SEO assistance companies - Does anyone know any good/cheap ones?

Answer 1

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is to first set up a website and publish its domain name on major search directories such as Google.com, Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?... and MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these search directories to provide them with goods and services. In a sense, these search directories are a very large Internet Yellow Pages.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website with placement of various critical metatags that can surely achieve a high search engine presence and increase Internet traffic to your website. These metatag strategies work well with published webpages at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the Internet audience and their incoming setup. For example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages take too long to load up and therefore analog users will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users for maximum marketability, then select analog users since 80% of most resident users are still analog Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the "Description" which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes one's goods and services.

And the very last category - "Keywords" are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. "Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google's spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory.

Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on Yahoo.com: Begin with the search query "pizza downtown los angeles." It will bring up some 1.4 million+ websites as results. Check out where "Pizza Next Door" is ranked. It's in the Top Five! Again, Pizza Next Door's high web presence was achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant metatags according to Yahoo's publication guidelines.

Good luck!

Answer 2

As with all things if you have the time and are willing to make the effort you can learn to be good at anything. This is the same whether you're talking about SEO or car maintenance.

However, do you want to spend numerous hours a week learning about SEO and keeping up to date with new developments? If the answer is yes then great.

If however the answer is no, and believe me, I get approached by so many companies who thought they could try the DIY SEO route and then discovered it was much harder than they thought, then you need to pay for help. However good SEO specialists aren't cheap. Sure there are alot of companies who will say they will get you to No 1 but no-one can consistently deliver that, and in many cases it isn't necessary anyway.

So my company does SEO. We're not cheap but we deliver very good results. And no we don't guarantee we can deliver a No 1 ranking on Google!

Regards

Susan

Answer 3

there are plenty of seo sources that are free, If you can dedicate 1 hour a day, you can build all the traffic you want or need in about 90 days!


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I just read the post below, The title and meta description is good info, the flash and frame info is good, but the keywords he is showing ranking for has no searches on overture or any other keyword stats, so the phrases are useless unless you are ranking for terms people are looking for.

Why rank for keywords or phrases that Nobody is searching for?

Lets look at some real results.

This is a site i market for in israel. FAV.CO.IL

Now here is a lik to their traffic on alexa. http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?cc=IL&ts_mode=country&lang=none


Look at number 83..... This is a top 100 website in a country.

Answer 4

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