When my son went to college I told him to specialize in something he will enjoy doing so he became an IT person working with wireless and computer repairs. After giving him advice I decided to give it a try myself as I had lost a good high tech job that I had for eighteen years. I love everything about web design and marketing. I always wondered what my special talent was but now I think this is it.

I highly recommend that you talk to any of the website owner's below to get their feedback on my work and my reliability. Web Design and SEO companies are a dime a dozen these days and they can be extremely expensive with no guarantee of ever hitting the top even though many of them will promise you the world. I can never guarantee that either but I believe that when I am consistently working smarter and harder than everybody else in the field.

My Newest Websites

Southern Utah Veterans Aid
http://www.southernutahvetsaid.org/
Website Owner: Pat Lisi
Online Since: July 25, 2011

This is a brand new website dedicated to helping Veterans in Southern Utah and Southern Nevada.  Many veterans do not know where to start when it comes to benefits, or having their voices heard.  Local veterans that I’ve talked to have filled out paperwork for the VA, but some of these warriors have had limited successes in winning their claims to the degree (percentage) they deserve.

Golf Country Homes – St. George, Utah
www.golfcountryhomes.com/
Website Owner: Jodi Van Cleve
Online Since: October 2, 2002

This website is one of the top real estate website's in Southern Utah and it has been at the top for nearly five years. I created this website in 2002 knowing I was going to be living in Southern Utah and that I was going to become a licensed Realtor in both Southern Utah and Southern Nevada. Jodi Van Cleve is now the owner and I got out of real estate and started my own web design, management and promotion business as that is what I truly enjoy doing as a profession.

RE/MAX Associates – St. George, Utah
www.stgeorgerealestate.com/
Website Owner: Neil Gibbs
Online Since: October 3, 2001

The St. George Real Estate Group website is a newer website because the company changed names. I was hired to bring it back to life as nobody could find it on the Internet and when you open it, it was confusing and it was difficult to find what you were looking for. The website had to be completely redesigned by me and I believe this was done sometime around April of 2007.

The fact that this website has been around for quite some time and the fact that I have been doing the SEO for it means that this website ranks quite well in the major search engines.

Entrada Golf Properties – St. George, Utah
www.stgeorgerealestateservices.com/
Website Owner: Sue Lipsman
Online Since: December 15, 2006

This Entrada Golf Properties website was created around September or August of 2007 by me but at the time I was not doing SEO for anybody besides Golf Country Homes and the old St. George GMAC website. SEO services were started on this website around January of 2009.

This website has been climbing in the search engine rankings steadily over this period of time.

St. George Utah Living – St. George, Utah
www.stgeorgeutahliving.com/
Website Owner: Steven G. Harrington
Online Since: January 8, 2009

The St. George Utah Living website is a brand new website and has only existed since the beginning of 2009. As we have mentioned throughout this website, top ten or better rankings never happen overnight or even quickly so if someone tells you they can get those kind of rankings for you quickly BEWARE!

This website has been climbing slowly in the major search engines but it can take a year or even longer to really start being competitive with the top ranking, older website's. We work on these website's every weekday and on many occasions during the weekend as it is in our interest to get the best rankings possible for our clients.

This website has been climbing in the search engine rankings steadily over this period of time.

St. George Utah Real Estate Listings – St. George, Utah
www.stgeorgeutahrealestatelistings.com/
Website Owner: Nick Nocchi
Online Since: anuary 27, 2009

The St. George Utah Real Estate Listings website is a brand new website as well and has only existed since the beginning of 2009. As we have mentioned throughout this website, top ten or better rankings never happen overnight or even quickly so if someone tells you they can get those kind of ranking for you quickly BEWARE!

This website has been climbing slowly in the major search engines but it can take a year or even longer to really start being competitive with the top ranking, older website\'s.

We work on these website\'s every weekday and on many occasions during the weekend as it is in our interest to get the best rankings possible for our clients. 

