Inktomi

sbc002 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-25-2004, 09:42 AM

Greetings All... this is my first post. We are a home based small business. Together my wife and I are parents, craftsmen, webmaster, secretary, customer service...you name it. We built our own site and have been enjoying the results without ever paying for advertising, ppc, or paid inclusion.

I was enjoying a #1 ranking for search term "leather watch bands" and #3 for "watch bands" in Inktomi results. Suddenly, my page http://www.oldschoolleather.com/Watchbands.htm cannot be found in any Inktomi results. Is this common for a specific page to be dumped??? Is it permanent? Can I expect to see the same thing happed with other pages where I have good results for common search phrases? i.e. we are top 10 for "leather belts"
Thanks for any help
SBC

bvi · #2 (**permalink**) 03-25-2004, 01:24 PM

When you say "Inktomi results" what search engine were you using?

sbc002 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-25-2004, 01:31 PM

I get basically the same results at Yahoo! or MSN. Again, it is just the one page that suddenly does not appear in any results...

cbp · #4 (**permalink**) 03-25-2004, 03:23 PM

Yahoo! does not use inktomi. HotBot does.

CBP

sbc002 · #5 (**permalink**) 03-25-2004, 04:33 PM

Okay, sorry for my ignorance... I get the same results searching at HotBot...My site can be found, but not our "watch bands" page. I would still like to know if anyone knows why the search results provider(s) for Yahoo/MSN/HotBot would remove a specific page from their results... and is it permanent? My site is listed; however this specific page is not http://www.oldschoolleather.com/Watchbands.htm