On 29-Apr-2005, Don <smidon@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I have been in contact with someone who claims that they can get my
> > website on the first page of Google results for our keywords in one week
> > for $1000.

So the quality and content of the site are irrelevent?
He'll get any site to first page in a week?

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:58:33 -0400, info <info@n0mail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:49:55 +0000, ato_zee wrote:
>
>>
>> On 29-Apr-2005, Don <smidon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > I have been in contact with someone who claims that they can get my
>>> > website on the first page of Google results for our keywords in one week
>>> > for $1000.
>>
>> So the quality and content of the site are irrelevent?
>> He'll get any site to first page in a week?
>
>I didn't think it was possible. I found out about his page from a Google
>alert about my keywords. One day after that, his webpage was on the first
>page of results for the keywords.
>
>Apparently he wants to make some modifications to the site. I didn't put
>the keywords on the site too many times because it would sound irrevelent
>to the content. They are the first two words of the <title>, however, and
>I'm going to put them in the <h1> tags and move the secondary keywords to
>the <h2> tags as was recommended here...
>
>Also, it seems that he has many subdomains of his site that have a page
>rank of 5. He seems to focus that with just one or a few links towards
>his clients. That's what I am assuming from my research. I've seen from
>the cached pages that the content has been entirely changed within a week
>or so.
>
>I think the quality of the site content is good. Customers tell me that
>it's good (easy to navigate and use) even before they know I made it. It
>must have boosted occupancy by 50% at least. It would be nice to be on
>the front page of Google though without having to pay huge AdWords fees.
>Why are we #245 for our business name while the competition is #1 and our
>other competitor is #5 -- while on MSN we are #1 for both of our desired
>search terms? I don't know but I'm going to make some more changes and
>see what happens over the next few months.

Because MSN works off on-page optimisation and Google works off
off-page optimisation. That means lots of links. This is beginning to
sound like an SEO Dave-type I'll point links from my gazillion PR5
pages at your home page operation.
If I've understood everyone correctly, of course. Dave, isn't it
something similar that you do?

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