I posted to the sticky thread on the Eve Online Sell forum regarding the Classified Ad’s service we host. In the reply I posted a table of results from Google searches to indicate our service was being spidered succesfully by Google. I suggest you read the post on the sticky first to understand the context of this.

In response Estel Arador wanted to know why using our service was of benefit to advertisers when there were other links in the Google results that were equally of relevance to the advertiser – what made our service any better than those other links.

Here is the reply:

This sticky is not the place for a protracted discussion and if you wish to continue this elsewhere please post another thread.

However, to answer your questions (again) – as I said the table was an indication the website is being spidered succesfully. I also indicated our advertisers will be provided with details of website hits to their advert etc.

Regarding how our site can help when other results are shown on Google searches. You are quite correct that Google shows other results but not necessarily links that are of any use to the advertisers.

For example – take the Chribba link.

Searching on Google for Chribba’s 3rd party service brings up these results:

1 – Eve Online Wiki

A very nice wiki article about Chribba – no link to Chribba’s advert or thread

2 – Eve Search

Page 13 of 18 thread posts – Dated 6 June 2009 and another click to go to page one and see what Chribba was actually advertising

3 – Eve Search

Result 1-20 of 43 for by author Nori traps all about Recruiting 0.0 PVP players – no link to Chribba’s advert or thread

4 – Massively.Com

EVE Online Community Spotlight: a Q&A with Chribba – a real nice profile of Chribba – no immediate link to Chribba’s advert or thread

5 – Solar Sentinel Classified Ad’s

Chribba’s advert and a direct link to his forum thread – Dated 14 Jan 2010

I use this as an example but I dare say all the results for any advert will be similar. Check it for yourself and tell me which link you would click on if you were looking for an advertised service.

Plus if you had used Solar Sentinel Classified Ad’s to find a service before you know you are going to get the information you want – not something totally irrelevant like o.o PVP recruiting…

You seem to be interested so why not sign up and test it for yourself? The worst that can happen is you don’t get any hits on our site. The best and more probable result is you get an increase in business.

It is FREE and you have nothing to lose – and every chance it will help you.

Also remember that not everyone is like you and Chribba with long and well established services.

There are those who are just starting out and as you see from many of the messages in this sticky – they can’t even get listed as an available service. This is one of the reasons the classifieds were put on our site – because we along with a multitude of others have had our requests to be listed in this sticky completely ignored.

If you wish to ask any further questions then I suggest you post in another thread or speak to me in game.

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I think those results speak for themselve don’t you?