Oh C'mon! How?!?!?! Telepathy? ;-) I know that there are other means such as word of mouth and as Craig said there's probably not a way to verify these numbers anyway ... besides I'm just quoting what I read. But whether you agree with the 80% number or not I would think surely the outrageous fees charged by competent SEOs is proof enough of their significance. On the Google lists I participate in, its commonly acknowledged that getting dropped from Google can break the back of many internet businesses.
-----Original Message----- From: Turner, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:17 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: [OFF-TOPIC] RE: RewriteRules and Standalone Tomcat If the site has real value, the customers will find it all by themselves. John > -----Original Message----- > From: neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:03 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: [OFF-TOPIC] RE: RewriteRules and Standalone Tomcat > > > You're comparing apples and oranges .. and pears (staying > with the analogies > ;-)). A high profile site of course does not need the > engines to the same > extent as a small site. Additionally, a small site with a > mature link base > (100s or 1000s of grade A links) will not recieve as much > traffic from them > either. For a new site (first year or so) its just the > opposite. Besides, > I was including places like Yahoo!, AOL, when I refer to > search engine. > Granted these are CPCs (fake search engines) but nonetheless > google probably > has 80% of the search engine market ... as for the 80% of > traffic coming > from search engines - its a statistic I recently read in a > book. I can look > it up for you if interested. If sounds though like the truth of this > statistic has a lot to do with whether you're comparing > apples ... oranges > ... or pears. > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
