Re: Where do I begin?

From: R. M. Flanagan <rmf-nl_at_autumnweb.com>
Date: Tue 20 Aug 2002 22:11:05 -0500

At 12:20 PM 8/20/02 , Lyn Rogers wrote:
>Well, I thought I knew the answer to this question. Simple, get some
>search engine software and broadcast my site to these search engines.
>Easy.
>Not so. I have been doing this for 3 months and have yet to find my
>store on any of the large search engines;

I wrote a long and involved email to Lyn, but the basics are:

1) The major SEs don't accept automated submissions, so the program was a
waste of money. The smaller SEs don't keep/maintain their own databases,
they buy/lease the databases of the major SEs.

2) database driven websites (which is what http://www.agiftgallery.com
appears to be) will not be indexed by any search engines. Only recently
Google started indexing database driven sites. One must have very good link
popularity to be looked at by Google, much less have them consider putting
a particular site in their database.

3) if one wants results quickly:
1) pay yearly fee for a listing at Yahoo (ONLY way to get a listing for a
business/commercial website is to pay)
2) pay for keywords at Overture (www.overture.com),
3) pay for an annual subscription fee per page (URL), the 'Search Submit'
program at Inktomi: www.inktomi.com

If you can wait, you will get results in most search engines if:
1) your website's pages are built properly. There is a HUGE difference ...
take two websites on same topic, site A has built their web pages properly,
site B has not. No matter what site B does, they will never, ever, ever,
ever get as high a ranking in SE listings as site A.
2) you must allow 6 months to BEGIN to see good results. Search engines
don't update their databases when YOU want them to, they do it on THEIR OWN
schedule.

4) search engine information is out there if you want to learn. Problem is
learning what is true and good, not what some shyster/con artist is trying
to tell/sell you. What to do, what not to do, how to do it the right way,
etc. go to these sites, start reading, reading, reading, reading, reading.
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
http://www.rankwrite.com/
http://www.highrankings.com/
http://spider-food.net/
http://searchengineshowdown.com/
http://www.northernwebs.com/set
http://webreference.com/dlab/books/html-pre/43-0.html

Those that have on-line archives of their newsletter - READ all the back
issues to learn everything there. And subscribe to and read everything new
that comes from the newsletters: Search Engine Watch, Rank Write, High
Rankings Advisor, see above links - find the sign-up place on their
website. Plus I-Search has 5+ Years of Indexed Searchable Archives:
http://list.adventive.com/archives/archives.html

Selecting a Reputible SEO provider
http://www.clickz.com/search/opt/article.php/918341
Article: What to look for in a SEO/SEM
http://www.searchengineguide.com/gd/seospecialist.html
and another at
http://www.websitenotes.com/2001/0814.html

And I'm sure there will be those that are wondering ... no, I am far, FAR
too busy to take on any new clients right now and told Lyn that, too. :-)

HTH

Roxanne @ http://autumnweb.com/

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