Ink Dropping Cloaked Pages

[nell]

All my cloaked pages dropped. Non-cloaked pages ok.

[nowhere]

The thing is that the pages are already paid for. With Aol, one page on Ink for a year has brought in much more than $25.

[SEOPTI]

I wonder which association do they find with your domains when you use different domains on different IPs and your sites are not cloaked and all domains are burried.

I don't think it's the domain owner. That's hard to believe. I can't imagine they do an automatic "whois" when you replace your burried domain with a new one. It must be something else.

[mtgratedir1]

What really makes me made is they dumped our paid pages, and the clients that are paying ink on PPC are still there. Their pages are no different then our pages. Maybe filing a class action lawsuit against inktomi? They have caused us a lot of headaches and to top things off after today you won't be able to change the domain. They should notify you if there is a problem and give you time to fix it before dumping your pages. I guess we can see why Inktomi is in the toilet.

[SEOPTI]

Everyone should send them the url of this thread and tell them how full of sh** they are.

[e-mail]

[littleman]

A class action law suit has slim to none chance of winning, also it is a subject that wmw needs to stay away from. However, you are free to vote with your dollars.

[makemetop]

Well, no sympathy from me here.

Either keep on the ball or don't play the cloaking game.

Got caught? No tears here :)

I've had sites dropped or penalized by INK! So? I pushed the envelope too far - my fault. I didn't moan about it (apart from the great June melt-down a couple of years ago) or threaten law suits - I just got on and built new sites which got my positions back within 2 weeks thanks to paid spidering.

Learn from your mistakes - don't moan.

[GoInkGo]

Makemetop... good post !

Inktomi now takes the quality of their database seriously. Free pages or paid pages, there are no difference for them.

God created the earth... SEs created the Internet. See SEs like God... comply with their Ten (or more) commandments and you will be OK.

It's their business after all.

[GoInkGo]

SEOPTI... No need to send any url... I'm pretty sure that they read forums like this one.

And it's not their problems if you did something against their policies !

[nell]

If one is going to make rules one needs to enforce them all the time. When rules are not enforced, the cheaters dominate. The only way to compete with cheaters is to cheat also. The alternative is to stay out of the game.

Try playing cards honestly while the other players are cheating. I guarantee you'll always walk away a loser.

For too long INK has let the cheaters dominate the search results. Now it has caught up with them. So now, after losing the AOL deal and more than 30% of their business to Google, they've seen Jesus. They're now born again. The new Inktomi will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes.

I doubt if Yahoo will buy that as INK pitches for their business. The same pocket pool management still runs the Inktomi show.

[SEOPTI]

INK should better take care to stop the "preteen girls" pages in their search results which are submitted with paid inclusion before they go on with other things.

[mattb]

My cloaked pages are back as of this morning. Go figure it's now June 1st...

Ink can't cutoff the hands that feed them completely.

Anyone else back in?

[Marcia]

When did they update? I just saw a big change with an innocuous little site early this morning (unpaid and not cloaked), showing changes made several weeks ago. Totally different from what was there for that site on the 27th of May.

Irrelevant to this thread, but just thought I'd mention it because seeing a change like I just saw is unusual for unpaid.

[nowhere]

SEOPTI-

It is by owner. They have been blacklisting owners for some time now. If you’re a big company, you can become their partner and get a “spam all you want” pass. Otherwise, register under different names. This time “Mickey Mouse” has been officially blacklisted from Inktomi.

[SEOPTI]

INKTOMI, what's this??
Go for Google and you will win !

[SEOPTI]

nowhere,
thanks for the info. Do you have an idea how much $$$ do they want for
the spam license?

Last time it was $0.25/click with SpamConnect, oh sorry
I mean IndexConnect.