Gil0713 - 8:18 pm on Mar 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

As many of you have mentioned, no one can guarantee a top position in any of the search engines. I do seo for a company in Connecticut as well as on the side.

I was updating my consulting site as well as the rankings for where the companies I have worked with rank. I was surprised that Google already indexed and placed among the top 5 results an eBay store I optimized for a client 2 weeks ago! I also noticed that Yahoo has among the top 5 (#2 in reality) one of the pages I optimized out of 112,000,000 pages - that is kind of neat.

To address the original question that started this thread. I would recommend any merchant to hire an seo consultant not to optimize his/her site, but to train the merchant staff on how to optimize the site- that is what I have begun to do.