Re: Search Engine Placement!!!

I agree with this post (and laughed along with it).

I feel it is better to make good META tags and manually submit your page to
each major search engine.  I used to used submit-it.com, but now I just go
to each site - Yahoo, HotBot, Lycos, etc. and do it there.

Jeff Franzreb

Internet Developer
Summit Professional Systems, Inc.
http://www.summitpro.com
jfranzreb(at)summitpro.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Abramovich <mabram(at)balance.com.au>
To: Ricky Hallenback <guitarlad(at)hotmail.com>
Cc: dogger(at)junctionnet.com <dogger(at)junctionnet.com>; hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
<hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Date: Thursday, July 02, 1998 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Search Engine Placement!!!


>I'm sorry, but I think this is very bad advice to give anyone. These free
>submission services do a poor job. They generally submit to 200 or 500
>engines or whatever, but they usually include 5 good engines - Infoseek etc
>- and 495 ones that you've never heard of like the Alaskan Nude Sunbathers
>Society's search engine.  Plus they do nothing to ensure you rate well in
>the good engines. The whole job is far better done manually and by someone
>who has a serious interest in the site, ie you.
>
>Ricky Hallenback wrote:
>
>> Hey Kris!
>> Did you submit your site to Yahoo, or any other engine for that matter?
>> You can go to http://www.submit-it.com and do all of them at once.
>> ----Original Message Follows----
>> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 22:22:25 -0600
>> From: Kris Fulgham <dogger(at)junctionnet.com>
>> To: Cri <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
>> Subject: Search Engine Placement!!!
>>
>> Does anyone here on the list know any secrets to get in the top ten for
>> Yahoo? I want to get there but don't know how! I have tried meta tags
>> and that didn't work. I am not even listed. Please let me know if there
>> some tutorials out there I don't know about! + I am 13 so I can't pay to
>> have it done by some company!
>>
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