Paid Inktomi listings dropped

Anybody else???

[DrCool]

Has anybody else seen Inktomi drop listings lately? I had a domain I was working with that I submitted through Position Tech drop completly out of the index. The pages were listing very well and I made no changes to the pages. Has this happened to anyone else over the past few days?

[stcrim]

Are you saying you had non-paid pages that were dropped after you added some paid pages? Though INK claims this isn't a problem - they recently killed a client's site in favor of the 2 pages we paid for.

Doesn't leave me with that "reach for my VISA CARD feeling".

-s-

[nick]

I have had the same thing ..100 paid pages all dropped out ( as good as) :-(

[Terrier]

Me too, Paid for page, good listing, then Poof ! gone for main keyword not even in the serp for that word. I do not feel the traffic is worth worrying about, but I certainly will not reach for the plastic again with pt. a couple of the high listed competition are using poor-man style cloaking with redirects,
My pages are clean. Strange.

[mog]

I have also seen many paid listings go from the first page to position 500.

Has anyone got any ideas what is going on with ink?

[adamxcl]

I had paid for some listings as well. They were in there for a little while, few months maybe. And then gone.... Haven't been anywhere to be found and I didn't resubmit.

I just got an email saying it's time to renew my listings at such and such a price. Wow, pay to renew something that I paid for and I'm not getting right now... hmmmm. Have to laugh.

[Hissingsid]

My listing was dropped so I wrote to tina at positiontech.com who quickly identified what was causing the problem, the dns was not resolving. She contacted Ink on my behalf and the whole thing was sorted out very quickly.

The ease of contacting someone who was able to help was outstanding, especially when compared to AskJeeves and Google.

Sid

[stcrim]

Hissingsid

WElcome to WMW and the Ink forum - thanks for the input

-s-

[nick]

..is everyone using Positiontech here?

[DrCool]

I have been using PositionTech. I have been very pleased with them overall. I wrote to them with my problem and they gave me the standard "the search engines can do whatever they want with the Inktomi data" answer.

[nick]

I got that reply too..
So, Ink has an algo and that decides where you are in the Ink database. Then msn ,aol etc draw from that..correct? So a sudden drop across the board , not from one particular SE ,would be down to ink , not the engines..?
Im pretty new to this so all comments and corrections welcomed!

[GoInkGo]

Me Too - 12 paid pages has been dropped for 3 weeks now. I had a TOP 10 for 8 months and now, no where to be found. If I search for the URL, they are in the engines but not for my keywords.

I contacted someone @ PT about this and no answers for 2 weeks now :(

[test4echo]

I've had at least 100 pages dropped from Inktomi. For some domains, a Ink Pure Search on the domain.com will return all listings, but in AOL/MSN, maybe 1 or 2 returns on the domain.com search. Has anyone heard from PT or Ink on this?

[makemetop]

Have a read of this. If you are reported, you are up against these new guidelines. [inktomi.com...]

Makes Google look positively lax :)

[NFFC]

Good one MMT, you had me fooled all the way to here..

Q: I need to buy my way to the top of the rankings quickly. How do I do that?
A: None of Inktomi's paid inclusion products have anything to do with ranking. They simply provide inclusion; ranking occurs as it would if the pages were not paid.

...then I realised it was a spoof.

[stcrim]

If Ink sticks to this:
[inktomi.com...]

There's only 3 pages on the internet that inktomi will index. Wonder if they will make it on $75 budget next year.

-s-

[jeremy goodrich]

too funny. Did they forget who they work with while they wrote that?

>>>> $75 dollar budget

I think that is giving them a little too much credit. Perhaps they will go all out and index all 10 pages that qualify :)

[agerhart]

I hate to be the only one, but I have not had a problem with Inktomi yet.........that is, yet!

[Terrier]

This is very strange, Ink is chock a block with spam pages.Google is squeeky clean in comparison.

Can someone tell me is the algo vastly different than google (like over a 100 positions)? I know which engine I prefer to do well in !

Maybe for ink the answer is to revert to the methods that seem to do well

[makemetop]

>then I realised it was a spoof...

Well, maybe it was! That page isn't there any more. It has been replaced with [inktomi.com...]

[4eyes]

Agerhart, you are not the only one - we have been doing great on Inktomi recently - with no drops:)

We manage over a hundred sites in Inktomi - all different customers, different products etc. All clean optmisations, well on the 'safe side' of SEO.

Almost every single one has jumped a few places recently.

We haven't changed the pages, so clearly there is a major drop out or a tweak to the algo or filters.

Not complaining though:)

[makemetop]

>Google is squeeky clean in comparison.

You've got to be kidding - LOL!

[littleman]

<required disclaimer>This is my opinion folks, not wmw's</required disclaimer>

Well, if Inktomi is banning folks it will be one move in a long series of burning the folks who keep them alive. The SEOs are what are powering inktomi's business model. If Inktomi bans sites that paid for inclusion then it is breaking a moral contract. This has been imktomi's historic pattern. It is no surprise.

[inwaaaytoodeep]

Well,

Did anyone have a look at Inktomi's Spam policy? Read it through and then learn to guard your trade secrets.

Make public what you know privately, with like-minded people.

Did you wonder why it all got harder>>??

;)

[backus]

I've never paid to get in Inktomi, and I never will!!! It get in just fine for free! Never fails!

[backus]

In fact, thanks to some of the paid listings going out, it seems to have lifted my already almost perfect results! Me happy!

[WindSun]

With some of our competitors spam and cloaked pages gone, we now have 3 pages on the first page with the 2nd most common keywords search for our products.

[Keynote_DJ]

I'm so glad I found this thread. I'm not alone!!My web site was #1 for the query "charlotte disc jockeys" after submitting my site to Inktomi, but as soon as my monthly budget tolled at LookSmart, my listing completely vanished from Inktomi's results (not just LS' sponsored links but also Inktomi's main search results). This is absolutely outrageous. I paid a separate fee to Inktomi. I have submitted a complaint at <snip>, and I'll give you the link as soon as it's posted.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 9:19 am (utc) on June 3, 2002]

[Brett_Tabke]

We are not the site for rallying the troops for such things.