Getting high search engine rankings for your web site is crucial to its long term success.
If you are not found when someone searches for products or services that you offer, they will give their business to somebody else - maybe a local competitor.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) takes lots of experience, research and plenty of trial and error. It is possible for your web site to achieve high rankings in major search engines for FREE, assuming your site designer knows what they are doing. You don't get long-term Top 5 rankings (Chart) by accident or luck!
So, how has THIS site ranked at major search engines? Using the generic keyword phrase "web site designs" we have ranked #1 at major search engines including Yahoo, MSN Search, Alta Vista and All The Web over more than 50 Million other result pages! At Google, we have been #2 (#1 in USA) for this phrase.
For just "site designs", we've also been #2 (#1 in USA!) out of 11.2 Million results. Not bad for 2 phrases most web designers consider "impossible" to earn high rankings for because of too much competition. Higher ranks = More traffic!
Our Top North and South Carolina Web Sites List (overhauled recently) has also been able to earn high rankings for many keyword phrases. Examples include #1 + #2 for South Carolina Web Sites and Carolina web sites out of 3.07 Million and 4.31 Million pages respectively.
It was also #1 for just Carolina sites out of 56.5 Million pages.
Since being redesigned with 100% valid XHTML, however, this site (offering FREE adverting in NC and SC) has regained its top ranking at Google over 137 MILLION other web pages.
Not too shabby. Still not impressed yet? Last February this site came up at #1 in Google for the phrase "Top of the South" over 800+ MILLION pages!
Unlike tradional yellow pages advertising - an expensive annual one-time shot, you can change and improve your web site's content on a regular basis to fine-tune your rank in various search engines.
Rather than just getting an alphabetical listing or hoping your display ad gets good placement on a printed page, you need to be near the top in search engine results (hopefully on the first page) for keywords that apply to your product or business services.
It takes lots of experience to do it right, with no "Black Hat" techniques (dangerous shortcuts). Let us help YOU!