What did I find?

Zero links back to her own marketing site. Wait minute, there must be some mistake here. Maybe this isn't a page that she shares links with - even though that was one of her strongest points. Tried another page on site. This one was a little better, 103 links. And another, and another... All with similar or worse results.

Gosh, most sites easily get twice that many links without even trying. Well, I thought, maybe this isn't fair to her. The real test is where her page ranks in Search Engines. So I looked at meta tags that had been placed in source code of main page. Lots of good key words there. I took some of them and went to Search Engines.

Guess what?

None of key words in Meta tags brought this site up in top 30 listings.

As was so clearly stated in article that this great webmaster had written, "if your web page is not in top 10 to 20 listings you might as well not be listed at all".

Why on earth would we want to spend 75 bucks on a report that is written by someone who either doesn't practice what they preach, or is out and out lying to us?

Now don't misunderstand me. There are certainly some very knowledgeable people who understand search engines very well. Just make sure that you put them to test BEFORE you send them your money.

Design a Page! Make a template page. For an example visit http://www.anownsite.com/articles emplate.html. View source, copy and paste it in an HTML-editor. Make necessary changes.

Now take one (1) main keyword and write your text around it. Mix another keyword into it. Keep number of words between 400 and 800. (Use Text Statistics in Tools Menu of Note Tab Light, available at http://www.notetab.com/.)

Put your text in template. Use keyword as your page name.

Now visit http://www.bruceclay.com/. For this particular subject visit Search Engine Ranking Tools (but definitely read everything else on his outstanding site). Read all information carefully. Apply exactly as written by Bruce Clay.

Finish it. Now visit http://www.analogx.com/. Download Keyword Extractor. Count words in your page. Sort them by weight. Keywords should rank high and must be present in title, description, keywords, comment, alt's and links (main one at start and NOT next or close to eachother). Review Bruce Clay information. Keywords should also appear in body text. A thumb of rule: if body text contains 400 words, keywords should appear twice, at 600 three times and at 800 four times in body. Rewrite if necessary and finish with 1 keyword occurrence in closing paragraph.

Submission Time! Now your page has a fair chance of relative high ranking. Review Bruce Clay. Follow his submission instructions.

Success to you.