Hi Richard
I think these guys rank up there with CMS companies for most annoying call of the week. We looked into it and realised that most of them are using the same software for positioning - Web Position Gold, so we just went out and bought that instead - it works well but doesn't cover some of the bigger sites like Google and Lycos where you have to manually submit.
Regards
David
David R. Supple
Web Strategy Manager
Team Leader Corporate Web Team
CIS Division, Information Services
University of Birmingham
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Tammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 13 May 2003 09:14
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: search engine submissions
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> I'm curious to know whether other Universities routinely
> employ specialist software, or indeed third-party agencies,
> in an effort to get their pages "promoted" across various
> search engine indices? I get contacted by companies flogging
> such software / services at least weekly (almost as often as
> by the ubiquitous CMS sales teams), but to date we haven't
> really seen this as part of our marketing strategy... am I
> burying my head in the sand, or would we be investing a lot
> of time and money for very little return?
>
> Richard Tammar
> Website Manager
> University of Sussex
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