I want my website ranked on search engines but SEO companies are too costly. Are there any other options?

Question

I do not want to pay for yahoo and google sponsor results. I just want it ranked high with little costs. If I have to pay a seo company, should I pay monthly or one-time?

Answer 1

The answer to your question is that you can do it all yourself. You got to go to https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ for Yahoo and submit your site yourself without paying anything and don't forget to authenticate. Next go to google search and you can do the same but you need an account on google maybe its gmail or for any other such services and submit your site. Note for google you need a sitemap as per their format that is sitemap.xml, if you find any difficulty in doing so feel free to contact me and for msn use this link http://www.search.msn.com and submit your site no registration required. Lastly go to your cpanel and if you are hosted with a good hosting company you will find a link there to submit your site to various search engines. Click at that link and do the needfull and if this doesnt answer your querry contact me.

Last but not the least use correct key words under your meta tags between .

Answer 2

I just provided this information in another question line but the answer is valid here as well, I've tweaked it a bit to include your a thought on your second question.

Many SEO industry experts participate in online forums and emails newsletters and will 'talk' with you at no charge in these venues. Search on SEO Forums,sign up for free SEO newsletters and check out specialty blogs, I've listed a couple resources below.

Your second question about monthly or one-time is hard without knowing what kind of site it is, how big/competitive the keywords etc. That said, I'll offer this for consideration: I think a one time fee should do it if you're a small to mid size site in a moderately or less competitive area but suggest you pay close attention to what's being done to your site and why when you engage an SEO. Watch what's going on and then continue to work on your site on your own. So much of SEO is about link building (which you can do) as well as content generation ( again - you can do) that once the basic tag and usability issues are addressed, you can take over.

Asking to purchase a block of time from the SEO company to review your efforts say....3 months down the road is a good thing and something I'd recommend. But if you're a site in a mid to competitve industry and/or have lots of changing products/keywords, I'd find a solid SEO company and stick with it.

Unfortunately, with online business there is never an easy, simple answer! Good luck fal!

Answer 3

Well..that depends on the company. Some companies lock you in for a year. I don't see why they should. They have no way fo knowing how well or bad your site will do. Sometimes you need backlinks built and that would probably be best to be done monthly. It all depends on your site, if it is new or is already established.
Don't go with anyone that guarantees results. those are cons. As long as they rank you for any term, even if it is meaningless, you have to pay. Don't fall for that.
Like theKenyan above his site not only is doing a re-direct (bad for SEO) but he has no pagerank. Which means his site is new. Stay with established companies.

Answer 4

You might be screwed if you don't have any money.
See the link below for a better explanation.

You would need to do-it-yourself if you don't have any money but I doubt you will, even if you had the time. Another link to why people don't do these things themselves below.

But anyway...
The basic process works like this...

Figure out what people are searching for. Create great content that people are searching for. Get people to link to your great content.

SEO's have all different kinds of contracts and payment options. Keep in mind that you get what you pay for. Anyone who is good enough at this stuff to actually be able to help you will not be cheap.

Aloha,
Dave.

Answer 5

I wouldn't pay an SEO company unless you know exactly what you're getting from them. Make sure they're not just giving you some crappy links from a linkfarm.

I do all of my own SEO work. Some things that work very well are:

Article writing & submission
Press releases
Adding a blog to your site
Submitting to free web directories

Answer 6

I agree with Benjamin, keywords don't really matter that much. Essentially the most important thing is to produce good content and to publicize it. If people think it is good, and link to it, your search engine ratings will go up. In terms of your question, basically you can consider PHP and HTML as being the same thing. PHP is a server-side scripting language, which means that your code does it's thing on the server, and sends a pure (well, except css, javascript and stuff like that) to your client's browser. To the browser it doesn't matter is if you used PHP or HTML, it just does it's thing the same way. As far as the google-bot is concerned, it is also just an HTML page...i.e. they are concerned with what you are sending out, not how you make the page in the first page.

Answer 7

If you do not want to invest much then you shouldn't expect much return.

As for SEO payment structures, it depends on how competitive your industry is. Some require ongoing work whereas others do not require much ongoing work.

I would reccomend doing a couple days of research learning the basics of how SEO works before spending any money.

Answer 8

The best way to go is to educate yourself on the whole process at which point you can make educated decisions about what you should do yourself, what you should hire a professional or firm to do and how much you should pay for their services.

Here is a list of quality, up-to-date tutorials that are currently being written about the entire process:

http://www.sembasics.com/sem-blog/search-engine-optimization-tutorials

Best of luck.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

I found some good info here.