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Can you guarantee all search engines will list my
site? Can you guarantee me a top position?
We will submit your site to
a great number of resources, but we can not make them index your page. Many will
personally visit your web
page and will make a subjective decision concerning inclusion. Normally, about 95% of our submissions
are
successful.
If you order any of our
"annual" promotional services, we provide suggestions for
improving your search engine position. However, your actual position is
determined by a number of factors, some of which are out of our control -
such as:
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the amount of
competition you face - there may be thousands (or millions) of web
pages with
similar products
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your domain name
(URL) - keywords in the address are influential
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the number of
relevant links inbound to your site. Our submissions will help your
link popularity but you may have competitors who have spent years
building 1000's of links
-
competition who
"buy" a keyword position - see below
For more details about
the "realities of search engine positioning, please visit www.artcraftmarketing.com/searchenginereality.htm
We will not employ
dubious means to "trick" search engines such as hidden text, key
word spam, doorway pages, etc. These represent tremendous ways to have
your site banned completely from important indexes.
There are firms who will
guarantee a top 10 position. They generally charge $300-$500 per term per
search engine.
You may also
"buy" your keyword position. Yahoo, Google, Looksmart, and
others allow you to bid on select terms. The cost varies depending upon
demand, but most charge between $.50 to $3.00 per term each time your site
is displayed. Participants could (and do) spend hundreds or
thousands of dollars monthly on these programs.
Special note about
"pay for inclusion" resources - some of our packages include
registration with PFI search engines. This means your site should be
quickly indexed by select popular search engines (normally within one
week) This does not guarantee specific position for any particular search
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Do you send out reports? Can I see a complete list of
the submission sites?
We use a wide variety of
resources when making your submissions. We also manually submit your site
to many locations, including the craft related. There is no one report we
could generate to reflect all the submissions made. The time required to
prepare such a report would be cost prohibitive, and we prefer not to
increase our prices to compensate.
We have spent literally
hundreds of hours compiling our list of craft-related resources to which
we submit your site. Our competitors would just love get their hands on it
as it provides us with a tremendous competitive edge - no one else
provides such a targeted marketing system. For that reason, we consider
the list of craft sites proprietary. However, you will receive
confirmation messages from a number of the craft related locations when we
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I see website marketing services on the web - why
should I chose you?
We have been serving the
needs of arts and craft webmasters and site owners for years and were the
first to provide specialized Internet marketing to that community. We
maintain the largest and most popular arts and craft banner advertising
resource "Arts &
Craft Banner Network", the largest and most popular arts and
craft top sites system "Top Craft Sites Report", the very
popular and high traffic virtual craft mall "The
Country Crafts Gallery", the very popular gift shop directory
"100 Gift Shops", the
new craft link exchange resource "Craft Link Exchange",
the high traffic arts and craft links directory "Arts
& Crafts Link Directory" and more! We have the experience and
marketing muscle to successfully market your website and to increase your
traffic, sales, and profits.
Some of the biggest names
in arts & craft website design trust us to market their client's
sites. We have exclusive privileges with some of the most popular craft
directories and search engines serving the arts and crafts community.
Because we are
"debt-free" and keep overhead to a minimum, we can provide you
with the best service at the lowest cost. We do not maintain a large staff
with fancy titles. We utilize state-of-the-art equipment and
software to provide professional and efficient service.
We have a
tremendous customer satisfaction rating, and receive the majority of new
clients as the result of referrals.
We are a Christian
based company, and do what we say we will do.
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Why should I select the enhanced annual submission plan over the standard?
The enhanced package provides for:
- Registration with resources which
require a fee for listing - we pay the fee for you
- Submissions to 100,000+ locations
(versus 20,000)
- Submission of five of your web pages
to top search engines (versus 2)
- Preferred listing in the Top 100 Craft Sites Report
- 25,000 banner exposure on the Arts
& Crafts Banner Network (versus 10,000)
- A more prominent display on our very
popular Arts and Crafts Website Directory, including banner display
and higher page placement.
- Prominent links on our new 100 Gift
Shops gift directory.
- New!
Inclusion of your link on high Google PageRank pages which boosts your
own PageRank
There are other differences,
but the bottom line is that we give
preferential treatment to clients willing to spend twice as much - it
only
makes sense, and is the way we would want to be treated.
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I
use a shared ISP
(Geocities, AOL, Hypermart, Ebay, etc). Can you still promote my
site?
Yes we can - however - some
search engines do
not like shared addresses and may not readily index them. Because of our extensive experience,
we are often successful in getting your site indexed when other submission services fail.
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What
are the requirements for banners?
Many of our promotional
packages include banner advertising. To participate, we require banners to
be located on your own server (we do not host them for you), and be of a
specific size. Banners must be 468 X 60 pixels in physical size, and less
than 18,000 bytes (18K) in file memory size. You must provide us with the
the web address (URL) of your banner image on your web site. We cannot
accept copies of the image via email attachments. Banners are quite easy
to make or you may ask your site designer to create one for you. There are
also free banner design services available online, or we have found that
Cheryl at http://ww.primgraphics.com and
Trina at http://craftygraphics.com/ both
make very attractive banners for a very small cost.
