1. What does the Alden Hosting's Traffic Booster search engine placement program include?
2. What are attraction pages?
3. How much does it cost?
4. How are attraction pages different from doorway pages?
5. What are meta tags?
6. What is link popularity?
7. How does link popularity affect search engine ranking?
8. What reports are available on Alden Hosting's Traffic Booster's online reporting system?
9. What are search engine spiders?
10. How long will it take for my Traffic Booster site to show results?
11. What can I do if I am not showing good results after eight weeks?
12. Does Alden Hosting's Traffic Booster make any changes that affect the way my website looks?
13. Why don't you have a strong relationship with the search engines?
14. Can I obtain a refund for my payment?
15. Do you need FTP access to place the code on my Web site?
16. I want to see an example of a Traffic Booster link directory portal web site

1. What does the Alden Hosting's Traffic Booster search engine placement program include?

• Our professionally trained technicians help you to choose the 500 to 1000 keyword phrases that best reflect the main focus of your site.
  
• We use those keywords to create a "link directory portal web site" with 500 to 1000 HTML attraction pages designed and optimized to conform to the ranking criteria of the top search engines. Each and every page in your link directory portal web site contains unique, content-rich information. There are no two pages even remotely the same.
  
• Since many search engines now use link popularity in their rankings, we employ link building strategies such as reciprocal link relationships with related businesses.
  
• We do not submit to spider-based search engines because recent studies indicate that these types of search engines give preference to sites that their spiders find through links.
  
• Our online client reporting system puts tracking information at your fingertips so that you can monitor your site's progress.
  
• Free customer support is always available for active clients through our toll free customer support hotline.

2. What are attraction pages?
Attraction pages are individual Web pages that attract a search engine for one keyword. These pages are designed using a computer-generated analysis to conform to the ranking criteria of the top search engines.

3. How much does it cost?
$450 USD for the design and creation of your link directory portal web site. Plus $12 USD per month.

4. How are attraction pages different from doorway pages?
There are significant differences between doorway pages and attraction pages. Doorway pages are also designed to highlight keywords, but they have very little content and serve no purpose other than to fool the search engines into thinking that something is there. Since search engines do not like pages that lack significant content, they have a negative attitude toward doorway pages. This is why Alden Hosting's Traffic Booster designs attraction pages to include content that relates to the entire web site being promoted. There is significant content included and each attraction page is unique.

5. What are meta tags?
A meta tag is a special HTML code that provides information about a Web page. Unlike normal HTML tags, meta tags do not affect how the page is displayed. Instead, they provide information such as who created the page, how often it is updated, the topic of the page, and which keywords represent the page's content. Search engines analyze these tags when building their indexes.

6. What is link popularity?
Link popularity is the total number of web sites that link to your site. Many of the major search engines now factor link popularity into their rankings so increasing the number of links to your site can improve your search engine rankings.

7. How does link popularity affect search engine ranking?
While link popularity is only a measure of the number of pages linking to your site, it is important because it is used by some search engines to gauge your Web site's importance or relevance. Google pioneered the idea of using link popularity to determine a site's ranking. Its patented Page Rank™ technology rates the "importance" of a given web page by measuring the accumulated value of all links to the page. Every link is a "vote" cast by a web page for another web page. Google's PageRank system uses those votes to determine a page's importance and then factors that importance into its ranking criteria. Since higher link popularity is an indicator of an individual page's value, it translates into higher rankings by Google. Other search engines have also started incorporating link popularity into their ranking criteria because of the success of Google's PageRank™.

8. What reports are available on Alden Hosting's Traffic Booster's online reporting system?
Our online client reporting system produces a website activity report for daily tracking of your site's performance. The Web site activity report shows the total number of hits a client's Web site received on a daily or weekly basis.

9. What are search engine spiders?
Search engine spiders are computer programs that the search engines send across the Internet to gather information from the Web. They use the information gathered to build their databases which are used when pople search for information on the web.

10. How long will it take for my Traffic Booster site to show results?
It generally takes at least 8 to 12 weeks for the search engine spiders to find and incorporate sites into their database.

11. What can I do if I am not showing good results after 12 weeks?
After 12 weeks of promotion time, you should take a look at your keywords to see which ones are working well. This is not done automatically. We rely on you to tell us which words are working for you and which are not. Then we must get your authorization to change any keyword. If you need any assistance analyzing your keyword performance after the initial eight week period, please feel free to contact the support department . If you choose to replace any under-performing keywords, an additional six to eight weeks will be required for those particular keywords to produce results.

12. Does Alden Hosting's Traffic Booster make any changes that affect the way my website looks?
No. The coding changes Alden Hosting's Traffic Booster makes do not affect the way your site looks. You can amplify your search engine results by having your Webmaster make design changes to your homepage. For instance, design practices that negatively affect search engine placement include frames, Flash animation, graphic text, and dynamically generated pages.

13. Why don't you have a strong relationship with the search engines?
A. There are two schools of thought when it comes to search engine optimization. The first assumes that search engine optimization's firms share similar goals with the search engines and that the two should develop close relationships. The second school of thought recognizes that the two have different sets of goals that are often in conflict. The search engines' goal is to provide the best possible results for the searcher. Our goal is to get the best possible placement for our clients. For this reason, Alden Hosting's Traffic Booster's basic philosophy is adversarial to the search engines. We closely monitor their activities and respond promptly to changes in their algorithms, but we do not work directly with or for them.

14. Can I obtain a refund for my payment?
The work for all promotions begins immediately upon receipt of your confirmation Email. Also, funds are distributed the same day. For this reason, refunds are simply not possible. You may cancel the monthly charge at anytime.

15. Do you need FTP access to place the code on my Web site?
No, we do not need FTP access in order to place the code on your index (home) page.

16. I want to see an example of a Traffic Booster link directory portal web site
Here is an example of the Traffic Booster link directory portal web site that Alden Hosting is using.

http://web-hosting-links.net/

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