Why would I disappear?

[BoneHeadicus]

All of a sudden I've been dropped from the Ink DB. Any ideas why this would happen?

[mivox]

All but one of my pages disappeared in the last update... (OK, Excite shows *two* of my pages, but the rest of the Ink sites only show one)

No clue why. Have you given them money for any of the pages on the domain in question? That was my theory... since I hadn't paid them, they were going to drop everything but my index page.

[vis]

"since I hadn't paid them, they were going to drop everything but my index page"

This theory was doing the rounds a couple of months ago when paid spidering was first introduced.

We noticed several of our properties had all their pages dropped except the index page. Since then, there has been spidering of other pages but nothing has been added.

I think it should be taken as read that this is a tactic to move people over to the paid program. For instance one counter-theory was that it was because the pages were not sufficiently linked to, but on sites with multiple ODP listings, it is still only the index page showing.

The accompanying threads on a lack of free-spidering in this forum back this up and confirm INKs move to fully paid listing with only token index pages of non-paid. There are still non-paid, non-index pages in INK but for how long.

(Um, excite isn't INK)

As to BoneHeadicus being dropped (entirely?) hopefully not a portent of INK's next strategy to boost Pay for Inclusion

[Brett_Tabke]

Tell us more about the pages Toolman. ;-) How long had they been in the db? Any of them paid? Very good link pop on the pages?

[toolman]

Well the one site has been in the db since 99 and it gets spidered annoyingly frequently (only index). The index page is also cloaked and my first thought was I got busted...but that doesn't make sense. It was there just a couple of days ago and now there's no trace. The only real producers are MSN and GoTO. Msn is the one I'll miss the most.

Oh yeah great link pop. No paid pages.

So if I was busted for cloaking would paying get me back in?

[littleman]

So if I was busted for cloaking would paying get me back in?
Doubtful.

[nell]

I had been ranked quite high in a keyword for the last 7 months, paid listing. This morning I find myself, together with a number of others that I had been competeing with, down in the bowels of MSN. In our places they pulled up a number of sites from the grave, sites I had never seen before, and placed them where we used to be. Any answers why?

Edited by: nell

[nell]

[startup]

On this update Ink changed the title and description to the LS title and description for the index page. Ink also added one new page that has a recent LS listing.

No pages dropped just one added(LS) and the inbound link count has about doubled.

I can't prove it but I believe any LS or Dmoz listing will be crawled and added to the DB with out submitting.

[mivox]

(Um, excite isn't INK)

::smacks forehead::

I've been thinking it was for *such* a long time... But I go to their site, and sure enough, not an Ink logo to be seen anywhere!

::slinks off to a small, dark corner::