Has anyone used Your Amigo?

A while ago I was approached by Your Amigo and wanted to ask some questions about the work they have done for other people.

Has anyone used them here and what results have they had from them?

I'm not technical but bear with me - basically it would seem that their system spiders our site and creates optimised pages for us that the search engines can see. They say they can probably created another 30,000 pages for us - we have about 30,000 products that we would like to be searchable but actually have upwards of 110,000 products.

We do have problems with search engines as we currently use frames and search applets with a dynamic database that populates the searches as you ask for them to make sure all the info is spot up to date.

Because of they way our site works and the fact that we are not allowed to make any changes to our existing site (it's in redesign to non-frames by our sister company at the mo), Your Amigo have proposed to use our test domain name which apparently has a higher ranking.

Would this site then become a dummy or doorway site and what would make that different to the dodgy tactics displayed by someone like Itscoldoutside?

If someone could explain this to me in real English that would be great as like I say I'm not particularly technical.

Thanks

Q.

I've done this for people in the past, lets see if this fits your scenario...

I had a site with 200k products built using SQL and asp. All the product pages were dynamically generated from the database into a template when a product was searched for. This included product categories,etc. So the spiders could not index the product pages as the pages don't exist until called for. So, what I did was create a template and a script that generated all the product pages as static pages and saved each one into a directory. I then let the spiders crawl that directory of hard coded pages. As the database was updated daily, this dump to static pages had to run everyday and over write the previous days pages. The layout for these pages needed to be formulated to adhere to a basic SEO skeleton layout. They all had their own meta tags and titles. When someone clicked through to buy it added the item to the cart. The result was that the product pages wre now indexed, inter linked and generated on the fly and were not doorway pages as they were the actual functioning page.


People using the site itself would still get the actual dynamically generated pages, so I guess technically these were doorway pages.

If this is your scenario, go for it, it works great. Any mediocre programer should be able to write the page generation script and you can get the SEO layout from reading the forum.

Thanks very much that's some good information there.

I'm sure they told me they are not just static pages but from the little technical knowhow I have I don't understand how they could be otherwise as it sounds a very similar idea to what you have described.

I will have to look into it some more.

Cheers

Q.