markd - 8:21 am on Oct 8, 2001 (gmt 0)

Hello GoogleGuy

My knowledge of your search engine is far below that of many of the people that post here, so please forgive what may be a pretty naive question:

I understand that Google places a high emphasis on incoming links and the quality of those links.

So I am wondering, if I have a site which contains IMHO some very useful content, but I am myself a small, SME and therefore cannot rely on getting incoming links from other sites which maybe adjudged as providing quality incoming links (as defined by the popularity of the site).

Obviously, I don't only want my site to be listed, but to have pages returned when someone conducts a search which is genuinely related to my information.

By the way, I will fiercely resist participating in any 'artificial, link farm' sites as this is against not only my ethics as a business but do not want to be (rightly) penalised by search resources such as Google.

As you can probably tell, my tongue is in my cheek in asking this question, but in a nutshell...

How would a site such as this get listed by Google?

Thanks