| How Do Customers Find Your Website? How well your website ranks on Google, MSN, Yahoo and other search engines could determine your online business success. During challenging times to market a business, such as a recession, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and Social Media Optimization (SMO) can be cost effective ways to market your business. SEO is the practice of modifying a website so it can be properly read and indexed by search engines. When properly done, SEO can increase your changes of placement on the top search engine results pages, specific to your industry and customer niche. When done incorrectly, poor SEO tactics, such as bad HTML coding on your website, can actually impair a search engine's ability to take inventory of your site, or it could even ban it completely. Shock Marketing includes free SEO on all new website projects to help your business get noticed by new and existing customers. How Can Shock Marketing Help Me To Be Successful With SEO? SEO success is largely dependent on intelligent keyword choices, well written source code and relevant content presented clearly to both the end-user and search engine. The SEO world is also constantly changing. The major search engines are constantly revising how they do business. Shock Marketing understands this ever-changing environment and stays up-to-date on the latest industry trends. Our team is constantly monitoring what gets SEO results and what does not. Our goal is to get your website listed where you want it to be, while you gain the unique site visitors to hit your goals. It doesn't matter how great a website your business may have, if no one can find it. When purchasing an SEO package with Shock, we provide our clients with a monthly tracking report, which shows the position of the selected keyword search items in the top 10 search engines. We can also benchmark these reports to show your progress improvements over time. Stay Away From Unethical SEO Practices Shock Marketing only uses ethical techniques that are approved in the SEO industry. Other techniques, such as, ghost pages, doorway pages and keyword stuffing are not acceptable in our industry and Shock Marketing will not participate in any of these unethical methods. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - What Is Included As Part Of Shock's SEO Package? Shock includes: A website review; review and assessment of five targeted keywords; 15 key words/phrases optimized; website analysis report; optimization of titles and meta tags for up to 30 pages; alt tags and hyperlink optimization; keyword position check for the website in Google, Yahoo, MSN up to 10 keywords; Google sitemap creation; Google Analytics account creation; Google Webmaster account creation; Yahoo sitemap creation (XML); robot.txt creation. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) - What Features Are Included As Part Of Shock's SEO Package? As part of our SEO package, we will include SEM elements that include: submission to the major 20-80 search engines; submission to approximately 450 directories in relevant categories to your business; submission of your written articles to quality article directories; submission of your press releases to quality press release directories. Search Media Optimization (SMO) - What Features Are included As Part Of Shock's SEO Package? As part of our SEO package, we will include SMO elements that include: social bookmarking into 50+ social sites, including social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook, etc.), Social Bookmarking Sites (Del.icio.us, Stumbleupon, etc.), Content Voting Sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.), and Forum Postings. |