Which engine is influenced the most?

Is there one standalone out there?

[SEO Speedster]

Hey all,

I am trying to prove the effectiveness of SEO to a client for a 3 month period. If I add their site into my Inktomi indexing account - they will get indexed.

My question though is this... What one engine gives you the most return on Inktomi inclusion? I'm looking for the biggest user-base and reliance on the Inktomi pages.

Thoughts?

TIA
~Speedster

[tigger]

I presume you when you mean your ink account your looking at saving the first page set up fee of $30 or whatever the first page fee is now? If so yes, the page will get indexed.

My best returns for ink pages are MSN & AOL

[DrCool]

By far MSN provides the most traffic followed by AOL. The rest of the Inktomi engines provide only a small fraction of what those two do.

[paynt]

Same as above. MSN is by far ahead and the Inktomi pages in MSN do far better than the Looksmart.

[stcrim]

MSN and AOL - no question about it - but remember you have to content with the directory listings if your KWs are competitive

-s-

[tedster]

>> you have to content with the directory listings if your KWs are competitive

Right. However, with KW's that aren't very competitive, an Ink listing can be pure gold. Especially with that MSN default search on the bad URLs from IE. That is one of the sources pushing MSN traffic that AOL can't compete with, no matter how big their user base is. The user base for MSN Search is any IE user who makes a typo!

I actually consider this a pretty shady move from Microsoft. But where it's bringing in traffic, there's no need to turn that traffic away. The big problem with it is that it automatically takes people to the number one site ("I Feel Lucky" without any opt-in).

If you have a keyword in your domain name, and only a number two spot on MSN, then a typo in the location window might take your traffic straight to a competitor.

[SEO Speedster]

Thank you everyone... Seems like AOL and MSN are the way to go...

If all goes well, I'll get these people in and on my list of URL's to have Ink begin spidering.

Again, thanks everyone - and you especially Tedster for the insight.

~ Speedster