Maureen McCullough LLC on DesignFirmsMaureen:
I am writing to let you know how happy I am with your SEO performance. I knew search engine ranking was important in achieving customers. And, I had initially spent considerable hours attempting to do this myself. Then, I began hiring SEO companies and started burning through considerable – for me at least – money with poor results and lots of promises.
I got very lucky. In placing key word searches, I saw a website that was always at the top of page rankings in my category. And, there at the bottom of their homepage was your link. It was like finding a vein of gold in an unpromising mountain. My traffic is up 38% in less than 3 months. More important, I am finally achieving sales! So, the hits that come in are now buyers who are looking for my product. I cannot thank you enough for what you have done for my sales.
Sincerely;
Bruce Schleicher
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SEO Services We Offer ~
Realizing from the feedback we get from our clients and prospective clients that the small business is struggling now more than ever, and based upon our knowledge that quality SEO services are crucial to your online success, we’ve made our SEO services even more affordable to help the small business owner achieve the website traffic levels and search engine visibility they need to be successful.
Any small business owner who is serious about improving their online presence and taking their business to the next level should be able to afford quality SEO services. These SEO services should not be a high priced luxury that only a few companies can afford. This is why we price our SEO services to ensure sustainable, repeat business from our clients as well as valuable referrals that turn into new clients, because our clients are pleased with the results they are getting.
In all cases thus far, our SEO services have eliminated any need for our clients to spend hard earned money on PPC (pay per click) or any similar plan.
Here’s What You Get:
- Analysis of search engine standing on the major search engines
- Analysis of keywords, keyword density, and meta tags
- Analysis of traffic stats, analytics, bounce rates, and visitor patterns
- Analysis of your website’s quality content and copyrighting
- Design and layout analysis
- Quality inbound and outbound links analysis
- Niche market analysis
- Recommendations for changes
- Implementation of recommendations
Our package of 4 hours a month has been shown to be the optimal amount of time that we can do the most good for you. You don’t need more and less won’t benefit you. All of the point’s shown above are critical to our analysis of your website and thus to our implementation of quality SEO on your behalf and on behalf of the success of your business.
Guarantees
To guarantee top 10 positioning in the search engines is not only unethical but it is also completely ludicrous. It is impossible to realistically guarantee this as there are so many variables extending way beyond Google’s algorithms.
What we DO guarantee, however, that as long as you are open and receptive to our recommendations and are willing to work with us, you will see an impressive gain in traffic, search engine positioning and page rank over time. How much time? In our experience, with our efforts behind you, 3 to 6 months is completely reasonable. We’ll get you out of the “sandbox” faster and into the mainstream easily within that time. Results could be sooner ~ depending on how much damage control we have to take to fix your website or eBay store.
The longer we work with you, and you with us, the better it gets. We work diligently on your behalf and implement our professional niche market targeted SEO strategies to help you succeed.
Contact us with any questions you may have.
Experience Builds Our SEO Expertise
Our SEO services are given to you straight from the heart.
We ourselves have been on the Internet selling since 1999 and designing websites since 2000.
Knowing firsthand how difficult and daunting a task it is to get a solid foothold for a website on the Internet, we made it our business to learn SEO ~ search engine optimization ~ literally from the ground up.
Having experienced the many changes that the Internet, web site design, e-commerce, information technology, and the search engines themselves have gone through, we made it our mission to hone our SEO skills as expertly as possible. We design websites using ONLY organic SEO (search engine optimization) techniques.
Hard work, research, experimentation and ultimately experience paid off. Not only for us but obviously for our website design clients.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Return on Investment (ROI)
Many many online business owners we know have made the decision to diversify their venues.
While that in and of itself is a good thing, as it is never wise to put all your eggs in one basket or to back yourself into a corner, how much diversification of venues is enough?
When does diversifying your venues turn into stretching yourself too thin with little or no return on investment?
One could argue that if you don’t try different venues you’ll never know what will work. One could also argue in favor of all the free venues out there. These are all valid viewpoints. However, the question remains:
Can you keep up with all venues adequately to ensure they give you a return on your investment that makes them a valued venue for your business?
