RaraAvis - 3:53 am on Jul 17, 2002 (gmt 0)

Hi!

This forum has been simply wonderful. Our agency, that specilizes in database development and graphical web design, has only in the last 6 months began to dip it's toe in SEO (a whole new world).

Unfortunately, in the beginning, we were guilty of creating "keyword-specific" doorway pages that were mere duplicates of each other and paying to submit them thru Inktomi without any real understanding of SE's or the time/effort involved in a true SEO campaign. Although this did get our clients ranked pretty well in *some* SEs.

We are now committed to "best practices" and have spent a tremendous amount of time reading and reading and testing and reading - which is why I'm on sites like this late EVERY night. :)

My Question(s):

What do y'all do for your clients?

• Yahoo! (always)
  
• Inktomi (should you submit all of your optimized pages or your 'best' pages?)
  
• Ask Jeeves/TEOME (do you typically pay for submission here?)
  
• Altavista (too much money? What do you think?)
  
• How do you go about establishing link popularity? Do you get clients to find possible sites or do you find them for them?
  
• Can you give us (or point us to) some resources that discuss fair pricing for SEO?
  
• For a client w/ "limited budget" is Google AdWords better than Overture? Or does it depend on the site/keywords?