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Re: Search engines - what is the point?

Subject: Re: Search engines - what is the point?
From: Whiskers
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:56:49 +0100
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On 2006-06-29, AllButOne <jefielwjflw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is one thing I do not understand about search engines.
>
> If you type, for example, "Japan tourism business" into Google you get 
> 26,000,000 replies.
>
> Now, how can any company involved in business tourism who is not in the 
> top 100, let along the top 500 compete.  No one is going to scroll 
> through more than a dozen or so pages at most.  Certainly not more than 
> 50 pages, and that would be unusual.
>
> So, my point is: if one was creating a website for a new business, would 
> that person not have a tremendous disadvantage since noone would ever 
> see the company's page since it would be so far down the ratings.
>
> I know that one could buy Google adspace and be one of the sponsored 
> links, but if you didn't do this, how would anyone see you.
>
> And can anyone suggest a guide to understanding how search engines work 
> for the novice?
>
> Thanks, very much appreciated.


Ask:    <http://sp.uk.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml>
Google: <                                www.google.com/support/webmasters/">http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/>
Yahoo!: <                                help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/webmaster/webmaster-01.html">http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/webmaster/webmaster-01.html>

See also <                                searchenginewatch.com/">http://searchenginewatch.com/> - lots of interesting 
information.

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