If you have an eBay store it is only natural that you would also have your own website. eBay fees are enough to kill any budget, and coupled with the ridiculous star rating system and legendary lack of promotional exposure, a website of your own is a natural spin-off. It’s your own playground, with your own set of rules, costing you a fraction of your eBay fees ~ at your website you pay only for your hosting fees every month and whatever your shopping cart cost you initally, plus whatever your payment processor charges you for payments. Ah, but what about exposure? eBay still is the world’s largest marketplace ~ how do you get the people to come to your website?
Alright. So you have your own website. Chances are you’ve either invested a fair bit of money having it designed, search engine optimized, or both. Or, you are a die-hard do-it-yourselfer (DIY’er for short) who doesn’t feel the need to call in a professional.
If you’ve had an SEO expert work on your website, chances are down the road you eventually decided to “do the SEO yourself” because you wanted to “save money”. Fair enough.
However, down the road again, your website sales have slacked off, your search engine visibility is barely there. Your website, like your eBay store, had become yet another disappointing venue.
Off you go in search of more venues to sell on, more ways to get your name out there. So, you sign up with a bunch of free auction sites, you make a bunch of Squidoo lenses, sign up with some link exchanges that promise you quality links but in actually are little better than link farms (you don’t want to think about that now, though, as you are looking on the bright side).
More time goes by. Little or no sales from the free auction venues, after all the time you invested in setting up and listing your items. Your multitude of Squidoo lenses have become too much to keep up. As a result you are getting little or no traffic or sales from them.
Those link exchanges you joined that promised you quality links and traffic back to you aren’t producing.
Once again, you wonder what the heck is it that you need to do in order to get traffic and sales???
Let’s examine this very common situation:
- Did you get your eBay store search engine optimized? Has that SEO been freshed up lately?
- The same goes for your website. By deciding to handle your website SEO yourself to “save money” you’ve actually lost money on traffic and sales.
- The alternative venues you decided to list on ~ did you investigate beforehand what their SEO practices are, and whether you are actually benefiting from that? Or, are you just another member in a vast sea of faces and products?
- Squidoo ~ have you had your lenses search engine optimized and your content made search engine friendly, keyword rich? Are you willing to devote the time necessary ~ weekly ~ to keep your lens and content fresh?
- Those link exchanges ~ what is their SEO policy? Do they even implement SEO? Are they niche targeted to what you sell? If not you are actually hurting your website search engine visibility and page rank by belonging to them.
There are and probably always will be two schools of thought on the subject of diversification and diversifying your venues.
There are those who have invested significantly ~ either in actual dollars or in considerable time spent (which, in the end is money because time IS money) ~ in our eBay stores, websites and blogs. We have all the tools in our hands for success.
There are those who are also on a continual quest to try things out, to spread out, spread around, keep diversifying in the hope that something, somewhere, will work out.
Regardless of which group you belong to, or whether you waffle somewhere in between ~ have you noticed a key element in all of this?
The key element is SEO. Good old search engine optimization. It’s alot more than keywords. It goes in deep down the field, to your competitor’s goalpost. Without it, you may as well close up shop. Without keeping your SEO fresh on a steady basis you fall behind.
Quality SEO is the simgle most important key element to your business after your products and your excellent customer service. SEO is also the single most important investment you can make in your business.
Deciding that SEO is the place where you need to cut back in order to “save money” is also the single highest reason why most online businesses fail. Why?
Business is business. If you snooze, you lose. Little, no or old SEO, you fall back, fall off the radar, your competitors bury you. It’s that simple.
SEO is also the single most effective remedy for increased search engine visibility and traffic which you can then convert into sales.
About Our Expert Search Engine Optimization Services
Expert search engine optimization cannot be accomplished by any of the following supposed solutions that many people commonly fall for:
- buying keywords
- buying links
- keyword stuffing
- highlighting and coloring words on a webpage
- inappropriate usage of alt attributes and title tags
- out of the box keyword or SEO generator products
Purchasing keywords, links or out of the box products may look initially like they’ve done something to help your website SEO. Why is this?
Your site was dreadfully lacking in ANY type of search engine optimization or maybe completely lacking in the first place, plain and simple. That’s enough to make any band-aided fix look like it’s going to work.
