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A weekend of real life inevitably includes marketing experiences worthy of a blog post.

Can't get a date? No, I mean to your website.

Reader question: I still want some more clarification on keyword-rich URLs and search engine visibility. We are an Outdoor Gear/Sporting Goods website with the generic URL outdoorworld.biz I gather from your article that breaking our Web site navigation into different categories such as:

Question: Can an search engine's bot distinguish between words in a domain name? For example, if a domain name is www.biggreenboat.com, will search engines "separate" these words (Big Green Boat) and then give prominence towards keywords or as if treated as keywords?

Question: We have recently inserted an "encryption code" in our home page at http://www.imagelair.com to keep most from viewing our source code (meta tags/keywords). The code works fine, but we noticed that our stats program reflected that about half of the hits to the default page every hit the "encrypt" page (our home page now). My question is this. Will the search engines index our encrypted home page and Web site when it must go through the default page first, which has the encryption?

Reader Question: We have a client that has begun using an SEO service that uses multiple

Question: Will search engines crawl/index pages in subWebs? An example of this is http://www.companyname.com/subWeb/pagename.htm.

Reader Question: I am in the typical quandary of the Internet small business owner. I am trying to find a submission/optimization company that will do a good job for us at a reasonable price. We have found that the sales go up for about a three-month period when we take on a new service, then the sales level, then they fall. We are not opposed to paying a reasonable monthly fee, but we need a company who will actually be concerned about long-term results without us having to think about it and remind them.