PFI at INK may hurt your page rankings.

Our PFI pages are outranked by our naturally spidered pages

[nipear]

I have a couple pages on one of our ecommerce sites in INK via Position Tech including the home page. None of our PFI pages have received good ranking in INK. I've yet to see a top 10 for our PFI pages.

Until just recently INK had not picked up our dynamic pages other than the PFI pages. But since their last update they are all in the database and they ALL have top 5 rankings for their keywords with many at #1. Even our 3 deep pages rank very well.

The thing is our PFI dynamic pages are still doing horrible in the SERPS. The only thing I can think of is the 'natural' pages get a boost from INK?

I'm definately not renewing with Postion Tech, but I am currious if I deativate my URLs if it will hurt my other natural URLs for the same domain? Has anyone else experienced this? It seems strange that our PFI pages are being treated differently than our natural pages, because they definately are for the worse!

[jeremy goodrich]

It is very ironic to me reading your post. Previously, INK had included a bit in their ranking algorithm that gave a boost to the people that paid money got ranked first even though this wasn't explicitly stated, it encouraged many people to up and pay them.

Now, you are saying it's the reverse of what it was a year ago, that free pages will get a ranking boost, and paying will lower your ranking which makes sense, given their sudden shift in attitude: posting at WebmasterWorld, saying they are 'refocusing on search', and releasing a huge new database built on (mostly) free inclusion stuff from web crawling.

The funny thing is, for the company that began the whole slide to pay for inclusion, they can't seem to make up their mind.

But then again, next year, we won't be debating their business practices...we'll be saying,

Inktomi...who? is that a company, or a legend?

:)