One other question, I've paid for listing with Inktomi and am appearing well in looksmart.com but practically nothing in looksmart.co.uk and the listed site is a .co.uk. No payments have been made to either looksmarts.
Many thanks
BT Looksmart's results have come under scrutiny at WebmasterWorld previously. [webmasterworld.com]
The reason why you're geting different results is because the LS results at .com are backfilled by Inktomi's db, whereas the LS UK is backfilled by Google.
Have the issues mentioned in the previous LS forum been rectified? I took a look at a few of the examples and it seems the results aren't tracked by LS which appears to mean they have some ranking criteria - do you have any other thoughts?
Some of them have (the matching on any word part which produced total rubbish). Others have crept in :)
One to watch are the crafty e-spotting listings which are popped into the main results and look like standard directory listings. Oh, and LS UK do now have their own PPC engine - BidSmart. Ranking criteria is pretty straight forward non-exact phrase matching, with e-spotting results being called if the title and description in e-spotting have words that match up with the search term. Anything where they can earn a few pence per click usually ranks higher than other sites where they don't!
