Are your paid INK pages in the Toilet?

Did they rank then get trashed

[stcrim]

Just looking for an accounting of what's happening with pay for inclusion.

Time and Time again we are hearing about paid pages that were doing fine in INK and now are in the toilet.

Anyone having that same experience with paid pages dropping in rankings?

-s-

[pmac]

Also noticed that aolsearch.aol.com, and aol.com are showing completely different serp's. aol.com is delivering a mirror of the pure ink results, and aolsearch.com is showing ink results, but with a different algo. ( Absolutely brutal quality I might add.)

[john316]

<<Their "auto scroll to the top" feature is no more than a full size version of a popup window shoving paid advertising in your face.<<

I agree with that one; anytime you over ride the surfers intent, the user gets alienated.

The way that MS implemented the auto scroll is slimey and I figure that most folks probably think the site is "broken" and go elsewhere.

[tigger]

It looks like I’ve not lost any rankings but my traffic from google has increased 3x which is probably one of the reasons I thought I had lost some rankings with Ink.

I Had a look at the reports PT offer and over the last 3 mths the clicks reported has stayed pretty near enough the same, so maybe as nell suggested people are moving away from MSN.

For me the biggest incentive to pay for ink pages was the MSN traffic perhaps now is a time to reconsider when those PT pages come up for renew

[stcrim]

It looks like listing results are Index Connect on top, folloowed by BOW and/or DMOZ mix followed by Paid Inclusion, followed by free pages.

It appears the playing field is anything but level

Really makes me wonder if they now consider the paid inclusion pages to be SEO and are penalizing them...

-s-

[Terrier]

Hi stcrim what is index connect?
You may be right but even so why the boot for one keyword.

If they are penalising pay pages the word will get round, and who will want to pay seems stupid to me?

[tigger]

Terrier

Straight from the horses mouth

[inktomi.com...]

[Terrier]

What would you suggest as a competive phrase?
My term is competive but I do not think it is as competive as all that,plenty of spam example 3 & 6 are the same site with different urls.

Trying to get my head around this to see if it is worth having a go with a new site.