Great Homes Of Marin – San Rafael, California
www.greathomesofmarin.com
Website Owner: Wes Mayne
Online Since: March 27, 2009

The Great Homes of Marin website is extremely new as well. We are looking forward to seeing how well this website will rank in the tech savvy San Francisco bay Area. Even though it is quite new we are seeing some great results while searching using the major search engines.

We have noticed that the first search engine to give decent rankings to a new website is Bing (formerly MSN). Next in line is Yahoo and then finally Google. Google tends to put new website's in what is commonly called the "Sandbox". You won't find Google talking about the sandbox but it exists and that is one of the reasons it can take an entire year or even longer to get a good idea how well your website ranks with them.

St. George Utah Luxury Homes – St. George, Utah
www.stgeorgeutahluxuryhomes.com
Website Owner: Neil Gibbs
Online Since: April 10, 2009

Neil Gibbs, one of the co-owners of St. George GMAC Real Estate had me do this website after he mentioned that he should have done it much sooner. The sooner a person starts on a new website the better. As mentioned earlier it can take a long time to get a website ranked well in the search engines so the quicker you get started, the quicker you will see results.

We are also available to make improvements to your existing website as well but you better hurry as we only plan on maintaining 100 website's at a time. Taking on more than that wouldn't allow us to do the quality work we do. Our resume is basically directly related to how well your website does so it is in our interest to make sure you are receiving the very best service we can give.

Experience Southern Utah – St. George, Utah
www.experiencesouthernutah.com
Website Owner: Patrick Lisi
Online Since: November 7, 2009

Pats website was my first upgrade. I have been using Microsoft FrontPage and several other programs in the past. No more! It was time to keep up with the times and use programs that are up to today's standards. I am extremely happy with the finished result and I believe Pat is as well. Unfortunately Mr. Lisi has retired however he still owns the website so in case you're interested in buying it give him a call.

Prime Source Commercial – Las Vegas, Nevada
www.primesourcecoml.com
Website Owner: Terry D. Barone
Online Since: February 5, 2000

Terry is my brother as well. His website has been online for about ten years however I just took over and redesigned the website. I am also managing the link building and SEO campaign for the website.

Shop USA Publications – Kingman, Arizona
www.shopusaaz.com
Website Owners: Jim and Joy Barone
Online Since: October 27, 2008

Jim is my brother and owns several advertising businesses in Arizona. This is a real basic website that mirrors the ads they produce in their publications.

Wright Bros. Supply – Santa Rosa, California
www.wrightbrossupply.com
Website Owner: Sean Martin
Online Since: March 17, 2006

I just recently took on this website. Because there isn't a ton of competition the website rose to the top of the search engine results very rapidly. If you are in an industry or business like this your ranking can improve quickly like this one did.

Hiking South Utah – Ivins, Utah
www.hikingsouthutah.com
Website Owner: Kendell Rhodes
Online Since: August 23, 2009

Once again this is a pretty new website. Kendell is a hiking guide here in Southern Utah and he needed a website to promote his business. I trained Kendell to perform his own SEO.

Star Bud's By Ann – Chloride, Arizona
www.starbudsbyann.com
Website Owner: Ann Costello
Online Since: November 2, 2007

I did this website for Ann for free. She is a sweet lady living in Chloride, Arizona. She has quite a background as a camera girl and showgirl when Las Vegas, Nevada was just a small gambling Mecca. If the cause is right and I have the time I will do website's for free.

Replumb Specialties Inc.  – Colorado Springs, CO
www.replumbs.com
Website Owner: Ja,es L Fine
Online Since: June 1, 2011

IThis is a brand new website. We had some plumbing and sheetrock work done on our home and the master plumber that did our plumbing and sheetrock recommended me to Jamey. This website is already ranking nationally.

St. George Vacation Rentals – St. George, Utah
www.st-george-vacation-rentals.com
Website Owner: Lem and Martha Lucia
Online Since: January 21, 2011

This is one of my newest website's. I am happy to start pulling away fro just doing real estate website's. What's nice about building this website is using different technology to provide the applications this website needs in order to function well.

