Internal Link Pop on PFI Engines

[maoley]

On PFI Engines like Inktomi, AltaVista, AllTheWeb, etc., I have to pay for every page to get into their index. Since most of the engines have adopted link pop algo in their serp, there comes a question - how do these engines determine a page's internal link pop?

For example, I only pay for my homepage. Do they crawl my entire site to calculate its internal link pop? Or they just give a internal link pop rating based on the paid pages? If it's the latter case, that means the more I pay, in another word the more pages I pay for, the higher the internal link pop will be.

Is it true?

[Brett_Tabke]

Hi, welcome to the board. Yes they do crawl your entire site. If you watch your logs, you'll find Ink to be one of the most aggressive regular spiders/crawlers there is on the net. Obviously, not all those pages make it into ink, but are used to feed the data machine some food.

[maoley]

Thanks Brett.

So they do give a page's internal link pop rating based on the entire site link structure even if I pay for only this page.