[thelist] client needs search engine help...

[Canfield, Joel]

A company for which I've done network support, but not web work uses a
search engine specialist. He's a contractor who works with their web design
team. His job is to make ensure search engine rankings for a specific group
of phrases.

He makes recommendations for the code (meta tags, content) and does the
submissions manually. At first it sounded like a lot of extra work, but they
asked me to verify that they were getting their money's worth, and they are.
They show up in the top ten (sometimes multiple times, freqently #1) in
every search engine I tried.

He works WITH the designers (also consultants, not in-house.) He makes it
his living and has no interest in taking away web work, so he's not
competition; he's added value.

Joel D Canfield
Applications Manager
Magis Networks, Inc.
jcanfield at magisnetworks.com
858.523.2328 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Corry [mailto:webshot at neoncowboy.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 12:39 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] client needs search engine help...

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I'm afraid of giving up a little
control to a 'search engine strategist' or whatever, and losing my nice site
maintenance contract when they offer to undercut me. Do any of you work with
people providing these services that you would reccomend?

thanks,
John
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