Inktomi Update

Pages dropped

[mburgess]

Hey Gang!

Just ran reports and noticed that a client had all of their pages dropped Inktomi Partners -AOL, HotBot, LookSmart, MSN and Overture. Rankings that just one month ago were Page 1's Position 1's. Darn I attribute this to their pay-for-inclusion program?

Has anyone else had this same problem?

Comments, suggestions?

[stcrim]

mburgess

What exactly happened? Did you pay for some pages and INK then dropped pages that were already in the database. Or, were these pages that were in the old db and INK just dropped them?

-s-

[mburgess]

Didn't pay INK for inclusion of these pages. They were just "naturally" found. Unfortunately this month was horrible. Dropped everything that INK touches!

Ouch!

[Soph]

I've had 2 clients dropped from HotBot, one free submission and I paid inclusion!! Both were ranked in top 10, most at #1 and have been for months. Also in a number of instances a search which obviously should have had results came back "no results for your query". Both of these were done today. I did a report for another client yesterday and all was fine.

I'm not having trouble with any other SE though. Does anyone know if there's any probs with HotBot at the moment?

[Marcia]

My paid pages have not beeing showing up at Hotbot at all, so it looks like there is a problem.

[Soph]

Marcia,

Are they all still showing up in MSN etc?

Soph

[angiolo]

No problem on:

[hotbot.lycos.co.uk...]

No show on:

[hotbot.lycos.com...]

First 10 results (1st page : directhit)

second page: ????