword in titles is simply a mistake in 99% of all cases. The title should reflect your content, and your content should reflect your targeted keyword(s). Same with meta tags, though those are not important anyway.
Having a keyword in the url, like in example.com/keyword/xyz.html just points to a sensible directory structure.

As to differences in ranking: with Google anchor text is the one most prominent factor. With Ink it's more about onpage factors.
Both algos are easily exploitable.