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In the last weeks, I dropped a lot in ranking. Before I was position 1 for a search term. Now, I'm position 16 ! All results before me are NON paid pages. I tried to optimize my paid pages (I have 2 sites in the same situation) with no luck.
So my question is: Does Inktomi give preference to "free" pages over paid ones ??
Anyone also saw this ?! Anyone dropped in ranking ?!
P.S. The positions are from a pure Inktomi search engine.
A warm welcome to wmw.
I've not seen any changes feeding through yet, however, it may just be a database update and change in algo.
Have you seen any new pages of updated pages appearing?
You've often got to give a few days for the db to settle across all the servers.
