Posts Tagged ‘web’

Death of the search engine? - Arelis finds a new home

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

It was only a matter of time before an effective tactic was developed to gain widespread competitive advantage from the increasing reliance placed upon links and link text by the major search engines.

Simplicity itself, the technique involves using a version of arelis ( www.arelis.org/ ) in a radically new and different way.

The technique currently sweeping the market has gained proven competitor advantage and with the utlilization of existing technology in a clever and unique way, takes only minutes to perform. The danger lies in that its use may become so widespread that websites will no longer be obtaining a tactical advantage, they will require its use to exist in the world of free search engine traffic.

Arelis allows users to download pages of links, categorise these links, automatically produce link pages based upon them and provide webmasters with the contact address for each site on the link page.

This combination of features allows webmasters to download pages from link exchanges sites. The sites contained on these pages have already indicated their willingness to trade links by joining these link exchange sites.

Arelis automatically obtains link text and can easily be formatted to incorporate the look and feel of the site in question. Thus, in a few simple actions link pages are complete for the webmaster’s site.

The webmaster then uses the templates built into the system to mail the webmasters of the other sites. The mail is typically personalised to incorporate the webmaster name and the sites which are proposed to link. Again, the system inputs these details into the draft mail for you.

The mails are then sent. Some webmasters have reported huge increases in their acceptance rate within a week. Those sites that accept will thus have a reciprocal link in place without any further work required. The process takes minutes for potentially hundreds of reciprocal links and can be used time and again on the same or different sites.

In this way the wise webmasters are generating hundreds of reciprocal links within minutes.

Is the age of links dead? Not yet, the age of the reciprocal link delivering competitive advantage is still here, but soon it will be an essential weapon just to exist.

A free download version and detailed reciew of Arelis and other tools are available at Arelis

SEO from a Web Design Company

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Everyone now does SEO, have you noticed?  Probably not, you might not even know what “SEO” actually is.  Part of the reason why so many companies now appear to be offering SEO sevices is precisely because of this fact, SEO is very much an unknown quantity.  In fact, even those who practice SEO cannot come to any consensus over how to define it.  This is because it has many facets and knows no boundaries as to what can be done to promote or optimise a website. A lot of the companies that now sell “SEO ” services are Web Design Companies. They have realised that not only do people want a website constructing, they want it promoted as well.

The sentiment is perfectly legitimate here, you build a site, then you market it online for your clients.  However as with everything else in life, you get what you pay for.  Unfortunately some proport to sell SEO services at fraction of the cost it takes to run a successful campaign.  As there is no accept consensus over what SEO is, and with many people procuring the service unclear over what they are buying into, businesses end up forking out menial amounts for a sub standard offering.  They might see an SEO service as like buying any other service, such as window cleaner.  But the amount and quality of the work you receive varies significantly, despite it all being sold as “SEO”.

Of course what someone would deem a “decent” SEO campaign varies between client to client and site to site.  A site in a uncompetitive arena might only need the basic on page work to rank for their chosen keywords.  However the problem comes when web design companies offer a one sized fits all, fixed priced SEO product.  For sums of less than one hundred pounds per month, it is very difficult to see how these companies can offer a comprehensive SEO package, as it would take several hours a month to do it to an acceptable standard.