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Your Inktomi questions answered
* Why is it important to be indexed by Inktomi?
Inktomi provides (part of) the search results for more than
50 partner sites, for example About.com, America Online (AOL),
Espotting
.com, HotBot, ICQ, iWon, LookSmart, MSN Search and Overture.
* How do I get listed on Inktomi search engines such as MSN
Search?
Inktomi was the first pay-for-inclusion search engine. The
quickest way to get listed in Inktomi is through its paid
submission service. Pricing is on a per-URL basis. The first
URL costs US$39/year
, each additional URL costs US$25/year.
* How can I confirm that my Web pages are in the Inktomi
index?
- Go to http://hotbot.lycos.com
- Enter "originurl:http://www.your-domain-name.com"
(without the quotation marks)
- Click the Search button
- If your Web site is in the Inktomi index, HotBot will
display a listing of your Web pages.
* How can I influence my search engine listing description?
Inktomi uses the first 200 letters of the META Description
tag to generate page summaries for its results. The length
allowed to the META Description tag depends on the partner
site.
* How do I get a top ranking on Inktomi powered search engines?
Inktomi is one of the only search engines that prioritizes
META tags when generating its rankings. It uses both the META
Keywords and the META Description tag.
* So META tags are everything for a good Inktomi ranking?
Unfortunately, no. It seems that there are a lot of other
factors that influence a ranking on Inktomi.Four months ago,
we finished the biggest search engine ranking study ever conducted:
We analyzed 103,260 top 10 Web pages to find out why they
are well ranked in the search engines.
We also analyzed Inktomi search engine rankings and listed
our findings in the inexpensive Inktomi
ranking report . You can download a free sample report
here
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