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It basically says that if you submit your site through inktomi's free submit page, you will end up with a lower ranking.
With this information in what, what is to stop me from repeatedly entering the url's of my competetor's companies to bring their rankings down?
> Another concern about penalties is that anyone can submit another person's URL to Inktomi. Potentially, that means that nothing would stop a competitor from submitting your pages and getting them penalized. However, here's where we can move back from the brink and discover that the Add URL penalty isn't as bad as it sounds.
> As it turns out, if a page submitted via free Add URL is later found by Inktomi's link crawler, then the penalty is automatically removed. This is because Inktomi has more faith that the page is less likely to be spam, so feels it doesn't need to penalize it from the start.
That should clear up any confusion, I hope.
Ink Plans On Ending Free Submission
Webmaster World, Nov. 12, 2000
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Thread from Webmaster World forums where news of the Add URL penalty emerged.
