On 16 May 2005 at 10:42, Lona wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am in a personal dilemma. Was told my business site is all done wrong as > in meta tags and there is not title. So, I talked with a webmaster who > does some sites that I am familiar with the business. One is a very large > alternative medical practice. He said he charges 1500 to meta tag it and > get it up in the search engines. After I explained to him that my business > is very small, and I may have to work a year to make that pay off, he said > he would do it and redesign it for 400. I told him I did not have the > money and he said pay as you can. That he would do a mockup for me to look > at. I've met the man, he is not well, and just felt really bad that he was > having hard times and said ok. He did not meet the time frame, I've only > seen a partial mockup and he is furious with me that I don't want the MS > blue anywhere. He told me just now in an email that he'd make the scroll > overs red and there would be green and red like a Christmas tree!! > > Right now, I'm feeling vulnerable as I don't know if my current page is > really wrong with the view source info. I don't know what to do or where > to turn, and not being a business woman, having that experience, and, > having an extra soft heart, I'd like to tell him just forget it. In fact I > tried last week, I offered to send him a check for his time so far and that > I did not want him to do more. He wrote back saying he did not go back on > his word and he would get it online. > > Now, all I want is advice and I'm trying to get ready for a big seminar > that and I'm totally stressed out. Daddy, where are you? > > I'm not wanting to put anyone's name out there, but the new guy told me > that the man who put my site up did everything wrong. Any advice? I sure > need it. >
Lona, forget about the meta stuff. Years ago search engines used it, Now it is all about content. Concentrate on the writing and make it relevant to what people are searching for and you'll show up in or near the top of search results. How long has your site being up? If it is recent then the spiders and crawlers may not had made the round yet. There SEO experts out there doing fancy things like cloaking and charge an arm and a leg for it. Eventually the search engines got wise to it and you, the site owner, pays the price as your site's ranking drops to the bottom or worse still, gets banned. HTH, Kevin Lee http://www.legacy1.net ICQ: 41912308 __________________________________________________ Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -- Erica Jong -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME list is hosted on a Windows 2000(TM) machine running L-Soft international's LISTSERV(R) software. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have questions about the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
