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« on: July 02, 2003, 09:40:42 PM »
Recently considering revamping an under utilized web site I began to look for places that focused on web design and search engine optimization when in the daily bucket of spam came a timely invitation to this site WebProWorld, a new site with depth and what appears to be promise.

It seems they publish a successful newsletter and use this BB to promote it and the professionals that subscribe. From my brief observation I suspect anyone can contribute. If anyone has a web site about building web sites that they would recommend I would be interested.

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« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2003, 10:55:01 PM »
Looks interesting, but it made me thinking...
Is there really something existing as "optimization" for the internet/websites?

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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2003, 11:10:37 PM »
SB, I came across this one a while ago - more discussions, many of which look very interesting...if I could only find the time!

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« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2003, 01:53:04 AM »
Well Mrious_be, it does seem so, as people figure out how to get out front, the search engines adjust to the times.


http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t...cadbc0d3fce8c4e

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It seems like Google started testing a new software in the beginning of May (This process alone took about 10 days ) and on the 17th of the month all datacenters (9) had the new software installed, but it seems like something went wrong Google's rankings changed for the worse, it seems like Google elected to display an index that was 4 months old and without its normal ANTI-SPAM filters.

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Thanks Paddy, I’m stealing time myself here, the site has been neglected for 3 years it would seem. wink.gif I thought when i built it, primitive as it was, that we would use it but word of mouth buried us and so I never even entered it in a search engine. We use it only for referral now, but would like to update it and move the contact email to another mailbox. Even though we didn’t submit it to Goggles, Fast, or Alta Vista,  people have found it and sometimes send requests into the business address box. We work in a senior retirement environment in Florida and many request are for answers that could be automated, redirected to, or answered by others. I also suspect if I did a better job of laying out the info and updating it I could eliminate a lot of questions and confusion.  I can probably figure out the mechanics of rebuilding it again, but I want the background page to be flowing rather than sandbox-like which is something I could never do. I built it so it looks like a building rather than a garden, and it really needs a women’s touch smile.gif

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« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2003, 06:54:42 AM »
As Paddy mentioned Webmasterworld is an excellent forum.
I also utilise this site Selfpromotion. I found this an excellent place to start learning about SEO and submission. Has some info on optimisation but focuses more on the submission side - tools to help with site promotion and an extensive list of SEs and indexes worth submitting to. Its actually run by the guy who developed Virex  smile.gif

Interesting list showing the relationship between SEs here which might help if anyone is wondering who to pay for rankings.
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« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2003, 10:35:28 AM »
Thanks iain, I found something wrong with your Selfpromotion link http://selfpromtion.com .
I expanded the source window and did a search to find this:
http://www.selfpromotion.com/?cf=gogden@ptd.net
If that's where you were going?

The relationship chart is interesting although I'm not quite sure what you meant by
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if anyone is wondering who to pay for rankings
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« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2003, 02:58:28 AM »
Ooops, fixed link  blush-anim-cl.gif , yes thats the place SB.

What I meant by "wonder who to pay" is that the chart shows who the pay for inclusion SEs and indexes supply with search results.  If there is a budget for promotion the chart may help in deciding if any of the pay for inclusion SEs are worth it.

Personally I would submit to all the free ones first, and submit to as many indexes/directories as possible to improve link popularity. If there is a small budget for promotion the Inktomi paid inclusion may be worth it, think its just over $40/year.

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« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2003, 08:12:19 AM »
Oh.. Thanks Sandbox smile.gif
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