Website Daycare
www.websitedaycare.com
Website Owner: Steve Barone
Online Since: July 16, 2009

This is my personal website. I had already done quite a few for my clients before I decided to build one for myself. A web designer should have a website right? 

Your Website Here

This space could be where your new website is featured! The examples here show only real estate website's but we can do just about any kind of website. Because we also offer an SEO package we will only do as many as five website's in any one city that are in the same business. We cannot get great rankings for everyone if we do too many of the same type of website in one town or city.

This is one good reason for you to jump on board and be one of the five to signup first. You'll have to be patient once we get underway as great search engine rankings do not happen overnight. Remember the old expression, "Good things come to those that wait".

Go to Google and type in “postcard printing.”Alink to GFX Printing in Mississauga appears as one of Google’s top 10 links, often listed in the top three. Type in “Kilkenny Castle stock photography” and a link to World of Stock in Vancouver appears as one of Google’s top 10 links, often listed in the top three. How is it that these small, relatively obcure Canadian businesses rank high in search engine results? It’s because their Web sites have been optimized for that very purpose.

Search engines are the starting point for most Web surfers.More than 75 percent of the online community in North America uses search engines, conducting almost 4 billion searches per month.

In short, search engines drive traffic to Web sites. Unfortunately, many business owners do not know how to list their Web sites in search engine databases. Nor do they know how to optimize Web sites to ensure their sites rank high based on search terms related to the products or services they offer.

“Companies and consumers are out there, searching the Web,” says Costco member Barb Sybal, who owns GFX (www.gfxinc.com), which specializes in custom color card products, including direct-mail postcards, bookmarks and CD covers. All of the company’s business is generated online, so a welloptimized site is crucial to Sybal.

Her work has paid off—repeatedly.Most of her customers find her online.And GFX recently landed a large promotional postcard printing job for St. Andrews golf club in Scotland. The Australian advertising agency that handled the campaign found GFX online—by conducting a Google search.

Be Submissive

To show up in search engine results, a Web site must be submitted to the search engine or indexed by search engine robots (’bots) that roam the Web looking for sites to add to search engine databases.

To rank high in search engine results, the site must be optimized for relevant search terms. And when it comes to search engines, rank matters.

The first site listed in search engine results receives three times more hits than the fifth site; the first 10 sites (generally the first page of results) are visited 78 percent more often than sites listed 11th to 30th, according to Atlas Solutions, a Seattle, Washington–based company that studies effective ways to use digital marketing.

Keywords are the Key

Search engine optimization (SEO) is all about relevant content and link popularity, says Barbara Coll, founder of WebMama.com Inc. (www.webmama.com), headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

“The more times your site uses keywords and phrases, and the more links there are to your site, especially from sites that use similar keywords, the higher your ranking.”

For instance, Steve Smith, Costco member and principal partner of World of Stock (www.worldofstock.com), set up an affiliate program. Affiliates create their own stock photography Web sites and promote the more than 41,000 digital images on World of Stock. Because his affiliates sell the same product, they use similar keywords. And because they have to close the sale on World of Stock, they create links to the World of Stock Web site.

Smith says he pays affiliates a percentage of each sale they generate, and affiliates create dozens of links to the World of Stock Web site. The links generate traffic and sales and boost World of Stock’s search engine rank, which generates additional traffic and sales. That’s the kind of vicious circle any business would like.

Image isn’t Everything

Sites that are heavily dependent on images are not suited for search engine optimization, since search engines can’t translate pictures to words.

However, there is a way around this. To feed key-words to the search engine ’bots, Smith places short captions above his images and inserts keywords in a hidden, ’bot-friendly code (known as “alt tags”) associated with each image.

This is an effective optimization strategy, says Coll,who advocates that businesses “design for your target market, but optimize for search engines.” In Smith’s case, the alt tags don’t detract from the images but they do work with the ’bots.

