Re: The Proverbial Cat online store now open

Amy Guskin wrote:
> If you're somebody who's here regularly and whom we know and love, that's
> just great. But if that's the case, I can't understand why you wouldn't want
> us to know that.

There are a lot of reasons people may choose to stay anonymous.
As I said before, my reasons are my own.

> Incidentally, if what you're offering is a good value and you have
> well-crafted text on your home page, people will find out about your store
> and visit it, and link to it, and search engines will index you accordingly
> based on what it is your selling/doing: you won't have to ask people to link
> to you to help artificially boost your ranking. I have precisely zero pages
> that link to my latest online commerce venture, and it comes up first on
> Google in several searches on the basic subject. I'm not a fan of trying to
> fake out search engines by any means (hidden text, sharing links with a
> zillion other unrelated businesses, etc.), so I offer this advice with all
> sincerity.

I wasn't asking for "artificial" linking. However, if folks do like
the site, then linking to it increases it's ranking in google. Do a
google search on proverbial cat and you'll see there is a lot of
competition out there. In the CafePress tutorial section on how
to generate business they state:

> The absolute best way to get listed with Google is to build links
> to your Web site. Indeed, this is the best way to get listed for
> free with all the major crawlers listed on this page. Crawlers
> follow links, so if you have good links pointing at your Web site,
> the crawlers are more likely to find and include your pages. If
> you have a Web site, build a link to your CafePress.com Shop.
> Be sure to tell your friends and family about your Shop and have
> them link to it as well.

That's all I was asking. If you like the shop, have a web page,
and would be willing to link to it, I'd appreciate it. Nothing more.
There are a lot of folks who simply don't realize the way in which
search engine ranking occurs and wouldn't have thought
about adding a link from their own page.

As for the rest of your rant, well, I haven't the time or energy
to reply to it. You obviously have some very strong feelings
that are the result of events pre-dating my post and they are
just as obviously filtering your perceptions of me and what I
have to say. When people are so emotionally invested in a
position they tend to defend it to the death. I've had my
fill of these kinds of battles. Which is one of the reasons
I went into lurker mode.

Adieu.

The Proverbial Cat
http://www.cafepress.com/proverbialcat



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