[thelist] client needs search engine help...

[Alan Mccoy]

The web shop I work for has a division that does ONLY search engine
placement consulting. They use Top Dog and a few other apps to maintain a
rapidly growing list of clients. I'm not sure of their exact methods, but
they are doing more business than they can keep up with. And I do know that
the work that they do on a site doesn't interfere with the design work that
we do on that same site. They're a pretty seamless bunch.

I think as long as you can draw clear lines of responsibility for site
development (like we do between our development staff and the search engine
placement staff) everything should go fairly smoothly.

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Alan McCoy
amccoy at altairtek.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Corry [mailto:webshot at neoncowboy.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 3:39 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] client needs search engine help...
> 
> 
> I got this from one of my better clients yesterday...
> 
> >we don't rank/show up on search engines at the moment.
> > Somebody was in
> > and pitched me on creating an entry page for search engines 
> with 'Top dog'
> > software to get us showing up and ranked.  We pay only based on
> > how we place in
> > the search engines.  I am considering going that route to
> > increase hits.... what
> > do you think?
> 
> I can agree that they need help...but I don't really want to 
> help them with
> this...learning the intricacies of search engine placementn 
> and patiently
> tweaking code a little at at time to produce the maximum 
> level of exposure
> is not why I got into this field. I *do* feel obligated to 
> help them with
> this though, and see it as sort of my responsibility since I built and
> maintain their site. All of their pages feature titles, 
> descriptions and
> keywords...so I haven't been totally derelict in duty.
> 
> I need some help.
> 
> Is this 'Top Dog' thing worth its salt? 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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