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On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:28:44 +0100, JimD <jamesdaltrey (AT) premiumiv (DOT) com>
wrote:

Thanks for the feedback, although I'm not sure what you mean by
"changing the font size"

Start IE, navigate to your page, select View/Text size/something else then
already selected. Note I am translating from Polish IE, so the menu names
can be slightly different.

Most pages doesn't survive the test and that IE bugs make the task of
preparing properly rendered pages regardless of text size even more
difficult. But still it is worth to try.

Best,
Borek
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On 23 Jan 2006 14:28:44 -0800, "JimD" <jamesdaltrey (AT) premiumiv (DOT) com>
wrote:

Thanks for the feedback, although I'm not sure what you mean by
"changing the font size"

I routinely adjust the size of the text in a page I'm viewing on a
site till my eyes, which don't work too well, are comfortable with it.
Some sites respond well to this, some don't. Jeez, I'm turning into a
Mogga apologist here. Hey, my leetle Mogling, you got any of your
affiliate buddies to link back to me yet?

I didn't realise that PRs applied to specific pages, rather than the
domain......nice to know...the homepage for www.sbhonline.com is a PR5.
In any case it is a great gateway for us in terms of referrals, even
though the SEs aren't detecting it as a worthwhile link.

To quote you " know a lot of people seem to concentrate on making a
site purely for SE forgetting that its the human being who makes the
sale"

We want a people oriented site, and we also want people to be able to
find our site with the search engines, and finding a comprimise between
the two appears to be becoming mutually exclusive.

Nah, it's well do-able, you just have to know how.

BB
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:01:09 +0000, mogga <di (AT) NOSPAMPLEASEmogga (DOT) com>
wrote:

On 23 Jan 2006 09:52:31 -0800, "JimD" <jamesdaltrey (AT) premiumiv (DOT) com
wrote:

I have been using this, http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/

However we appear to have some movement since I posted on this site
(??)

The question I have is why does for example, this not show as being a
link to our site:

http://www.sbhonline.com/PremiumIV.htm (this cost us $500)


Its a pr0. Heck for $500 a pop I'll add you some links.


or this

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/flygolf/booking.htm

Thats a pr 2.
Google wont' show backlinks of less than a pr4.

It shows any old thing these days, Mogs.

To be honest if you're piddling about spending silly money making
links you'd be better putting some effort into

Or this

http://www.landoflinks.com/cgi-bin/l...ery=premium+iv


That's through a script link and no good for SE imo.



Also, we for example have the text "st barts shopping" on our
site...and as a search term we are nowhere and the following sites show
who have no such exact text:

http://st-barts.villascaribe.com/Content/723.htm (We both have PR2)
http://press-release.designerz.com/?...Management+Xml (link not
even active)
http://www.dangdang.de/steuerfrei%20...fen_46056.html (contains no
search terms at all)
http://www.homevhstodvd.com/barthelemy.html (PR0 and we have a PR2)

And explain this one....No search terms and not even vaguely relevant!

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2....sTMv5.moZe3q5w


Can't see a link but it might be one of those nasty pages which
scrapes up other sites.


I am at a complete loss.......

JimD
http://www.premiumiv.com/

My main comments about your site is you have a splash page which I
think is pointless - you could just show an english index with a nice
link to the fresh version.
Is that a flash thing on there too? Why?

Bad news as usual.

I have no idea what "Complete Destination Management" means and
suspect its not a keyphrase to be bothered with so why include it in
your flash thing or on the index page?

Destination management, which I'd never heard of either, seems to be
corporate speak for tour guide company.

Your site reacts really badly to me changing the font size. For people
who have trouble reading your site this can be very annoying and will
put off people.

I don't know much about St Barts but if you're after good quality
inward bound links you could create a useful resouce for people
looking for info about the place - something that is useful to people
planning a visit and that other sites might happily swap links with.

I never heard of the place. Are you guys trying to push the place
itself or the fact that, once there, one's whim's would be managed
very well?

BB
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Destination Management is a travel trade term for someone who
specialises in a specific destination, tour operators generally have
selectively "set packages" for a limited number of products in a wide
number of destinations. We do everything on our little rock. (French
West Indies) and do nothing outside it.

St Barts is hugely well known in the US, as a playground of the rich
and famous, up there with the Hamptons, Aspen and St Tropez. We are
initially trying to grab existing market share of dealing with the
caprices of those who would rather let somebody do the organising of
their holiday.

Promoting the place from scratch to the UK market for example, is a
daunting task, and we are not big enough for the job. www.wimco.com
tried and failed (expensively)

http://www.premiumiv.com/

On 24 Jan 2006 08:47:53 -0800, "JimD" <jamesdaltrey (AT) premiumiv (DOT) com>
wrote:

Destination Management is a travel trade term for someone who
specialises in a specific destination, tour operators generally have
selectively "set packages" for a limited number of products in a wide
number of destinations. We do everything on our little rock. (French
West Indies) and do nothing outside it.

