Stratus42 - 10:09 am on May 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

thanks folks..

Yeah.. here's the thing.. this company that promised the search engine promotion is just silly - typos in the email, and their site has lousey Search Engine Ops..

The very funny thing is.. my boss hired me as a web designer over 3 years ago.. over a year and a half ago I identified over a dozen key issues with our current site .. INCLUDING the fact that it is impossible for search engine spiders to crawl it.

Once ever 6 months or so, he picks up one of the things I included in my report of 1.5 years past and pretends he's just discovered an issue with our website and gets all riled up about it.

This time it was SEO - spurred on by his spam mail "guaranteeing" top placement! for £150/month. Anyways. I did the research.. and gave him a 4 page document on all the things we could do to increase our PR... including: remove the frameset, make our top page NOT be just a big flash thing, include a link to a comprehensive site map from each page, include our key words in headings, anchor text, and copy.. etc.. etc..

What do I get back from him?.. "I talked with the company that sent me that email - he said we need 'meta tags' .. " uh huh.. no sh!t sherlock....

arrrrggh! how annoying is this. at any rate.. if ALL this promotion company recommended to him to increase the pr of our site was 'meta tags'.. then they are OBVIOUSLY a lousey company - because any fool could see we already have them, but have 100 other issues affecting our PR on SEs..

Lana