Other hidden text, known as meta tags, can also improve search engine results. Meta tags, embedded in Web design code, include page title, page descriptions and keywords related to the site. Search engines do not place as much emphasis on meta tags as they once did because of meta tag abuse (such as the listing of popular brand names on sites not related to the brand). However, every little bit of optimization boosts rank, and optimized meta tags should be included in any SEO strategy.

Keywords can also be used in hyperlinks (hot links) on Web sites. Instead of “Click here for more information on our products,” Sybal uses more descriptive links—“Postcard Printing, Webcards, Book Markers” and others.

The ’bots, always on the lookout for hyperlinks to add to search engine databases, pick up keywords in links.

Know Your Limits

Optimization alone does not cut it for some companies. To supplement free listings, or while waiting for sites to be indexed, they pay for listings or for ads that show up above or beside search engine results. To be effective, the listings and ads must also be associated with keywords that prospective customers use when searching for products or services offered by the advertiser.

Both Sybal and Smith have paid for ads, with mixed results. Smith ran a Google AdWords campaign for several months but put it on hold as he was generating better results with his free listing. Sybal, on the other hand, spends about $1,000 per month on AdWords. She pays a fee each time a visitor clicks on her ad, whether they buy or not, so she carefully monitors traffic and sales generated by her AdWords campaign to ensure her advertising dollars are well spent. After all, the bottom line is important for smallbusiness owners.

And the bottom line, when it comes to SEO, is this: It costs money to create impressive Web sites. It does not cost a lot more to optimize them. As the statistics demonstrate, Web surfers use search engines to find needles in the haystack known as the Web. Sites that are well optimized are like shiny needles in that haystack—a whole lot easier to see.

Links are Important, But . . .

. . . submitting a site does not guarantee a listing.

The best way to be listed or indexed is to have multiple links to your site.

Google and other search engines see links to a site as a validation of a site. The greater the validation, the higher a site shows up in search engine results, as long as it is well optimized for keyword searches that search engine visitors use.

That is why it is important to beg, borrow or barter links from sites that are thematically related to your site.

Some companies try to boost their search engine rank by using link farms, a so-called “black-hat,” or illegitimate, SEO technique.

To create a link farm, a company sets up numerous Web sites that link back to a main site. The content on all of the sites is similar to that on the main site.

On the surface, this might seem like a brilliant SEO strategy, and some SEO companies use link farms and other black-hat forms of optimization to boost the search engine rank of their clients’ Web sites. However, if identified as an illegitimately optimized site, the site can be delisted from the search engine database.

So when selecting an SEO company to help with optimization, conduct due diligence—check references, speak to previous clients and conduct a Web search based on the company’s name.

Keyword research will play a big part in understanding your market. Don't guess what your potential clients are searching for, find out using keyword research. Your keyword research will drive your site's content and getting this right is essential. Don't just chase keywords with huge search volume. Unless you are lucky thousands of other sites will also be chasing them and ranking for them could be tough. Look at the long tail of search.

Make your website search engine friendly!

Make sure each page has a unique title element, make sure each page has a unique meta description element, make sure each page has a unique meta keywords element (this one isn't critical but it's still worth doing). Use HTML H elements to organise your page content logically and use a CSS based design, not table based. In short use simple web page quality control. The majority of the sites we review miss these basics.

Create content that will help your users

Put your self into the shoes of the people you hope will visit your site. Don't Make Them Think! No aspect of your site should be a compromise, consider your users at every turn.

Have a link building strategy!

Links to your site are vital. You can build links by asking other sites to link to you or you can attract links by creating content others will want to link to. Don't expect quality sites to link to your site unless there's a good reason. Link building is a vital aspect of search engine success.

Be patient!

It's pretty much impossible to build a site and attract lots of search engine traffic quickly. There are exceptions but they are rare. Unless you have something earth shattering to say you need to understand that search engine success takes months and years, not days and weeks. For immediate search engine exposure consider using Pay Per Click advertising.

Be persistent!

Don't expect to build your site and then wait for the visitors. Most sites require constant effort and work if you want to see results. Think of your website as a diary, not a novel. If you haven't got the resources to do this in house consider using a website management service.

