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Web site designs "by Tim L. Helmer" is here to deliver you first class Web site promotion services.

The idea is to increase the visibility of your company or organization, and to provide utility to your clients and users by making your site easy to find.

Web site positioning is the one topic that probably makes companies suspicious as there are so many organizations using high pressure sales pitches. Everyone claims to give you top results and if you are like me, you are highly skeptical of such claims. For this reason I have spent much time and effort to research META tags and search engine spiders/directories, and the do's and don'ts of optimizing a site for top placement.

Top positioning

Lucky for me I have been forced into one of the toughest sectors of the internet for positioning, Real Estate. It is however a mixed blessing because on the one hand I have had difficulty in promoting my clients sites to the top of the heap, a very sizeable pyramid. On the other hand I have had to work a lot harder to achieve these results and so have learned a great deal about the intricacies of the game.

To see some of my results visit the links below. You are welcome to verify the results, just go to the search engine in question and type in the keywords. Make sure to check the date of the report as the positioning on some engines is unstable over a period of time.

Do you want to read more about how indexing is done? AltaVista has some good information for you at This Hyperlink. Also you may want to look at Brent Winters Market position newsletter in HTML format. Many other links are available, and if you know how to search, you'll have no problem in finding the information you need.

I have been closely watching the activities of several other promotion companies, many of which have a better sales pitch than I do. They have splashy sites with good designs and lot's of hype, but very little else. Simply submitting your site to search engines is not enough. The pages must be properly constructed to rank high on the list. I'll leave it up to you to decide who is more honest. Do you want to deal with an organization or with an individual? In my estimation Web site promotion is a one man job. It's not rocket science, but it does take care and attention.

Here are some links that I found for you in a few minutes. I hope the links help you, but please don't forget that I am not just a submission service.

www.proboost.com/
www.addme.com/
www.submit-it.com/

What you get

I start by optimizing your Web site for your targeted keywords, then I build the META tags, optimize your site for your chosen keyword phrases and lastly I submit to the top search engines and other major search engines. I use automated tools for META tag generation, site optimization, search engine submission, and ranking. However automated tools can not properly optimize your site, nor can they choose effective keywords. Those tasks are best left to someone who has a vested interest in your position, and who's reputation depends on how well his client's site rank; that's me!

And lastly I submit and resubmit where placement has not occurred. With some engines it has been said that up to six submissions are necessary to get the spider to crawl and index a site. As most engines have a limit of 90 days minimum time elapsed per submission, it can take up to 1.5 years to complete all major search engines submissions. If mistakes are made, this value gets larger. My experience with search engines confirms this.

If you want to play it safe, and visibility is critical, you are better off letting an expert do the optimization and submission for you.

Web site hosting

Looking for affordable quality hosting? I am very picky about who I recommend. The last thing I want, is for a hosting company to make life miserable for my clients. The best I can find in the Alberta area is listed below. They offer 99Meg for $99/Year (USD) with your choice of three different servers. If you click through to them from my site and then buy, I get credit with no additional cost to you. If you are my client I will apply the credit to services I complete for you. Win win!

If you want to order now, just click here for the order form.

Not sure yet? Need more information? I don't blame you. For Tera-Byte pricing info click here.

Real Estate

Real Estate is one of the major proving grounds for Web designers to test their promotional abilities. This sector of the internet is very competitive and is always changing. Here is my brief but concise list of topics that a REWDer should know.

Good design (this is not always the result)
Virtual reality tours
Proper promotion. Please click on these competitive promotion links to view the status reports
1. Links suspended temporarily
2. Calgarycommercial.com
3. Calgaryrealty.net
4. Godlonton.com
5. Goodrealtor.net

Note; Submission reports do not show the correct date. 'Snap' position is not as shown. These bugs have been reported and I hope are under repair.

Virtual reality tours

	Mountains

	Click here to see the Mountain Panoramas

The VR Tours are very cool, or very boring (and stupid), depending on how well implemented they are. The VR table below lists VRML and Java as options, and if you find a small box confining, click on the Jpg column. This area will be updated with 'clickable' tours as soon as there is a need. The 'clickable' tours will be implemented in a sample tour on my Mountain Page soon. I feel that the IPIX tours that are the norm on Real Estate Web Sites, are inferior to the code that is supplied by www.mgisoft.com.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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