Sorry about OT but what about web site promotion companies?

[Robert Johnson]

Hi all. I keep getting email from a web site promotion company that promises
to submit my site to 300,000 search engines. Their site looks good but I
wonder if it is money wasted.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Robert

[middletree]

There are lots of companies otu there who do this. I get it all the time.
Bottom line is, how many visits are you going to get from Google, Yahoo,
AOL, and MSN? And how many are you going to get from the other 299,996
search engines? The latter will give you so few that it won't justify the
cost.

If any company can get you lots of views from the search engines that people
actually use, then it would be worth it.



"Robert Johnson" <robert@therjohnsoncompany.com> wrote in message
news:bg47a5$km0$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi all. I keep getting email from a web site promotion company that

promises

> to submit my site to 300,000 search engines. Their site looks good but I
> wonder if it is money wasted.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
>

[darrel]

> Hi all. I keep getting email from a web site promotion company that
promises

> to submit my site to 300,000 search engines. Their site looks good but I
> wonder if it is money wasted.

There's only one...maybe two search engines that matter. (Google, Yahoo, and
maybe a debateable few others).

There are a handful of good directories in any given industry.

I think you can do better on your own.

-Darrel

[Gary White]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:19:26 -0500, "darrel"
<darrel.austin@courts.state.mn.us> wrote:

>There's only one...maybe two search engines that matter. (Google, Yahoo, and
>maybe a debateable few others).

Looking at some recent log file analysis for a site of mine:

1 Google 6,814
2 Yahoo 3,502
3 MSN 981
4 AOL Search 778
5 Altavista 231
6 Dogpile 64
7 iWon 41
8 Overture/Goto 27
9 Lycos 23

There were a few others in single digits.

>There are a handful of good directories in any given industry.

This is true. Industry/market/topic specific search tools should not
be forgotten.


Gary

[Robert Johnson]

Gary, interesting stats. How do you capture this information?

Regards,

Robert
"Gary White" <reply@newsgroup.please> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:19:26 -0500, "darrel"
> <darrel.austin@courts.state.mn.us> wrote:
>

> >There's only one...maybe two search engines that matter. (Google, Yahoo,

and

> >maybe a debateable few others).

>
> Looking at some recent log file analysis for a site of mine:
>
> 1 Google 6,814
> 2 Yahoo 3,502
> 3 MSN 981
> 4 AOL Search 778
> 5 Altavista 231
> 6 Dogpile 64
> 7 iWon 41
> 8 Overture/Goto 27
> 9 Lycos 23
>
> There were a few others in single digits.
>
>

> >There are a handful of good directories in any given industry.

>
> This is true. Industry/market/topic specific search tools should not
> be forgotten.
>
>
> Gary

[Peter Connolly]

"Robert Johnson" <robert@therjohnsoncompany.com> wrote in message
news:bg47a5$km0$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi all. I keep getting email from a web site promotion company that

promises

> to submit my site to 300,000 search engines. Their site looks good but I
> wonder if it is money wasted.
>

I drop sites into Google and [url]http://dmoz.org/[/url] (which is used as a source by
several search engines), and leave it at that. It tends to work.

I'd suggest that you concentrate on making your site more attractive to the
Google spider (this is generic advice...I haven't looked at your site!).

If you respond to a company that advertises itself through spam, you are
contributing to the problem. If you want to use a web site promotion
company, actively look for one that doesn't use spam techniques to contact
you....

HTH,

Pete.

[Joe Makowiec]

On 28 Jul 2003 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Robert Johnson wrote:

> Gary, interesting stats. How do you capture this information?

Got access to your raw logs? Run them through a logfile analyzer. Or
analyze them by hand.

--
Joe Makowiec can be reached at:
[url]http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe[/url]

[Gary White]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 16:45:22 -0700, "Robert Johnson"
<robert@therjohnsoncompany.com> wrote:

>Gary, interesting stats. How do you capture this information?

I just run my log files through a program called WebLog Expert. It
provides those, along with lots of other interesting information. It
will tell you what key words or search phrases were used, what
browsers, operating systems, etc. and more.


Gary