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On 23 Oct 98 at 21:23, M Sullivan wrote:


> Whoa! I have found some extremely good sites on GeoCities ranging
> from Latin studies to an anthropology expert's Southwestern rock art
> site. I have even contacted the sites' owners to check credentials.
> I have also checked out ~ sites at universities (my son's and his
> friends' included) and discovered a lot of dreck -even at the hands
> of some professors. Right now I am studying for an advanced degree
> at a highly acclaimed institution and can tell you that some of the
> professors' homepages are pathetic and many of them are actually put
> together as projects by their own students!

I think perhaps it might help to understand WHY some of us use free
services. I think I mentioned this previously, but for us little
folks if we become more successful in terms of generating visits, we
run the risk of bankrutpcy on metered service (the norm here is 500
megs per month) which is right now about 1/5 of what is going through
my sites.

I CAN'T do what I do on pay sites. Can't afford it. If people decide
not to visit because I use xoom or tripod, etc, then it really is
their loss because what I do is a free service to managers,
governments, etc. We make huge amounts of articles, books and
materials available free, even though some of those same materials,
we make our living with (partly).

What really concerns me (and this is the point), is not so much what
individuals do, but what the search engines do. My understanding and
experience is that if I create two identical sites, one at my pay
site and one at a free one, and promote them to the search engines
exactly the same way, that the pay site will get into the engines,
while the free ones may or may not (depends on the engine).

I understand the issue and the transience of many free sites, and in
fact will not patronize a few free sites that have a record as spam
havens or pirated material hosters. Still, I AM legitimate. I have
been on the net for years, but get tarred by the same brush.

Comments?



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