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Would it help me with search engines to publish these highly rich, content targeted relevant text? Additionally of course all content is pristine and original, never been online.
If these were originally emails, I'd advise checking that there's no inappropriate or confidential stuff, other than that, just a bit of context would help, plus a neat navigation system.
...thousands of inquiries that I saved over the years, over 10 000 emails, rich with content...
As long as your Terms and Conditions allows the reprinting of the emails sent to you.
...search engines are not concerned with origins.
Ah, but there's the issue. The legal fraternity is...
I'm sorry but I don't understand what the above comment means!
Additionally, how do I get some replies in the gray boxes like you guys did above?
Additionally, how do I get some replies in the gray boxes like you guys did above?
Use the quote tag. I am going to misspell the word quote as qote in this example so you can see the tag.
[qote]words you want in gray box[/qote]
[edited by: StoutFiles at 3:53 am (utc) on June 9, 2008]
But still...can someone translate the following comment for me in plain English? ;)
Ah, but there's the issue. The legal fraternity is...
[edited by: Oimachi2 at 4:20 am (utc) on June 9, 2008]
Ah, but there's the issue. The legal fraternity is...
Sorry to be so vague. I'm wondering where the emails came from and considering whether, if the emails are from third parties - customers, for example - you have permission to use them for the purposes you describe.
Syzygy
IANAL, and as I understand it it's a grey area, but you are not entitled to reproduce those emails without permission.
I try always to ask to quote more than the tiniest bland fragment, and occasionally (when not given permission) I have to rewrite to get the point across but without the original words/details/fingerprints.
Rgds
Damon
However, what you could do is take your replies to the queries and rewrite them carefully, making all of the data anonymous. That could give you the raw material of a fairly extensive FAQ. There will almost certainly be a lot of duplication, so you'll need to pare it down and edit it. You will also find that some of the questions are too specific for you to use.
You'll need to either ignore the email that prompted your response, or simply paraphrase a specific enquiry to a more genral one that goes well with the answer.
The big issue is always confidentiality; I'd advise never to use people's real names without specific consent.
I could do this easily with a find and replace script. I just run all the correspondances with the client's name, email address and URL and auto delete everthing.
I think that would be best and ok.
You'd be most unwise to simply auto process all this stuff and shove it on your site; as well as the copyright and privacy concerns, there's a 'good taste' issue, relevance, and the little worry that visitors to your site will get very confused and leave.
You seem to be thinking much more about robots than human beings, and that - usually - does not make a successful site.
Actually I have good placement and content already.
Maybe I should concentrate on conversion ratio instead?
I'm already #1 on Yahoo and #3 on Google. With a multitude of other related terms also...
I think that maybe a website redesign and a better system to book customers would be a better time investment.
However, things are getting slowly better, I am somehow booking some jobs. It will take time I guess.
[edited by: engine at 8:27 am (utc) on June 11, 2008]
[edit reason] No specifics, thanks [/edit]
My thread is so long that I actually forgot what my original questions was!
The last reply relates to my website design business and not my moving company!
But both have a lot of support tickets and emails regardless!
Cheers!
