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Frequently Asked Questions

Why are high rankings so important?

As users generally only explore the first twenty or thirty sites in the search results, achieving high rankings on the search engines will make an enormous difference in the amount of visitor traffic your site receives.

How long will it take my website to rank in the search engines?

Provided that your website has been properly optimized and marketed - several weeks to several months. It takes search engine spiders awhile to spider and index your website. Additional factors can enhance or deter the process including age of website, link popularity, search engine optimization, and content relevancy.

How long will it take my website to rank in the search engines?

• Google
• Yahoo
• MSN

What is your viewpoint on search engine optimization? Does it make a difference?

Achieving a high ranking on the search engines is like having the best advertising bargain imaginable. Think about it this way: of the millions of searches conducted each day, the web sites that appear at the top of the search results essentially get free advertising.

The resulting visitors to those sites are more likely to purchase products and services since they were specifically searching for that information. This means you have a very low cost of advertising with a probable high rate of return, giving you an excellent Return on Investment.

What search engine do you optimize for?

Competition amongst search engines is like any other business. Google is currently the most popular search engine that accounts for about 50% of all searches. The next best is Yahoo with 23% of the market. We have noted that when we do well at Google, we score well with the other search engines.

Does it help to resubmit my website to Google every once in a while?

First, let me tell you what you don't do. You don't use the "Add URL" form with Google at http://www.google.com/addurl.html. Believe it or not, using that form to let Google know about your site will actually hurt your PR and, at the same time, make Google rank you lower. In other words, you absolutely never want to use that form, or the similar form on any other search engine, to promote your website.

Can SEO companies guarantee high rankings?

Keep in mind that there are no guarantees when it comes to search engines. They don’t even guarantee that your site will be listed, let alone placed in the top rankings. With no ultimate control over the engines, we personally do not believe in misleading our own clients that we have such control by offering a guarantee for a particular ranking on particular search engines.

Google states "Beware of SEO's that claim to guarantee rankings" and we follow and agree with their guidelines on this.

We have had a 100% success rate to date. We believe you’d rather get what you paid for, so our proof is in the pudding.

Number of Pages Optimized?

Upto 5.

Number of key words targeted?

Upto 10. IE. the phrase "Cincinnati Wedding Photographer" would count as 3. "Cincinnati Wedding Photography" would bring it to 4. (Photography is the new word) The narrower the number of keyphrases we optimize for, the better chance we we will score on the most important keyphrases. 6-8 seems to be an optimum number to focus on.