1. What is the difference between pay per click and natural/organic SEO?

Organic SEO, also know as natural SEO, is the term given to the process of producing traffic from natural search engine optimization practices. This includes a combination of design, user friendliness, keyword density/placement, hidden tags, backlinks and content geared toward directing targeted visitors to your website for specific terms.

PPC is where you bid for clicks. The negatives are that studies show 60 – 90% of clicks are from your competition, and looki-loers. These PPC ads appear on the top and to the right. Studies show that consumers know these are paid listings and avoid them. Costs can run $2 – $10 per click.

2. Can you guarantee placements?

Yes. We are 100% confident that our techniques and technology will gain you minimum 20 page 1 placements within 3 months or your monthly campaign is free of charge until the rankings are achieved, up to one year. We don’t take on clients we determine would not benefit. That’s bad for your business, which is bad for our business.

3. What is the ROI?

An ethical SEO company cannot determine your ROI. That depends on the economy, competitors, having an effective website, sales, and your industry. For small-medium sized businesses our aim is to get top placements and increased traffic to generate 1-5 leads per day and brand awareness.

4. How do you access our website and what do you need access to?

We need login information from either your webmaster or internet hosting provider to access your FTP (file transfer protocol) or an admin interface. We work with the source codes (raw files), HTML and PHP files.

5. What are the typical rates?

Depending on the analysis, competition and key terms, a typical SEO package runs $2000 – $8000 for a 90 day retainer and $200 - $800/month maintenance/reporting on a month to month contract. We will work with you to determine a price point and structure that fits your needs.

6. Do you do web design too?

No. We are specifically a company that gets you prime rankings and drives traffic to your website. SEO is a seperate industry from web design. If you are thinking of a web re-design as well, let us know, and we can help you start good SEO by making sure the designer makes an SEO friendly site. And then we can work on your SEO campaign once the designer has completed the site.

7. What happens when I stop the monthly payments, do my listings disappear?

Short answer is no. The SEO work done to the site is yours. But rankings are not a constant. They fluctuate depending on updated algorithms by the search engines, your own competition, and other factors out of your control. SEO is a process or continual monitoring, testing, and adjusting. This is why most of our clients keep on a monthly plan once their initial work is completed.

8. How long does it take to see organic/natural listing results?

Search engines take time to index new changes we make to the source code. Within 15 - 30 days your new listings will begin to appear. By 30 - 60 days the majority of your targeted phrases will appear.

9. Do you do analytics?

Yes. We can monitor your sites page views and send monthly reports for an extra fee. Rates run from $200 - $500 set up (depending on size of site) and monthly reporting is $50/month.

10. What’s included in the monthly maintenance?

That depends on the scope of work agreed upon. We will monitor your SEO campaign to keep climbing rankings, and watch for changes in the search engines that alter your rankings. We can include additional portal page construction, linking and SEO services monthly as well. A monthly ranking report will be emailed to you showing you where your site ranks on MSN, Yahoo! And Google.

11. Do you do other online marketing or web services?

Yes. Let us know what services you are seeking, and we will add that in the rate quote.

12. Why should we go with you over the competition?

• we’re local (face to face is better than over seas or out of area)
• we guarantee page 1 results
• we rank above the competition for our own terms
• we’ve optimized 1000’s of websites successfully
• our small business allows us to keep your price below our competitors
• excellent customer service
• we have the newest technologies and tools
• we love what we do