Hi

I have been approached by a search engine submission company who are saying
that they can
meet my search engine needs by creating gateways to my website.

How is this looked on by search engines?

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Mick

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 19:01:04 +0000 (UTC), "Mick"
<mickdee@btinternet.com> wrote:

Did they say why your site has needs anyway? Can we have a peek at
your url? I myself was approached by a company today offering to put
my site at the top of the engines "all the year round". So much crap
talked by so many peoiple. Does your site have mucho Flash? Very
little textual content? Their offer might make a distorted kind of
sense. they presumably meant doorway pages. Let's have a look at the
site and see, eh?

(I'm only being so verbose because according to Alice I'm going to
have to turn into a writer any minute).

BB


MFW Britpack www.extreme-positioning.co.uk
There is only one war, and it's not the rich against the poor,
the blacks against the whites, the Federation against the Borg,
or the Democrats versus the Republicans. It's those of us who
aren't complete idiots against those of us who are.

Mick

I don't quite know what you or the search engine submission company mean by
"gateways".

If they mean that your site will be mentioned or recommended on other sites
then this is good. The more links you have pointed at your site the better.

The best links pointed at your site are those in the DMOZ directory and
those on proper high quality sites of friendly companies like your suppliers
and customers, trade association or whatever. Such links are best set up by
you politely and perhaps persuasively contacting the relevent sites. If
you use the Google toolbar then you can first evaluate your friends sites to
see if a back link to your site is worth having. You need links from pages
with Page Rank (PR) =4 or more.

Some "link farm" sites seem to be set up just as masses of links with no
content of any value whatsoever. These sites are a waste of time and there
is no point paying money to be listed, even if there are hundreds of these
"link farms".

If they mean some peculiar front end for your site I would be very
sceptical. Search engines work best with simple clean sites, no frames and
with plenty of good text and picture content on all pages. A proper title
and description meta tag is vital for every page. Right from at the outset,
you need to make up your mind which page you want people to come to first
and then stick to this decision for many years.

If you say what is your site URL, I can comment on what you have already and
help you.

Best regards, Eric

Eric Johnston
Director, Satellite Signals Limited,
Essex, UK
web: http://www.satsig.net
alternate email: eric@satsig.net


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Run, far, far away. Gateway page is their cuteway of way of renaming a doorway page.

Always be skeptical of any SEO firm that "approaches" you. Especially via email.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html

kind regards -

patrick deese
www.electrondesign.com

On 28 Jun 2003 13:41:53 -0700, search@electrondesign.com (patrick
deese) wrote:


Actually, Patrick, the British way of saying this is "Run! Warn the
village!" and is the cue for all the local inhabitants of the news
group to gather outside the evil SEO firm's castle with flaming brands
(I don't mean Nike here) and pitchforks. You never seen any black and
white horror flicks?

BB
MFW Britpack www.extreme-positioning.co.uk
There is only one war, and it's not the rich against the poor,
the blacks against the whites, the Federation against the Borg,
or the Democrats versus the Republicans. It's those of us who
aren't complete idiots against those of us who are.

Hi again!

Many thanks for your feedback.
The company concerned www.bowmac.net contacted me by telephone
and are a registered company operating in the uk.

I have been having a look around Google, Alta Vista and lycos and guess
what?, they are not
listed on any.

Can anyone recommend a good book?? :-)

Mick

--

Mick wrote:
Books can't keep pace: the subject changes significantly every month and the
detail changes more frequently than that.

You'd be better off hanging around here - after a while your eyes get used
to the darkness and you'll be able to make out quite a few shifty looking
characters in the shadows - most inhabitants are harmless, helpful and
exceptionally well informed.

If you really must be proactive, have a look at
http://searchenginewatch.com and
http://www.spider-food.net


--
PeterMcC
If you feel that any of the above is incorrect,
inappropriate or offensive in any way,
please ignore it and accept my apologies.

Hi Eric

Thanks.
The company seem to build doorways to your site and submit, probably via
some software.

The site I am trying to improve on the rankings is a travel portal
www.internetholidays.co.uk
Any advice/feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time

--
Mick

Mick wrote:
http://www.lancastertoday.co.uk/view...6&SectionID=31

Tracy

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:30:08 +0000 (UTC), "Mick"
<mickdee@btinternet.com> wrote:

I'm reading Mick Foley's best-seller, "Have a Nice Day" and if you're
into wrestling it's a good read. If you want to learn SEO tho, you
could read the excellent tutorial at www.pandia.com

BB
MFW Britpack www.extreme-positioning.co.uk
There is only one war, and it's not the rich against the poor,
the blacks against the whites, the Federation against the Borg,
or the Democrats versus the Republicans. It's those of us who
aren't complete idiots against those of us who are.