Re: UKNM: Search engine promotions

[Jamie Unwin]

I would have thought their are only a few ways of improving you chances of apearing high on a

search engines listings, all are fairly well known, and therefore I would

be suspect of any company telling you they will do miraculous things for

you etc. etc.


(1) Setup a seperate (text only/HTML freindly) verison of your sites or

even a page of links to sections of your real site you widh to promote, and

get the web server to redirect the search engine to these spider friendly pages.

You would have to set this up for yourself regardless of who tells you this.


(2) Do a contra-deal with a big search engine so they can force your

results to the top (or just pay them !)


(3) Lay your pages out more search engine freindly (this is not needed if

you do step 1)


(4) Learn how search engines work, not exacly a black art, but you may need

to do some searching on the web to find out how they work,


http://www.searchenginewatch.com is a good starting point for this.Anyone

who tell you they have 'super insider info' is talking rubbish, except

Elizabeth (Van Couvering) who can tell us all how Excite works ;-)


(5) make sure you don't do anything stupid like deny access to search

engines via access control


Be carefull, it is absolutly stupid to pay someone to tell you to add a few

<META-TAGS> to your page.

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