Unlike human editors, search engines use digital robots, which act like mini vacuum cleaners, sucking up information about your web site that will allow it to add each web page it visits to it's search index accurately.

In the meta tags <robots> you should instruct the visiting robot on whether you want it to see what you have on a web page, or decide not to allow it to see your private content. To allow this to happen, you have 2 choices. You can either add the <robots> meta tag or add a robots.txt file. Both are explained here.

The robots meta tag is a tag to tell a robot if it is ok to index this page or not. It also is used to invite a spider to walk down through all your pages. It is growing in importance.

Some search engines, such as Inktomi now fully obey the Robots Meta Tag. Inktomi will crawl down through a site if the Index,Follow syntax is used.

Robots meta tag format

The Robots META tag is placed in the HEAD section of your HTML document:

The format is quite simple: (case is not significant)

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>Your web page title </TITLE>

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">

</HEAD> <BODY>

Robot meta tag options

There are four directives that can be placed in a robots meta tag. The CONTENT section of the meta tag can contain: index,noindex,follow,nofollow and are separated by commas.

At this point, only the following combinations make sense:

The INDEX directive tells the robot it is ok to index the page.

The FOLLOW directive tells the robot it is ok to follow the links found on this page. Some search engine articles on Robots Meta tag say the predefined defaults are INDEX and FOLLOW, not true with Inktomi. The default with Inktomi is index,nofollow .

There are also, two global directives that can specify both actions: ALL=INDEX,FOLLOW, and NONE=NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW .

Robots Meta Tag Examples :

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,FOLLOW">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,NOFOLLOW">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">

Description meta tags appear in the <head> section of a web page. It is displayed in some search engines and should contain one or more repetitions of the primary keyword associated with your web page.

In addition to the title meta tag some search engines will display your description meta tags in the search engine results pages.

Google doesn't, but other engines such as AltaVista, Inktomi and FAST do. If you have unique titles on all your web pages and the copy on your site is in final form, description tags are a next logical step.

Your web page description meta tags need to compliment your title meta tag. It needs to tell your audience why they should click on your listing. What's in it for them? Why should they click? What will they find that sets your site apart?

For an improved search engine ranking, it's important to have keywords in your description meta tags, but more importantly , use the description tag to sell your website to your visitors.
Search engines that display the description meta tag typically display around 150 characters of it. Unlike the title tag, which is often limited to displaying 70 characters, you can put a more complete sentence or sales pitch in the description tag.

Meta description tags goes in the <head> section of your web page just like the title meta tag. If you already have title tags in the <head> section of your webpages, when your description tags are added it will look like this:

<html>
<head>
<title> Searching for my keywords? Find keyword here! </title>
<meta name="description" content="Tell me why I should click here and make sure to use your keywords in this description">
</head>

The bold text is where your actual description will be in the code of your web page.

Be creative and use your primary keywords in your "description meta tag".

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Where is the title meta tag on a web page?

A title meta tag is essentially an HTML code snippet that creates the words that appear in the top bar of your Web browser, for example, "Title meta tags." These words were entered into the title tag of the site's HTML code. They don't appear anywhere on the actual Web page. The HTML code for a title tag looks like this:

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Title meta tags</TITLE>
</HEAD>

The title tag is usually the first element in the <HEAD> section, followed by meta description and meta keywords tags.

Some Web site creation tools automatically generate the title tag from information you provide. You may have noticed Web pages that are labeled "Page 1," "Page 2," or "Home Page" in the browser bar. Labels like these are used by beginning Web site designers who simply don't know how to use title tags for maximum benefit.

Title meta tags and search engine ranking

All search engines use title tags to gather information about your Web site. The word(s) in the title tag will appear in the hyperlink listings on the search engine results page; people click the hyperlink to go to your site. Arguably, your title tag is second in importance only to the actual text on the page in determining your search engine ranking.

