Web Site Ranking Tips --> Inktomi

Inktomi is not a search engine! They are a database. What this means is that they have set up a company that spiders and indexes web pages, stores them in a database and then rents this list of web pages out to anyone willing to pay the price. A lot of companies are willing to pay Inktomi to store and retrieve the pages they require for their search engines.

Inktomi claims to have over 200 million pages in their index. Here is a list of some of the search engines powered by Inktomi: Yahoo, HotBot, Snap, Anzwers, Canada.com, CNET, Swiss Search, Geocities, eHOLA, Goo, Goprofit, GoTo, iAtlas, ICQ Inc, N2H2, Quepasa!com, radarUOL, StarMedia and 4anything.com.

The list just seems to keep growing and growing. You can be assured that if a company is paying Inktomi's price then they are serious about having a presence on the Internet in the form of a search engine. So you can see how important it is to get into their database.

How do you get into their database so that you even have a chance of coming up on all these search engines? This used to be the sole domain of HotBot but now there are other doorways into their database and it seems that they may have more than one database that you need to try and get your site into. We will give a list of all the sites and links to their listing pages at the end of this article.

Here are some tips on ranking high in the Inktomi database.

Key #1
Here we run into problems because each "partner" of Inktomi has a different set of algorithms. But once again there are some generic things that can be done to ensure at least a reasonable chance of getting some decent rankings here. Make sure you use whatever search terms you can in the title tag and also in your description. Use Meta keyword tags but make sure you do not over repeat your keywords in this tag. Use your keywords and phrases as often as possible in the text on your page. Use Alt Image tags to get in a few more occurrences of your keywords and use comment tags with a few occurrences of your keywords in them. Do not use same colored or small text as this is considered a spam technique and will get you penalized. Make sure if you have a site designed with frames that you use the "NOFRAMES" tag and put the text you want the spider to see in this tag.

Key #2
Text on the page is the most important thing. It has to contain your keywords and phrases and there has to be enough of it. Remember the spider needs to read the text because it cannot see your images. Do yourself a favor and design the pages with the spiders and your potential visitors in mind. A well balanced page will always out rank a gimmick page.

Key #3
Here is where you can list your page so it will get into the Inktomi database. Make sure you use them all and list by hand. Click on any link and it will take you directly to their submission page.

HotBot   |   ICQ   |   Anzwers   |   Canada.com  |   SwissSearch

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