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Can I renew my
submission plan?
Yes, you will be given the option of renewing
at the end of your promotion period, normally at a special "customer
loyalty" price. A large percentage of our clients renew to keep the traffic coming. return to top
Do
you use email or spam to promote my web site?
NO! We detest spam. We
send no unsolicited emails to anyone, nor do we provide your email address
to anyone other than target submission sites which require it for
registration. To protect your privacy, we use a secondary email address
for many of your submissions. This dramatically cuts down the amount of
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Do "pay for inclusion" search engines registrations create
an additional charge or recurring fee?
We only use "pay
for inclusion" resources with a one time or annual fee (which is
included in our fee). We do not use resources which require payment for
each "click" to your web site, or have you "bid" for
keyword position. Our selection of "pfi" resources for your site
will be determined by the promotional plan you choose and your existing
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Privacy, Disclosure & TOS
Statements - Please Read
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Privacy
Statement
Information you provide is never sold or made available to a
third party for mailing list purposes. Obviously, we have to provide
information to search engines, message boards, and other locations to promote your site.
In the case of popular link pages or other submission sites known to generate unwanted mail,
we will use a secondary email address (we will provide). Credit card information is transmitted
via a secure server (PayPal) - we do not even see your account number. There
will never be a recurring charge unless you authorize it (i.e. renewals - you
must approve at time of renewal).
Disclaimer - Disclosure - TOS
We cannot MAKE people visit your site, nor purchase your products. We CAN submit your site to the most
popular search
engines, directories and indexes so that most shoppers looking for your
business name or
products should see your link. We CAN submit your URL to many, many sites
giving your craft site
good Internet visibility. It is our goal to put you in a position to be
successful.
We cannot MAKE a search engine, directory, index, message board, classified
board or link page
display your link. Most of those we select will. Many now personally visit
your site and make a
subjective decision whether to include you or not. Others may not include
you because you do not
have a fax number or your own domain name. We will not falsify information
about your site just
to get it listed.
We cannot guarantee you any particular search engine position - there are too
many variables beyond our control (see comment in FAQ above).
If you have a web site hosted by AOL, Geocities, Angelfire, Ebay, etc., be aware that
many
search engines and directories will not list your site. Some flat out refuse
to, some have
problems if you use frames, and some can not handle being redirected to
sub-addresses. We will
attempt to make submissions to these sites but their acceptance of your site
is beyond our
control. If you are would like information on establishing your own domain
name and site, please
contact us (we do not provide these services but can point you in the right
direction).
Anticipate your amount of email to rapidly increase following submission.
You will receive a
number of confirmations from directories, craft sites and others. Sites
which are known to send
"junk mail" have either been excluded from submission or been given your
secondary email address
which we set-up. We do not sell your email address. However, there are many
firms out there who
"spider" sites gathering email addresses to put you on mailing lists. Given
that your address is
now going to be on 800-1000 sites YOU WILL receive more junk mail.
Just because you are listed on a search engine does not mean people will visit your site. It is
very important to have good meta tags in place when we submit your site to
search engines.
Part of our service is to check your meta tags and make suggestions for improvement.
Do not expect your site traffic to skyrocket overnight. Search engines,
directories and indexes
take anywhere from two days to twelve weeks to index your site. It generally
takes at least one
month for submissions to really take effect. Also, your link popularity (as
rated by the
search engines) will not change until after the search engines have re-spidered the sites you
have links on (allow 30 days).
Your web site traffic will fluctuate. It commonly peaks
in the fall and early winter as you approach the holidays, and wanes in late
spring through the summer months. Quite often, a client will notice a jump in
traffic is the early stages of their promotion (similar to a grand opening),
then a leveling off occurs. Traffic normally begins to build significantly
over time.
Promotional services are not transferable from site to
site nor can you change web addresses (URL's).
We spend a huge amount of time establishing links and making submissions for one
web address (URL). If you decide to close the original site but start another,
everything we have done and all the time we have invested is negated. To switch
to a different URL would mean we would have to start over from scratch.
We have had requests for the list of craft sites to which we submit. We have literally spent hundreds of hours compiling this list and for that reason we consider it proprietary information and will not make it publicly available. If there is a top craft site which does not charge a fee to list and does not require a reciprocal link, they are probably on our submission list. Rest assured that we do what we say we will do as our many satisfied clients will attest.
Refunds/Cancellations: The services we provide
are personalized for your website. Our custom work on your behalf is extremely
time-intensive, and we invest MANY hours working
on your promotion. Obviously, we cannot recover time. Therefore, orders may only
be canceled within the first five days of original receipt.
Thereafter, refunds are not available, neither in full nor in part. As
mentioned above, services are also not transferable to different domains.
We maintain Christian ethics is conducting our business. Hopefully you will
be so satisfied with
our service you will use us again and refer your business associates to us.
We do what we say we
will do.
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