October 10, 2008 01:13pm pdt

My Account

Top 15 Experts

Overall Top Experts

1duz 1,028,114
2humeniuk 594,369
3desertcities 178,257
4gwkg 132,239
5coreybrya... 130,755
6ashishjvw 114,978
7pigmentarts 107,793
8rivusglobal 92,516
9cogitate4u 88,750
10ShaneJones 87,351
11weikelbob 79,380
12fibo 65,868
13Graphixer 65,221
14sitecreations 60,264
15Protheus99 35,535

	[x] Attachment Details

Traffic-Power Search Engine Placement - User Feedback?

[x]

The Solution Rating System

With so many solutions, how can you tell which solutions are most likely to help you and which ones are not? To provide you with a tool to use, we rate our solutions based on various elements that most accurately determine if a solution is a quality solution. To explain what factors affect the solution rating, here are the elements we take into consideration when formulating our solution rating.

The Grade of the Solution
The Zone Rank of the Expert Providing the Solution
The Number of Author and Expert Comments
The Number of Experts Contributing
The Feedback of the Community

Your Input Matters
Because of the way the system is set up, the most important variable in this equation is you. As a member of Experts Exchange, you are able to cast your vote on the quality of the solutions in regard to how complete, accurate, helpful and easy to understand each solution is. When you provide your feedback, each rating is adjusted accordingly. So, if you see a solution that has a poor rating that you think is a good solution, let us know by rating it. As you do, the rating will be adjusted and will become more accurate for other members of our site.

If you have any suggestions that you would like to make for our rating system, please ask a question in the Suggestions Zone of Community Support.

Thank you!

5.2

Zones: Internet Marketing, Internet Search Engine Optimization

Tags: power, traffic

A website I take care of is using an outfit called www.traffic-power.com which guarantees a certain % of top-10 placements in the top 40 or so search engines.

Has anybody used this outfit?

I have serious reservations about their methodology and effectiveness, and yet my boss keeps forking over money to them.

Would appreciate your thoughts on their methods:
1. They take 20 keyword phrases the owner thinks are important.
2. They then create "attraction pages" which are templates based on those phrases. There are 14 pages full of keywords and links for each keyword, for a total of 280 extra htm pages they add to your site. I think of these as "Search engine bait."
3. They create another htm page that is nothing but links to 1000s of other sites, that have no bearing on the business at hand.
4. They do something that sounds suspiciously like spamming.

The fee is around $1600/yr.

Would greatly appreciate your thoughts. Here is their description of how they work.
http://www.traffic-power.com/sep_faq.php

This is my first post to E-E. If there is interest on methodology, I'll post later about effectiveness.

Thanks,
Bill

	#	Title
	1	Better placement on Google
	2	Traffic-Power.com Seach Engine Pla…
	3	If i change my internet provider will i lo…
	4	UK Placements
	5	Flash X & Y Coordinates Placement of MC
	6	Help with design- colors, placement…