Inktomi

Why doesn't it do more on our site?

[abcdef]

Our home URL has been in paid inclusion with Inktomi for almost a year now. It's bots constant visit, however, it has only indexed our home page, and another page that is not even linked in navigation anymore (obsolete).

I have talked to others that have had the same problem. That for some reason Inktomi doesn't want to index the whole site.

Anybody have any ideas? Or does Inktomi want you pay inclusion fees on each URL it indexes?

[Shak]

Inktomi payment is per "URL" so if you "want" the rest of the site indexing you can pay to have that done...

there are many threads on webmasterworld detailing that Inktomi "will" in certain cases index 100s of urls without paying.

a site search should reveal them quite easily.

btw, Yahoo have only said they intend to buy Overture (inktomi and alltheweb), deal isnt done in stone yet, so maybe this would be better suited in [webmasterworld.com...]

Shak

[edited by: Shak at 10:38 pm (utc) on July 20, 2003]

[SlowMove]

It's funny the way Inktomi wants everyone to pay to get indexed. I think I paid them, but they don't send me any traffic.

[Mohamed_E]

Well linked sites do seem to (eventually) be totally indexed for free, and to do well in the SERPs.

New sites do take time, a heck of a lot longer than on Google.

[shlom]

I have the same problem.

After discovering that our site was dropped from msn which brought us many entries, I have decided to pay Inktomi (stupid me) cause I thought they will index all our pages.

The "funny" this is that when we did not pay our 3000 pages were listed and now when we pay we have only the URL listed and had 2 entries for the last two weeks (all MINE :) when checking the "reffers reportt"

Dont pay them, soonner or later you will be there. This is my feeling.
not my advise.

[abcdef]

I think, based upon reading this forum, we will wait and see if a) Inktomi ever becomes a major factor in Yahoo results (though word has it, that it will). b) See if it ever decides to index more than a couple of pages....

Before handing them hundreds dollars for URLs we want included....

If worse comes to worse, Inktomi results will become a large factor in Yahoo web site listings, and we'll be behind the 8 ball and play catch-up.

These SE's got you coming and going now, and all along they way say "no guarantees".. nice racket.....

[shlom]

Question to the experts

If my Homepage URL address which is now submitted to Inktomi is not the most important section on the site, and I want to index the Classified ads main page (for example) can I replace this page with the homepage in Inktomi? do they accept it?

Thanks

[defanjos]

Yes, you can switch within the same site.

[shlom]

Thank you defanjos

[junai3]

Unfortunately if you pay to be included with Inktomi they will only index the page that you have paid for.

However, if you do a free submit (providing that your site is linked properly) they will index your entire website. The problem with this is that it can take a very long time.

Another downside is that (I've heard) Inktomi gives a slight negative ranking to freely submitted sites. So if you have 2 sites that are optimized identically, the paid inclusion site will show above the freely included site.