Well I was kind of right then!

St Barts is hugely well known in the US, as a playground of the rich
and famous, up there with the Hamptons, Aspen and St Tropez.

All of which I've heard of. Aspen and St. Tropez through the movies as
lots of stuff is set there and the Hamptons because everyone snobby in
American sitcoms (Frasier comes to mind here) is related to an old
established family from there as in, Oh, you mean the HAMPTON BB's.

We are
initially trying to grab existing market share of dealing with the
caprices of those who would rather let somebody do the organising of
their holiday.

Do other folk as well as you offer the services you do on St. Barts?

Promoting the place from scratch to the UK market for example, is a
daunting task, and we are not big enough for the job. www.wimco.com
tried and failed (expensively)

Well you don't want to do that, do you? That's not SEO, that's
marketing proper, as in getting all the media involved, getting George
Hamilton in Sunday Supplements to show you around his house there etc.

BB (of the, ahem, Molesey East BB's)


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We do have a couple of competitors, but their sites are even more
invisible than ours

I'm surprised it's not more well known in the UK, recently we've had
Kate Moss frollicking about in the sand, Elton John, Keith Richards,
Rod Stewart, blah blah blah....It's the kind of place the celebrity
gossip hungry would love (I must confess I got a kick out of bumping
into Steve Martin in the supermarket)

Is this a uk forum? There seems to be a distinct lack of sceptics...

Anyway, we are dumping the flash landing page, with hindsite, we have
virtually no content on it, three links on it, one which goes back to
our designers site, one which goes no-where because we haven't done the
French bit yet, and one that goes into our site...pretty useless
really.

JimD (Of the Winchester JimDs)

http://www.premiumiv.com/

On 25 Jan 2006 06:36:31 -0800, "JimD" <jamesdaltrey (AT) premiumiv (DOT) com>
wrote:

We do have a couple of competitors, but their sites are even more
invisible than ours

It won't always be that way.

I'm surprised it's not more well known in the UK, recently we've had
Kate Moss frollicking about in the sand, Elton John, Keith Richards,
Rod Stewart, blah blah blah....It's the kind of place the celebrity
gossip hungry would love (I must confess I got a kick out of bumping
into Steve Martin in the supermarket)

So how come the press boys aren't there in force? Taking pix of Steve
Martin in the Supermarket? maybe this is the whole thing of the place,
it's a well-kept secret or it's understood by the papparatzi that this
place is off-limits. Like, um, Tramps or something.

Is this a uk forum? There seems to be a distinct lack of sceptics...

Here, good grief no, half of us are from all over the planet. We
aren't sceptics because we have a broad agreement that seo works.

Anyway, we are dumping the flash landing page, with hindsite, we have
virtually no content on it, three links on it, one which goes back to
our designers site, one which goes no-where because we haven't done the
French bit yet, and one that goes into our site...pretty useless
really.

Absolutely. Coulda told you. Oh wait - I did! If you want someone to
have a closer look I'll be half-free in a week or so.

BB (Never heard of them Winchesters - ptooie)!
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I know these people with invisible sites...and thankfully they will
stay invisible.

The Celebs are well known and well reported in the US press, without
the lower pond-life paparazzi running wild. In fact, the island is so
small (eight square miles) that once a paparrazzi is identified, he
can't buy a coffee.....

Our designer has gone awol (he's also a wannabe rock star) so site
remains as it was. If you could spare some time to have a close look at
our site I would be eternally gratefully.

The Winchester branch of the familly? sniff...i'm adopted

On 25 Jan 2006 13:47:46 -0800, "JimD" <jamesdaltrey (AT) premiumiv (DOT) com>
wrote:

I know these people with invisible sites...and thankfully they will
stay invisible.

The Celebs are well known and well reported in the US press, without
the lower pond-life paparazzi running wild. In fact, the island is so
small (eight square miles) that once a paparrazzi is identified, he
can't buy a coffee.....

That's why then. It's like The Prisoner's Village.

Our designer has gone awol (he's also a wannabe rock star)

Nothing wrong with that...

so site
remains as it was. If you could spare some time to have a close look at
our site I would be eternally gratefully.

I'll put a link to it on my desktop and have a more detailed look next
week.

The Winchester branch of the familly? sniff...i'm adopted

Funny enough, just a mile away from me is Hampton Court, with the
Palace and all... we don't get out of bed for mere Winchesters,
tra-la-la...

It's a good idea, by the way, to show relevant portions of the post
you're replying to, the others may not realise you're replying to me.
I mean they will now, but they wouldn't have otherwise.

BB
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