Whats Up With Inkomi At PostionTech

[companyone]

Hi,

I have anccount with Positiontech, with 8 urls in it for Inkomi submission.

I also have a SureList account with NS with 10 URLS in it.

All of them are getting a "ERROR 4000", and a person from Poistiontech said it was because the yahoo slerp had not index them, and they should be finshed by this weekend.

AS of today, None of the URLS are listed in Yahoo or Inkomi.

The 10 URLS in my SureList have completely disapeared..(they all had 8 months left before they expired)

The 8 URLS at posistiontech are listed with a "4000 error"

It seems to me Yahoo could take more care, in the way they are handling this....this is very costly in a number of ways, and some how I do not see anyone of these companies, making up lost time and lost money.

Can someone give me a clear cut idea when these things will be fixed?

If the Inkomi slerp is not going to be crawing my webpages anymore, does that mean I just wasted ALL my money on 8 domain URLS I paid for only 9 days ago?

Thanks for your replys in advance.

Dan

[outland88]

Join the PT crowd. I pay them for non-existent listings in Inktomi, MSN, and Yahoo. I even had my sites refreshed yesterday, according to them.

[allanp73]

The rumor I heard (and believe to be correct) is Yahoo is dropping Inktomi's paid inclusion sites. So if you pay for Inktomi you guaranteeing that you won't show up on Yahoo. Brilliant idea, eh? ;)

[needinfo]

I have the same problem with Error 4000 URLs in my account.

I just spoke to somebody ar PositionTech and they told me that it is an error on their part because they are moving over to the new system (Overture/Yahoo). According to this guy they are addressing the URL 4000 problems alphabetically and it should be resolved in 24 - 48 hours or so.

We also got talking about SiteMatch and I told him that Yahoo were crawling the net for free so why sahould I pay a yearly fee plus an inclusion fee plus CPC. He basically reiterated what Tim said but added that with Sitematch you are guaranteed inclusion (dependant upon editorial consent obviously) whereas with the free indexing via Yahoo! Slurp the bot could find you one week then not the next. I'm not sure what to make of that last comment, maybe he just means that the spider could come along whilst your site was down for example.

I aslo put to him the question about PFI URLs possibly being ranked better than free indexed URLs... his reply was that it was not for PositionTech to comment on that... fair enough I suppose.

[thecheat]

"Yahoo is dropping Inktomi's paid inclusion sites"

Seems to be the general consensus.