Just came across this forum today and was wondering if you can offer any advice, Iv'e got a little cash to use to promote my website which is B2B (webmaster related) and am still unsure whether I should go for the Looksmart directory deal for £99, or use a paid inclusion deal for £125 for a years inclusion into Inkitomi, refreshed every 48 hours (using Web-gravity - are they reccommended??)
Ive got good lisitings in Google, Yahoo, Excite, AV(UK) but do not appear in Inkitomi (after 3 Months waiting!)
What do you guys think?
Will submitting to Loooksmart get me into Inkitomi too?
Regards,
Matthew.
what a choice looksmart v ink, I think if was my money I would go for looksmart, paying the £99 fee will not get you into inktomi
Sorry don't have any information on Web-gravity, but why not go direct the PT site is very easy to use, not unless Web-gravity is offering some wounderfull deal.
If your sector is very competitive for a single term, go for looksmart to top MSN.UK. If you have a number of less competitive keywords go for Inktomi.
WebGravity has been fast at adding new sites into the Inktomi crawl i.e. 48 hours. On current currency rates, WebGravity is marginally cheaper and has a UK support line.
The £125 you quote is for a submission package which has a lot of extras such as submissions to engines you are already on.
You want the submission to Ink only which will vary depending on the number of pages.
I don't think the thread on webgravity came out very well for them.
Great username are you from cornwall ? one of my favourite films is Excalibur
As for the original question, if you've got the cash go for both, if limited a little financially then do looksmart submission only. :)
I submitted to inktomi using web-gravity, although the position I got was still rather dissapointing. I decided to create a specialist inktomi, and submit that, although it has not been updated for 5 days (so much for every 48 hours!)
also does anyone know whether the description changes dependent on your meta-tags or do you have to edit it via webgravity?? or is it permanent?? :o)
Decided also to submit to Looksmart UK, and after a few days I was accepted which is good news! lets just hope I get a good description and position!
Thanks for all your help,
Matthew.
if it was me I would get on the phone and ask why, you've paid the fee so where's the service.
>changes dependent on your meta-tags or do you have to edit it via webgravity
I don't know about the service WG offer, but in theory if you change the meta description and the page gets re-indexed then it should change in the serach results.
But I think your first concern is WG.
If you mean that you haven't seen it in the search engines, this is because, although the page is spidered every 48 hours the search engines don't immediately display the new results.
I've found that MSN updates between 2-3 days after you have been spidered.
The description will change by altering the meta-tag regardless of who you submit through.
Careful on checking rankings. I have a growing feeling that Inktomi doesn't update the database rankings as frequently as the content changes.
If you don't have access to your log files, you can log onto the WG Inktomi site and check when you were last spidered and whether there were any problems.
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