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Old 05-06-2004, 07:00 PM
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I just noticed on one of my sites the the Inktomi bot and Ask Jeeves bot have visited around 60 times in the last 2 days Anyone else seeing this?

What might this mean seo-guru's ? I've seen lots of visits but that seems a bit much or am I just paranoid
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Old 05-06-2004, 07:07 PM
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I havent noticed those bots hitting my site much at all. Did you pay for inclusion? if so that would explain it but if not ..wow Rich I have no idea
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Old 05-06-2004, 07:49 PM
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Hi Wayne,

No Paid inclusion at all. Just listed in the Yahoo Directory and have quality inbounds.
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Old 05-07-2004, 12:23 PM
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I'm seeing the same thing. No paid inclusion for me either and my site is not in the Yahoo Directory.

In the past I would only see Ink and Jeeves come by once a week, but it has been everyday this month so far.

Also, I consistently have pretty good placement on Yahoo, and that makes me think that paying for Inktomi inclusion and a Yahoo Directory listing seems to be optional.
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Old 05-07-2004, 02:49 PM
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Interesting... I've seen sites where an intelligent argument could be made both ways. Anyone else have any thoughts on whether the directory is worth being in other than for the traffic from the directory itself ?
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Old 05-16-2004, 05:58 AM
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It wasn't that long ago that I still wasn't in the yahoo directory.. They pulled my office address from another directory to get the informantion, and indexed me under that location.
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Old 05-16-2004, 06:16 AM
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Hi Jeff,

Did they index your site or put you in the directory for free?
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I was put there for free.. 98% of my igotrealestate site is in the sandbox. I changed all my file names adding KW to the file names.. so all my pages lost PR except the ones I didn't change..
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Old 05-16-2004, 08:31 AM
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Did you do 301 redirects for the pages you changed ?
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I know what they are, but I've never done one or knew that they would help.. Explain please.. I been in that sanbox for over a month... If I do that sand box code to see find my placment G has spidered all my new pages but havn't released them yet.. I'm sitting at #2 for Minnesota Real Estate out of 3.7 million
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