Hi Jac, I agree 100% with Rudy. Nothing in necessary to get you a top placement other than good, smart coding. However, there are resources I have used from time to time to as helps:
http://www.webposition.com/ (helps with your keywords and lets you know where you are placed on certain search engines and if you dropped or gained a position) Then there are various free webpages out there that will check your page to see if it is optimized: http://www.northernwebs.com/set/setsimjr.html http://www.wordtracker.com/ http://www.scrubtheweb.com/abs/meta-check.html http://www.keywordcount.com/ If you are really wanting to spend money on including your website with search engines, I would recommend http://inktomi.com/ A word with you, Rudy. I would suggest that you not ignore Altavista and Yahoo. They are heavy hitting search engines as well. Am I supposed to be off today? :) HTH, Will -----Original Message----- From: rudy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 7:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: Search Engines > ... or could someone recommend a better option first of all, if they contacted you unsolicited, it's spam don't EVER respond to spammers, and above all, NEVER EVER buy whatever they're selling now, moving on to the question of search engine inclusion you. don't. need. it. it's really simple to get a good ranking in search engines there are three main steps 1. have good content 2. get reputable sites to link to you 3. see step 1 i've got fairly decent rankings for my own site in google and yahoo (e.g. sql consultant, doomsday algorithm) and the other search engines i frankly don't care about if you have good content, related either to database or web development, let me know, and i'll link to you you do not need to pay for inclusion and you do not need to have some company do it for you you don't even need to submit your url to any search engines let them find you rudy ____ . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
