Search Marketing (SEM), or Search Engine Optimization (SEO), is a complicated, ever obtuse process.
Search engines are constantly changing their algorithms, shuffling their indexes, merging results and sharing content. Sadly, the only consistent thing about Marketing your website to search engines is that what works really well today probably won't work quite as well tomorrow.
That's why you need an experienced Marketing Professional who knows what major search engines are doing to compete with blackball online marketing tactics. If Google so much as farts, we know about it. If Yahoo! gets stubborn, we'll use our resources to get your rankings back to the first page.
Working with search engines is a long-term, high maintenance relationship. We have the high level of commitment it takes to manage that relationship so you don't have to, always with your budget and concerns in mind.
One thing you can do however without doing anything other than
watching my video on it, is be wary of PR Page Rank Scams which I mention in the
video.
Unfortunately, as with any group of businesses out there in the market place there are always a few that has to ruin it for the rest of us professionals.
The bottom line is there are a lot of businesses out there that are now starting to come out of the internet woodwork claiming they can provide SEO services that are designed to increase your page rank etc.
You see most of us professional marketers know that SEO is a committed and lengthy process. So understanding what is needed is in most cases very simple to process with the right resources in place. But generally speaking most SEO programs that are designed to increase page rank truly end up costing between $1,200 and $4,500 for a 3 month campaign, depending of what is included in the program.
However there are fraudulent businesses that will claim to get first page results within 3-5 days or in some cases 24-48 hours!!! Chances are…This Is A Lie!!! Be aware that there are people that will try to deceive you. But you can avoid this very simply.
First, you need to find your self a free Page Rank (PR) Checker. There are many free versions available. I am using
http://www.top25web.com/pagerank , which uses Captcha to confirm your human qualities; as well as
http://instantpageranker.com/ , which also appears to be very accurate without having to use Captcha.
Then you should first track your own page rank to see what you main page indexes at. This will be a number between 0 and 10. Pretty self explanatory 0 being no page rank and 10 being the most visible page rank.
Then you want to do the same for the company that is trying to sell you the service. Chances there if they are legitimate than they will have a very high page rank signifying they have been around for awhile and that they are linked to from other high ranking sites online. If you find they have a low page rank, keep in mind it doesn’t necessarily mean they are setting a marketing trap. However you should be cautious and definitely not commit to them your account or personal information if they have a page rank lower than your own.
You can watch more about this
here.
If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them.
Labels: Avoiding Internet, Marketing, Online Scams, Scams, SEO, Trap