So far as placement of your title tags is concerned, most search engine experts agree that it probably doesn't matter if the title tag is the first element in the <HEAD> section. However, I believe that good coding practice argues for placing it first.

What not to put in your title met tags

More important than the placement of the title tag are the words you put in the tag, and the order in which those words appear. Many site owners mistakenly believe they should put their company names in this tag. This is only a good idea if you are a well-known company that people will be searching for by name, such as Coca-Cola or McDonalds. Otherwise, you should assume that most potential customers will be searching for specific products or services, not a particular company name.

For example, if your company is named "Johnson and Smith Inc." and you are a tax accountant in Utah, putting only "Johnson and Smith Inc." in your title tag will probably be fruitless. If you absolutely insist on including your company name in the title tag, put it at the end of the tag, after the more important keyword information. (A number of search engine gurus believe that some search engines give more weight to words that appear first in the title tag.)

Title meta tags should be specific keywords and keyword phrases

As the Utah tax accountant, you would want your company's site to appear in the search engine results for searches on keywords such as "Utah tax accountants" and "CPAs in Utah." You would need to be even more specific if you prefer to work for people only in the St. George area. In that case, use keywords such as "St. George tax accountants" in your site's title tags. This is a key point: If you're only seeking customers or clients in a specific geographical region, your keywords need to reflect that geographical specificity. People looking for a tax accountant in St. George may begin their search by simply entering "tax accountant" in the search engine. However, once they see that their search is returning accountants from all over the world, they'll narrow the search by adding "St. George" to their search terms. When they do, you want your site to be right there on the first page of new results.

In our St. George accountants example, you could create a title tag that says

<TITLE>St. George tax accountants</TITLE> or you could say <TITLE>St. George CPAs</TITLE>.

However, there's more than enough space in the title tag to include both of these important keyword phrases. (In fact, search engines will display 60 to 115 characters of your title tag.) Here's an example of a better approach:

<TITLE>St. George tax accountants St. George CPAs</TITLE>

Most search engines are not case-sensitive. In the past, a few of them were, so it was important to try and utilize both lower and upper case in your Title as necessary. Since most engines don't make any case distinction any more, I recommend creating Titles that look the most enticing; that is, something that will get the user to click on your listing. Whether this means you prefer ALL CAPS to make it stand out, or first letter caps, is up to you.

As for placing the word "St. George" twice in the title tag, I have found this approach to be both permissible and effective. Just make sure that you don't put the same words right next to each other. For example, a tag that reads "Accountants in St. George — St. George CPAs" is very likely to trigger a red flag with the search engines, so that the word could get ignored entirely. It's also not a good idea to use a word more than twice or to repeat more than one or two words total in the title tag. However, if you keep these caveats in mind, it's fine to repeat one or two keywords in your title tags.

Use only keywords and phrases that are in the text on your web site

If you're not sure what to put in your title tag, take a look at the text within the page itself. If you've done a good job with your writing, you should find all the keywords you need right there on your page. Simply choose the most relevant ones for the title tag. If you can't find any good keywords on your page, it's time for a rewrite.

The optimal approach when creating a Web site is to think of all the keyphrases that best reflect your business, and then compose text around those phrases. When you go to write your title tag, you simply revisit the keyword list, make sure the keywords are being used on the page, and poof, you've a good, keyword-rich title tag.

But remember: If the words don't appear somewhere in the text of your page, they shouldn't be in your title tag.

Using our tax accounting firm example, suppose you look at the text on your page and notice that the phrase "Utah tax accountant" doesn't appear anywhere on the page. Does this mean you shouldn't use this phrase in the title tag? Well, yes and no. If you're not willing to change the text on your page, then no, you shouldn't put those words in your title tag. However, you can also forget about ranking high for those words! The smart thing to do is to rewrite the text on your page so that it utilizes the keywords that are important to you. This doesn't mean to just stick the words at the top or bottom of the page. It doesn't mean to hide them in the background. Nor does it mean to put them in a tiny font so that no one will notice them. And it doesn't mean to simply put them in your meta keyword tag. If keywords are important enough that you want your site to be found under them in the search engines, they are important enough to be elegantly incorporated into the body text of your page.

