Where do they go?

[dvduval]

When you remove a page using the Positiontech interface, what happens to that page?
I heard one person say they like to keep substituting pages around so that they can maximize the number of submissions per month.
But I see that Positiontech says replaced pages will be removed from the index.
Which is right?

[MakeMeTop]

They go! Not straight away - but they will go. It is to prevent things like this that Inktomi have reduced the URLs to be substituted after 30 days - to those on the same URL.

[markymark]

Both, kind of. When you substitute one page for another, it takes a couple of days for the one to fall out of the index and the other to come in. Obviously, if you keep swapping pages about you can have lots of different pages in and pay only for a few.

I think to keep doing it all the time is probably a waste of effort, but I usually swap pages around a little at the start to tweak them, then keep the best 3 or 4 depending on the budget available.

[dvduval]

How harmful would it be to a page that is well ranked before submission to submit it for the purpose of refreshment (because I have updated the page) and then removing it at a later date?

[markymark]

Is this a page that is already in Inktomi, but not through paid inclusion ? If so, leave well enough alone would be my advice.

[buckworks.com]

I'm one who was rotating URLs within my PositionTech account (all within the same domain) and while at first I thought I was clever now I'm not so sure. Markymark posted in another thread that he's been experiencing problems with Inktomi, and they sound like what's been happening to me, so there might be other factors at work here, but here's my story.

I had two pages that were doing really well in Inktomi and I figured there was nothing more I could do to optimize them so I rotated to a couple of different URLs. Those pages held their top-five positions for three or four weeks even after I was no longer paying for inclusion, and I assumed they'd stay there because they were well-optimized. It didn't last. They seem to fall back to the mercies of the regular (non-paid) index, and search results showed an outdated title and description. If / when Inktomi spiders my site again presumably the better-optimized page would be what was competing in the ranks, but I decided I couldn't afford to wait around to find out, and paid for the page to be included again.

Someone somewhere on this board warned against paid inclusion for the index page of one's site, as it might do strange things and cause one's whole site to be dropped from the main (non-paid inclusion) index. By the time I read that bit of advice it was too late, and I've been uneasy about it ever since, wondering what might happen next. Can anyone comment on that?

Elisabeth Archambault