[ic] Thanks

Philip S. Hempel interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Tue Nov 5 08:26:00 2002


I wanted to bring up an old topic related
to search engines.

This thanks goes out to everyone on the
list as well as Mike Heins.

I had for years had a problem with getting
indexed by a few search engines and just
junk listings by many.

I truly thought it was mostly my problem
and our content.

Due to a suggestion by Mike many months
ago had written to a user to place
a sitemap of all of his products produced
by a simple IC page, I to this suggestion
and this. I placed robots.txt limiting
almost all pages that had mv args.

Well going on two months now and Google
and many others have completley listed
all of my products and as of today
I am sitting at number 1,2,3,4,5 for
most of my major keywords on 5 of about
8 search engines. This is mostly do to
product descriptions!

Because of this our sales have gone from
having 1 sale every 3 weeks to 3-5 sales
per day.

Thanks for all of your help!

BTW This site is just a basic foundation
with very little modifications.

Thanks again the last 4 years with IC have
been very difficult and I know the
following versions of IC are better and
even more accomidating to the search
engines.

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	    Philip S. Hempel
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