Down Side To Banner Placement?

[kmmcdanie]

Hi,

I am in the middle of promoting a new informational site. It is not commercial or profit-based so our campaign is by no means highly sophisticated. I have created a small tasteful banner for the site and I am in the process of asking people to link to us. One person was told by her web designer that it is not wise to place a banner on your first page and I quote:

"that can effect your search engine ranking cause they read other sites..meaning they skip out of yours while checking the first page, and it's more loading time that isn't for your design."

She encouraged her to put it on another page. Is this accurate? I had never heard anything about front page banners effecting your page ranking.

Thanks!
Kathleen

 

[ChrisHirst]

absolute rubbish!

SE crawlers don't actually crawl, they just retrieve the page source they are sent to.

Chris.

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[kmmcdanie]

Thanks Chris,

That was my understanding of how search engine crawlers worked but I am not proficient enough in the technology to automatically have contridicted her claim.

Thanks again!
Kathleen

 

[Foamcow]

What a complete idiot that "web designer" sounds! If you are friendly with this site owner you should tell her to find someone who knows what they are doing.

Sorry, but really! People like that who label themselves as web designers really irk me.
I've had so many conversations with people who have been told twaddle like that by supposed web professionals and giving people who have some idea of what they are talking about a bad name.

I say burn them all.

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[coldfused]

Think about it. If that were true half the sites on the internet would not be indexed because they have banner advertisements at the top

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[BabyJeffy]

I've had so many conversations with people who have been told twaddle like that by supposed web professionals and giving people who have some idea of what they are talking about a bad name.

Replace "web professionals" with almost any profession and you can re-use the same statement again and again. Which is sad really

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Jeff

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You have to wonder how professional using "cause" instead of "because" in an email to a client is. Very unprofessional, in my opinion.

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[mkrausnick]

"twaddle"

What a great word! Never heard that one before.

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California

 

[Foamcow]

I've got loads of them.

Foamcow Heavy Industries - Web design and ranting
Target Marketing Communications - Advertising, Direct Marketing and Public Relations
I wonder what possesses people to make those animated gifs. Do you just get up in the morning and think, "You know what web design r