"Search engine ranking is not a beauty contest;
it is combination of your website's content, the information
structure of your website and the quality of the websites that link to you..."

 
ADD URL SERVICES | SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION | WEBSITE PROMOTION

 
  Naturally, when we're designing websites, we strive to achieve the happy medium between a website that is as attractive to the eye as it is attractive to search engines.

 Search engine optimization is both an art and a science. We strike the fine balance between a visually stunning website and a website fully optimized for search engine promotion.

 Every search engine optimizer's favorite statistic says that 85% of all website traffic comes from search engines. In our experience, electron design's website clients receive more than 95% of their traffic from the search engines.

  Unless you have a multi-million dollar advertising budget for a full scale media blitz with television and radio spots and ads in major magazines, search engines are the most important means of promoting your business on the internet. A website that is not listed in the search engines correctly is the same as having no website at all.

  In a nutshell, if you own a hotel in Haiti and your website does not show up when you look for "hotels in Haiti" in the major search engines, your website has not been designed and promoted correctly.

 
OUR SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION PHILOSOPHY:

  Contrary to popular belief, getting "linked" in the search engines is much more involved than simply submitting the website to the "add URL" page. Every major search engine has a special way of interpreting the web pages in its index, called search algorithms. Each search engine uses these algorithms to determine how those pages should be classified and ranked in their search results.

  Frustratingly, there are many times when a web page that shows up in first position in Google.com may show up in twentieth position in Altavista.com, and vice versa.

  Our methods of search engine submission and optimization have been acquired through years of hard work, careful study, trial and error, and sometimes, frankly, dumb luck. The methods we employ create web pages that allow search engines to easily understand the important key phrases and words on our clients' websites.

  There are many ways to get top rankings in the major search engines. However, these can be classified into two major categories: Dirty Tricks and Best Practices.

  electron design never employs any search engine optimization techniques that fall under the "dirty tricks" category because that is the fastest way to send your website from #1 ranking today to #10,001 forever. These so called "dirty tricks" always get discovered sooner or later by the engineers who create the search engine algorithms which determine the website rankings. The day your website is labeled as employing illegitimate promotion techniques is the day your website falls off the map.

  Our technique is simple: we follow the "best practices" publicized by the search engines themselves as well as the knowledge earned through our 7 years of website promotion experience. We do this so that our clients' websites appear in the top rankings today, tomorrow and the year after.

  We believe that the use of our tried and true methods to promote your website will generate better long-term results. Most simply, the "dirty tricks" of today are the techniques that tomorrow's search engines will detect as illegitimate and place your domain name in the search engine's spammer "blacklist". Why run the risk of being blacklisted when your website can appear in the top 10 results legitimately?

  Remember, no one can "guarantee" top ranking in the search engines But the truth is most websites suffer from poor information structure, which leads to poor results. Our years of experience and research has helped us to consistently garner first page rankings for our clients (and ourselves): that is because we are experts at "professional website promotion" and "professional website design".

 
DETAILS OF OUR WEBSITE PROMOTION AND SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION SERVICES:

no charge for your initial consultation.

[ request your free initial website analysis ]

$5 per page of website / $75 minimum.
     (websites with 20 or more pages may inquire about our flat rate pricing)

[ request a detailed analysis of your website ]

PLEASE NOTE: The ranking report service offered by electron design is done manually; we do not use, nor do we recommend the use of automated rank checking programs.

  We will also install 3^rd party referral statistics monitoring software in your pages if you website does not currently have the ability to monitor visits ($18 fee, paid annually). This is vital to monitor the progress of your website search engine rankings.

$30 per page of website / $400 minimum.
Additional key search phrases $20 each
$150 for monthly manual rank checking and keyword tweaking (for 7 months)
$18 annually: 3^rd party referral statistics monitoring software (if necessary)

Your cost: $550 for 7 months.

[ request search engine optimization and website promotion services ]

If your site has not significantly changed positions for the better,
and increased real traffic to your site - we will refund 100% of your fees.*

PLEASE NOTE: This service requires FTP access to your web server in order to make the necessary changes.

PLEASE NOTE: There are many times when the design of a pre-existing website is in direct conflict with the needs of full optimization. In these cases the design of the entire website may need to be redone. If this is the case with your existing website, we will inform you of the problems so that your current designer can modify them, or present you with a bid for the re-design of your website.

  In our opinion, every commercial website should be in Yahoo.com's directory. On average, about 20-25% of our clients' daily visitors are referred by Yahoo.

  Most commercial websites should seriously consider bidding in the Pay-Per-Click programs offered by Overture and Google, especially as newcomers in competitive niches.

PAID SUBMISSION SITE DETAILS

Yahoo.com ― We will write your description and monitor the submission and placement of your website. $299 annually (billed by Yahoo.com). $25 submission fee (payable to electron design).

Overture.com  ―  We will analyze which keywords fit your market niche, write your descriptions and monitor status of your bids. $20 monthly (billed by Overture.com). $10 per 8 bid terms (payable to electron design). $ ??? depends on your monthly bid budget (billed by Overture.com). $10 per month for report and ROI report (payable to electron design).

Google.com AdWords Select ―  we will analyze which keywords fit your market niche, write your descriptions and monitor status of your bids. $10 per 8 bid terms (payable to electron design). $ ??? depends on your monthly bid budget (billed by Google.com). $10 per month for report and ROI report (payable to electron design).

 HOW MANY SEARCH ENGINES WILL WE SUBMIT YOU TO?

Learn about the number of search engines we submit your website to.

 SOME FINE PRINT DETAILS YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF:

I. Search engine submission and optimization takes time and careful analysis. Generally, you can expect to wait 8 - 12 weeks for the free submission websites to begin to displaying your website in their results. After this, we will analyze how the major search engines have interpreted your website and possibly tweak the key phrases, depending on the preliminary results.
  Since search engine optimization is literally a months-long process, and for this reason we strongly recommend that our clients also pay to be added to the Yahoo.com directory, which has a guaranteed 7 business day turn-around.

II. We do not accept every client who asks us for search engine optimization. We take pride in this because we will not do work that will not produce results for our clients.
  Why won't we take any search engine optimization client that comes our way? In some cases, the market is overly saturated for your key terms. If you own a bookstore in Cedar Falls, Iowa it is unreasonable to expect that your website will beat out Amazon.com for the search term "books". Why? one of the ways that most search engines determine your rank is by the number of other websites that are linked to you. It is very unlikely that a small business will ever get more links to it than a e-commerce monster like Amazon.

III. We do not recommend search engine optimization for websites hosted on "free servers" such as tripod.com and geocities.com, as too many search engines penalize against websites hosted on these free servers. Please consider having your website transferred to its own web server hosted by electron design.

IV. Our refund policy has restrictions: We will not refund fees paid to Yahoo or other 3rd party services and websites. You will receive a refund for the fees paid directly to electron design for SEO services. Also, in the case of extremely competitive search phrases, for instance, there may be instances where a longer period of time than 7 months might be needed. Clients with websites that fall into these competitive categories will be notified beforehand. Remember we don't take every client that comes along, only the ones that we can really help.
  Hey, what does "significantly" mean anyhow? Well, it depends on your website and keyword targets. Request a free website analysis and we'll let you know what we can do for you and what "significantly" means for your site.

V. We are proud to adhere to "best practices" in our search engine optimization. Before you consider our website optimization services, please take a moment to read what Google has to say about search engine optimizers.