Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-19 Thread Leo Lapworth
Hi Folks, I've been asked to get a company in to help improve our search engine ranking (which no one has even considered in recent years). Does anyone have any recomendations ? Yea, I know the basics, meta tags, robots, links I even get the concept of mini sites to feed traffic but I really nee

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-19 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
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RE: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-19 Thread Clayton, Nik [IT]
> I've been asked to get a company in to help improve > our search engine ranking (which no one has even > considered in recent years). Does anyone have > any recomendations ? Write relevant and interesting content that encourages other people to link to you. N -- Global Messaging Victor

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 03:23:16PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: > I've been asked to get a company in to help improve > our search engine ranking (which no one has even > considered in recent years). Does anyone have > any recomendations ? Yes, it's simple. Make sure that the content is relevant,

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-19 Thread Mark Rogaski
--GpGaEY17fSl8rd50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable An entity claiming to be Clayton, Nik [IT] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: :=20 : > I've been asked to get a company in to help improve : > our search engine ranking (

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-19 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 03:23:16PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: > > > I've been asked to get a company in to help improve > > our search engine ranking (which no one has even > > considered in recent years). Does anyone have > > any recomendations ? > >

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-19 Thread Chris Carline
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:06:44PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: > Not true. You're in a chicken and egg situation. Google ranks by the > number of people that link to you. How do people link to you unless they > know you are there ? Google does not rank purely by the number of people who link to yo

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:06:44PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 03:23:16PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: > > > I've been asked to get a company in to help improve > > > our search engine ranking (which no one has even > > > consid

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-20 Thread Leo Lapworth
> Perhaps that tells you something about heavily "designed" sites. I didn't > make any special effort to make my sites search-engine-friendly, they just > turned out that way because they weren't built by some overpaid crack > monkey with three-quarter-length khaki trousers and an amusing T-shirt

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:33:09PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: > Personally I think that the site we have is the best estate agent site > for London (notice I said best not prefect). That may be the case. However, as a user, I'm not in the slightest bit interested in which agent a property is lis

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-22 Thread Leo Lapworth
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 04:03:08PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:33:09PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: > > Personally I think that the site we have is the best estate agent site > > for London (notice I said best not prefect). > > That may be the case. However, as a user