Once you have incorporated important keyphrases into the text of your site, all you have to do is take these same phrases and put them in your title tag. It really is that simple.

Getting a better search engine ranking in the major search engines is important, but do not fool yourself—it is not the “be all.” How many times have you conducted a search and ended up with over a million results? If your site is listed at 999,000, how many people do you think will visit? If you rely only on the search engines for your customers to find you, they probably won’t.

That being said, there are some things you should do before you submit your web site to the search engines. To make your site competitive, you need to “optimize” your web pages. What does that mean? It means making your pages “search engine friendly.”

Although meta tags do not weigh that heavily anymore in search engine rankings, they are still important.
Meta tags placed between the <head> </head> tags.

<title>Use Web Page Titles To Improve Your Search Engine Rankings</title>
<meta name="description" content="Improve your search engine rankings by using your title.">
<meta name="keywords" content="web, page, titles, improve, search, engine, Rankings">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> 

Found by adding a comment like this under the meta tags is benefitial.

<!– Best prices on pet exotic frogs anywhere on the internet. These White's Tree Frogs can be shipped overnight to arrive healthy and happy. Order online today. –> 

Unlike human editors, search engines use digital robots, which act like mini vacum cleaners, sucking up information about your web site that will allow it to add each web page it visits to it's search index accurately.

Yes, absolutely! There are many reputable companies and freelancers (including me) that can help you optimize your website. But there are far more that will take your money without even a second thought.

If you own a website you probably get the emails once or twice a week saying “We can get you top Google rankings overnight”. Yeah right and if you believe that, I have a bridge in San Francisco that I’d like to sell to you.

Always do one thing if you are considering their proposal and that is to see if you can find their website on the Internet buy searching for logical keywords and phrases. Surely if they are good enough you should be able to find them. In my experience I haven’t found one yet that was legitimate.

Another thing you should do is have them provide a list of websites they have optimized. You should be able to find these websites on the Internet as well but not buried in the results. They should be on page one.

During my 20-year experience in the SEO (search engine optimization) world, I can easily say that self-taught individual site owners seem to know more than most SEO companies.

Why do I say this?

A site owner that relies on traffic for business income has much more interest in making their site work. They know their business, industry, and presumably adhere to a code of ethics an SEO company might not understand. They play with their site data, constantly massaging SEO data and obsessively check search engine results to see it their SEO is working. An SEO company probably wouldn’t come close to this type of attention.

Unfortunately, there are a growing number of bad SEO companies and SEO scams that prey upon naive site owners. Before you consult with an SEO company protect yourself from falling prey to an SEO scam artist and educate yourself first:

A good SEO professional will tell you everything you need to know and more when it comes to working on your website and there’s absolutely no reason why they shouldn’t. SEO is tedious and time consuming work. Even if most people knew what to do they still wouldn’t have enough time in the day. That’s why people need to hire a professional.

I have provided numerous free tools here for those of you who want to give it a shot yourselves. You may also feel free to contact me as I am always willing to help.

Your search engine ranking can improve with great "keywords" meta tags.

Keywords Meta tags improve your search engine ranking.

The keyword meta tags is placed after the description meta tag, just before the copyright meta tag, as shown below.

<meta name="description" content="Add your description here">
<meta name="keywords" content="add keywords here">
<meta name="copyright" content="©2005 WebSeo ">

Primarily the keywords meta tag contains a series of keywords which represent the content of your web page. The tag must only contain keywords already within the content of the page and should be seperated by a comma. The comma however is a point of discussion, as some SEO's differ on opinions to whether no commas is as effective. I for one have always had success by using the comma technique.

Not all search engines use the keyword meta tag, but a lot of the large search engines and directories do, so it is a good practice to use it.

Use our Keyword Extractor to take keywords from your web pages and add them to a correctly coded keyword meta tag.

Optimized keyword meta tags is becoming search engine friendly!