Re: The Proverbial Cat online store now open

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:13:38 +0000 (UTC), "The Proverbial Cat"
<proverbialcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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.

Just an FYI, if you've gone and developed relationships with people in
a particular forum, wouldn't you want to leverage that in your
announcement, so we realize this is someone we know (and whose
creative efforts we may be interested in) as opposed to a random
stranger with whom we have no investment, emotional or otherwise?
That's something I've gleaned from my various marketing efforts
online.

Coming in under the mask of anonymity completely defeats that.

-Wendy

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