[thelist] Re: Not selling anything/no ads: any reason for search engine submission?

[Cayley Vos]

Search engines are the glue that holds the net together.  By default, if you
have a well designed site with lots of regular text and follow standard
government usability regulations (such as alt naming images) your site will
be picked up (eventually) by at least google, possibly inktomi and FAST.
Doing a quick submission to DMOZ will complete the process, and provide
basic search engine awareness for your client with nearly no extra effort -
provided said usability rules were followed.





on 4/12/02 8:16 AM, thelist-request at lists.evolt.org at
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:

>
>> I have a client who has a site with no e-commerce on it, and no
>> advertisement.  To my mind, that would imply that he shouldn't really need
>> to be on many search engines, particularly the pay-for ones.  I'm trying
> to
>> save the guy some money, but he's of the way of thinking that if he isn't
> on
>> the search engines, his site is screwed.
>>
>> I reckon that if your real-world advertising is good enough to keep you in
>> business and you add your web address to all existing advertisement, that
>> should be enough to garner some interest for your site.
>>
>> Of course, I need a better way of saying just that, so does anybody have
> an
>> opinion on this?
>>




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