Paying someone for keywords, paying someone to get you 100 inbound links that don’t require a reciprocal link back, and paying for out of the box keyword or SEO products in the end only serves one purpose ~ to put money in the bank account of the person or company selling this to you.
Why do people fall for this?
The sellers of these products and services know that many website owners think that by purchasing said products and or services that they will rise exponentially in the search engines at a meteoric rate and quickly crush the competition. And so, these products are created to feed off of this desperation and quest for instant gratification on the part of the website owner.
The same goes for keyword stuffing, color highlighting of keywords on website pages, and inappropriate usage of alt attributes and title tags.
These are things any average website owner can do, and many website owners follow these practices because it’s either a trend that everyone else in their forum is doing at the moment or because they heard that it “helps”. In their desperation to attain higher page rank, more search engine visibility and and rise above their competition quickly, they bite into an apple that does more harm than good.
Let’s examine each point ~ each of which gives negative SEO and can destroy your search engine visibility ~
- Buying links ~ you can’t buy true love and you can’t buy quality links. Linking is an organic process that involves reciprocal links between two sites supporting a common theme. This benefits both sites ~ giving them quality inbound and outbound links based again, on a common theme. Buying links so you don’t have to reciprocate merely puts money in the pocket of the other website owner. It doesn’t guarantee that your link won’t end up on a nondescript page that never saw the light of day, which is usually what happens. Buying a link is not the same as buying quality advertising space.
- Buying keywords, or relying on out of the box automatic keyword or SEO generating products ~ again, this may work for you temporarily, however in the end this practice will end up costing you dearly in traffic and search engine visibility. Why? Because the keywords or supposed SEO will be far too generic for your business or will be the most popular searched keywords of the week, evoking trendiness instead of stability. The only way for your website to maximize it’s search engine potential ~ which logically has a major trickle down effect on your incoming traffic and sales ~ is to utilize targeted niche market SEO copywriting to create targeted quality content that can be converted to stable, organic keywords.
- Keyword stuffing ~ a truly ludicrous and unprofessional technique by which zillions of the same keywords are used over and over in page content, keyword meta tags, and description meta tags, including deviants of said keywords plus multitudes of mis-spellings. Keywords are meant to be a part of your website’s quality page content which is designed to “read” well and logically, in a normal readable manner. Keyword stuffing does not improve the keyword density of your website pages. This unprofessional technique destroys any credibility you may have built up with the search engines and can easily get you banned permanently.
- Highlighting and coloring keywords on a website page ~ another highly unprofessional technique that makes for a really ugly web page and serves absolutely no purpose with the search engines at all. Why? Bolding and coloring normal text that may or may not be your keywords is something that the search engine spiders and robots can’t see, therefore cannot detect, and which results in absolutely no value for your website in terms of increased search engine visibility.
- Inappropriate usage of alt attributes and title tags ~ alt attributes are generally used with images. Alt attributes were originally created for site impaired people as well as those who use a browser that does not display images, so that they would know what the image was or was about. Used responsibly, alt attributes can give a fairly keyword rich description of said image, thereby fulfilling the usability originally intended and lending to the overall page keyword density. Title tags are exactly that ~ a brief title of the image, using a few keywords that have relevance to the image and to the page. Used irresponsibly, they are great tools for keyword stuffing.
Our Expert Search Engine Optimization Techniques ~
Quality expert search engine optimization is not a quick and dirty option. No meteoric rise to fame. It is an ongoing process that we do very carefully. We employ a great deal of niche market knowledge, meticulous research, alongside a plan of action crafted by the website owner that outlines the next level they want to take their business to. We create expertly search engine optimized copywriting in order to maximize the website’s quality content, analyze traffic and bounce rates, and monitor the competition.
You will find all of our SEO techniques are organic, transparent and carefully designed to make the most of your niche market. We implement changes over a period of time, thereby keeping the website “fresh” for the search engine robots and spiders, and you get to see the gradual change in both your traffic levels and your search engine standing, as well as your pagerank.
Maureen McCullough LLC provides you with affordable, professional and friendly website design, eBay store design and SEO / Marketing services, years of experience, and a proven track record ~ do not hesitate to Request A Quote today or view some of our most popular design and SEO packages!
