Search Engine Optimization Service

Search Engine Optimization is the art of getting your website to be seen by more search engine users. Your website is one among many millions of sites on the Internet. To stand out among those millions of websites, you need to have prominent positioning in the major search engines. Most people turn to a search engine when they begin to search for products and services on the Internet. And getting your website listed in a search engine is just the start of the process. You also need your website to get high rankings in order to be found by everyday search engine users who are looking for the products and services that you offer. That's where my affordable search engine optimization services will help you. Like many things, search engine optimization services come in different levels of service, quality, and affordability. My SEO service is designed to be affordable for small business and organizations. This page goes into a lot of detail about how my SEO service will help your website rank higher in the search engines for an affordable fee. I hope you'll take the time to read it all, but if you're in a hurry, there's a summary of my SEO services at the end.

There's a lot of hype out there about search engine optimization (SEO) services. Some search engine optimization companies promise to make your site rank in the top ten for your website's major search keywords, or get listed on the major search engines in 48 hours. Many such SEO companies employ optimization techniques that are discouraged or prohibited by the search engines' rules and are not likely to work over the long haul. Worse, they could get your website de-listed completely if the search engines discover your violations. And once you've been banned, it can take many months just to get your website considered for re-admission. I'm a small businessman, so I don't think only in terms of top rankings. I think in terms of getting more traffic and sales at an affordable price. Think of what even a 10-20% increase in targeted traffic would mean to your website's monthly profits and compare that with my affordable search engine optimization service. My clients easily see that kind of increase in traffic within 30-60 days, and even more over time.

I've developed a proven, safe, and ethical search engine optimization service that will improve the search engine rankings for your website. These techniques are not just allowed by the search engines - they actively encourage you to use them. The search engines' methods of ranking websites are always being changed to keep improving their results for their users. From the search engine's point of view, the goal is to provide the user with a list of the websites that will most likely answer their questions. So they go to great lengths to penalize or remove websites who engage in techniques that are designed to fool the search engine ranking programs. Search engine optimization companies are always trying to beat the system and the system is always fighting back. But despite this never-ending cycle of action and reaction, the basic rules of the game remain the same. If you stay within those rules, do more things right and fewer things wrong, and you are bound to get good results over time. I'm from Minnesota where we like to play by the rules and we know there are tangible rewards for doing so.

I strongly endorse Bruce Clay's Search Engine Optimization Code of Ethics

My Search Engine Optimization Service is an investment that will keep paying off for your website long after my program is done. Your site will continue to prosper in the search engines because the techniques I use are based on search engine principles that do not change. I don't use tricks that violate the search engine guidelines, so you won't do well for a short time only to drop out of sight a few months later because the search engines have penalized you for something I've done. And my search engine optimization fees are a fraction of what many others charge. See how much this well-known SEO company charges. And they are pretty typical of what the big search engine optimizers charge. So when I say my optimization service is affordable, I mean it.

Don't be fooled by guarantees of top rankings. Some are legitimate offers of guaranteed services, but many are misleading. Some services that make those claims will frequently pick obscure search terms and then provide your site's #1 ranking for those terms as proof of their abilities. Others guarantee top rankings, but actually use the search engines' pay per click advertising programs to make your site appear high on search results pages. Check out Google's advice on picking a Search Engine Optimization service. You'll see that my service easily meets the guidelines they discuss - especially the vital Satisfaction Guarantee.

When I optimize a website, I examine your business to find the search terms and phrases people are actually using when they search on the Internet for websites like yours. The goal is to bring an ever-increasing amount of targeted traffic to your website so you don't have to rely on expensive online advertising. But simply increasing traffic isn't enough to be truly successful. Increased traffic by people who are truly interested in your products or services is the ultimate goal of my SEO services.

Do I know what I'm doing? Try me. Pick your favorite search engine: Google, Yahoo!, or Bing. Search on "website design Minneapolis" (which is still a bit weak because I only recently moved to Minneapolis), and "affordable web design", which are my targeted keyword phrases for this website. Considering the sheer number of web designers' web sites, I think I do pretty well. If you look at the main page of my website, you'll see that the keywords I'm targeting are pretty obvious. I invite you to search in Google and Yahoo! for any combination of those terms you see. I think you'll find I'm ranking up there with the big kids.

I could come up with similar examples of our other websites, but I wanted you to see that it's possible for a small business with a limited budget to rank well even when the competition is fierce. Through Google's imfamous Florida and Alegra updates, this website and those of most of my clients have continued to rank well. Nobody bats 1000, but I have built a record of helping many small businesses recover from poor performance, penalties and lost rankings, and once again receive a steady stream of high quality search engine traffic. It's taken me a long time to learn these search engine ranking enhancement techniques, and I feel I've come through the Search Engine School of Hard Knocks with a PHd in Search Engine Marketing. The basic principles are pretty simple, but like many fields of study, it's the many small details that can make the difference between doing well and just barely getting by. And that's how using my search engine optimization services can save you a lot of time and money. I will get your website earning much more traffic in a very short time.

Summary of SEO Services

You can purchase my Search Engine Optimization service for a modest flat fee of just $499.99 with a Satisfaction Guarantee.

My services consist of:

• Optimizing your website's main page and up to 5 internal pages.
• Submitting your site to Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and website directories.
• Creating and installing an XML site map for your site.
• Perform a server check for proper HTTP service, good response times, and proper document encoding identification.
• Perform a website integrity check to make sure all links point to valid pages on your site.
• Obtaining targeted links to your website from outside sources.
• Developing A Marketing Plan to determine the keywords to target for improving traffic volume and quality.
• Sending You Regular Search Engine Performance Reports.

At the end of the package period, if we don't reach the goals we've agreed on or if you're simply dissatisfied, I'll refund your money. I've offered my SEO services to small businesses since 2003, and have yet to have anyone ask for a refund.

At the end of the search engine optimization package period, I'll re-evaluate your website and we can discuss any further steps that might be appropriate and what my fees would be to continue to provide search engine optimization services. I offer ongoing Search Engine Optimization and performance monitoring services on a monthly basis for a very affordable fee.

Request my FREE WEBSITE EVALUATION to find your site's current search engine optimization status.