PFI Site gone from INK

this is the second time!

[textex]

I had one site that was a little similar to another site listed in INK. This site got delisted for being too similar to the other site, I was told by Position Tech guy. I honestly think he had not clue as to why the site was delisted, he was just guessing. The sites are very different in content, the only strong similarity they have is domains. One is www.blue-green-widgets.com the other is www.brown-green-widgets.com. These sites target completely different terms. These sites are very clean and do not practice any sort of SPAM whatsoever!
Unfortunately I lost the one site about four months ago.

About three months ago I did some major revisions to both sites, making them even more different than they already were.

The one PFI site that was still doing well with INK is nowhere to be found now! This site was ranking well for well over a year! No SPAM, no dodgy tactics, nothing!

Why would this happen?

The only thing I can think of is a competitor of mine scraped some text from my site and copied my Title verbatim.

Would this be the cause. I could really care less about INK except for the fact that Yahoo! is going to be under the influence soon!

Feedback is appreciated!

[RoadRash]

Thanks for the tip. It looks like they removed 3 of the pages for duplicate content, as ~60% of the content on the page is in face duplicate. (what we are, what we do, and how to register). The top 40% of the page is unique for that product, but uses a similar template. ARG!

I ended up pointing those 3 position tech URL's to different pages. It looks like I can change the URL as many times as i want for 30 days. Luckily, I am only 6 days in!

I am not sure if a bot caught the duplicate content, or an editorial review, I cant imagine an editor would goto a page with only 7 clicks a week!

[textex]

"You might check the logs for this type of referrer:
http:// internal.inktomi.com
http:// peyote.inktomi.com
These are what you will see if you've had an editorial review. "

How do you know this fiestagirl?

[panic]

I don't think that anyone watches their logs more closely than I fiestagirl does..(except maybe Wilderness). ;)

[textex]

wasn't doubting it...just wondering

[panic]

She found out about it by watching her logs closely. Maybe I should do the same :P

[textex]

My question is:
How did she come to the conslusion that these referals from INK meant an editor reviewed the site?

[fiestagirl]

I came to this conclusion because I have had sites removed from the Inktomi index within hours of this type of review. Not in the index anymore, never spidered again, no second chances, too bad.
I've heard of other webmasters cleaning up their site and asking for another review and being refused, basically because no second chances are given-ever. It's also important to remember that just because you PFI doesn't mean that you get to do whatever you want- you have to be a trusted feed customer for that..;)

[panic]

fiestagirl,

If that's the case, then how come some pages get de-indexed, then indexed again?

-panic

[fiestagirl]

The million dollar question. I've had sites disappear for a few days due to some snafu at Ink and also had the server be down or something when they try to spider. They remove your site immediately when they're unable to spider for whatever reason and it takes about 3 days to get back up and running.
It pays to log into your providers portal every couple of days and make sure every url has the green light that says "included".

[textex]

Yeah....I did fiestagirl...green lights are blazing...