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quest to develop and publish world's number one business related web site I knew we had cracked it when we entered NorthernLight at No 7 out of 4,876,060 sites on key phrase 'business start up'.Coming from a Sales and marketing background, with a background in IT, but no knowledge of Internet, I had to approach everything from ground up, with an open mind.
This proved to be of significant advantage, since I was prepared to listen to everyone, try anything, reject bad and improve on good.
We also appear on Lycos, Google, AltaVista, Excite and a myriad of other search engines and know that with 12 months work ahead we will be No1 Business site by 2002.
So here are my ten top tips for successful web placement
1 Most web designers assume that customer is reader, wrong. It's a bit like assuming customer for an old people's home is resident - it isn't it's residents 45 year old daughter. Therefore sell to her and place is full.
The main customer for a web site is 'gulliver' or 'arachnia' or whatever search engine spider is called. Observe it, profile it, get to know it intimately, what does it like and loathe. How can you get it's attention?
2 In my experience only AltaVista takes seriously. I know this because I used mingmong21 as a keyword and, despite all search engines we appear on, if I search on all of them for 'mingmong21' I only turn up on AltaVista. Don't put too much store in keywords.3 The
of<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 128435"> page is<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 128436"> single most important thing to Google, Excite and a host of other search engines, so why, why, why are we so vain that we call our web site 'XYZ inc.' if they knew who we were before they got on<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 128437"> web they would have called us on<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 128438"> telephone. The <TITLE> of your site should be what you do, not who you are.<p>4 Many of<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 128439"> search engines pick up<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 128440"> first paragraph of<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 128441"> <BODY> content (in other words what's written on<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 128442"> page). Don't confuse it with 'last updated on ...' and counters, etc. Just have a simple paragraph that says what you do and ... use<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 128443"> same words as<IMG height=12 src="/the2.jpg" alt="repparttar 128444"> <TITLE>. <br><br></font></td><!-- google_ad_section_end --></tr><tr><td>Cont'd on page 2 ==<a class="mlink" href="2-How_To_Recognize_a_Good_Automatic_Search_Engine_Submitter-28421.htm">></a></td></tr></table><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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