More and more employers and recruiters are searching job applicants names and addresses on the Internet in hopes of turning up dirt on them. They want to know what you’ve been up to in the past. You’d be surprised at the information you can find on someone on the Internet.

My Online Reputation Management services is for people who want a better reputation online and for those how want to minimalize bad press. It could be a disgruntled Customer or a blogger who just woke up one morning and decided they didn’t like you.

Whatever the reason, bad press on the Internet can keep you from getting job promotions or getting hired. It can also cost your business money if the bad press are a few bad reviews. You know what they say about bad press don’t you?

It travels faster than good news.

I can’t wave a magic wand and make all the bad press about you on the Internet go away. What I do is minimalize the bad press and use proven strategies to showcase the good qualities about yourself or your business.

Whether or a Politician looking to put forth a positive image or a Professional who needs some good press, give me a call and let’s talk about your Online Reputation Management.

Special Note: I reserve the right to refuse to work for anyone that I don’t like. Basically, if you’re being accused of something online and have been found guilty in a Court of Law, don’t call me to smooth it over. Also, if I just plain don’t like you, I’ll let you know. Don’t take it personal, there are just some type of people I don’t like. (for starters, if you’re rude, argumentative or dishonest)

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You want to know a secret of the Industry?

You don’t need no $5000 website! The Web Design industry has done a good job snowing small businesses into thinking they need an all out web site with Flash animations and Java Script. It’s how they make their money.

Truth is, you don’t need any of that. In fact, Search Engines cannot read Flash or Javascript code, so these two things can actually hurt the performance of your web site.

If you want to impress your friends and family, sure, shuck out the big bucks for one of those websites. If on the other hand, you want to a web site that is optimized to move up in the Search Engines, forget about those overpriced web sites.

As a small business owner, your website should do a few things to be successful.

1. Be Search Engine Optimized so the search engines will place it higher in the organic rankings.
2. Once ranked high in the Search Engines, it should be able to convert the traffic into Buyers. No fancy flash movie or Javascript is going to do that for you. You can have all the traffic in the World, but if they don’t click to buy something or call you, then you’ve wasted your money.

Take a look at some of the biggest names in retail. Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowes, Target, I could go on. They can afford to have the fanciest web sites on the Internet. But they don’t.

You know why?

Because they aren’t about to risk distracting their web site visitors with a Flash Movie, songs or other garbage. They want their visitors to order products and services from their websites. That’s why they’re simple in design and convert like crazy. They’ve already spent the big bucks on finding out how to turn visitors into Buyers. You don’t have to go and reinvet the wheel!

The websites I design and build are simple in nature and high converting. I’ve been an Internet Marketer as well as a Small Business owner for many years. I learned early on that in order to make money off the Internet, I had to convert Visitors into Buyers.

The last thing I want to do is have them distracted by a bunch of needless graphics and risk them forgetting why the came to my web site in the first place!

I use WordPress for the majority of my sites. While many think of WordPress as a blogging platform, it’s also a very powerful Content Management System (CMS). Not only that, but Search Engines like Google love sites build on WordPress and I find getting WordPress sites ranked in the Search Engines is a little easier when the site is based on the WordPress platform.

Not all web sites are right for WordPress. That’s why I can also build attractive, yet very functional sites based on CSS and HTML.

Contact Me and let’s discuss your business. We’ll find out what you need and get you set up quickly and efficiently.

Getting Your Message On Target With Potential Buyers

Getting traffic to your website is one thing. The art of getting all those Internet surfers to buy from you is another. This is where SEO Copywriting comes in.

Your web page should be written in a manner that will make visitors to your site click on products to purchase them or contact you about buying your services. Unfortunately, this has been forgotten by many so called SEO experts and Web Designers today. Most do not know the first thing about CopyWriting so they discount it.

My Copywriting services will take as many pages as you want to pay for and optimize them for the traffic coming into your site. The pages will be SEO Optimized for 1 to 2 keywords. If you’re selling products, then each product page of your site should be optimized to convert traffic into Buyers.

If your site has thousands of pages, then you may only want to have the products or services with the highest profit margin optimized.

My fee for SEO CopyWriting is $75 per page. This price is included if you hire us to do the SEO optimization of your website.

Search Engine Marketing consist of many things. What comes to mind for many when they think of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is Pay Per Click advertising such as Google’s Adwords, Yahoo’s or MSN’s pay per click programs.

When I first started out, I used GoTo.com and and later Overture (yeah, I know, I’m dating myself. Both of those have been gobbled up by the Big Three search engines now)

It was a way for me to get immediate results until my new websites had gained top rankings in the Search Engines.

Sure, I got traffic. But I had to pay for it. As a Small Businessman with a budget, I couldn’t keep throwing good money after bad if something didn’t work.

So I learned the ins and outs of the different Pay Per Click networks available to the business community. On some of my businesses, I ran PPC Campaigns costing in the thousands of dollars each month. I wouldn’t have paid that kind of money unless I knew what I was doing and I was getting the results I needed!

I learned quickly that you can loose a lot of money real fast with Pay Per Click networks if you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s how I learned how to run PPC campaigns, because when I started experimenting with them, I was losing my money real fast for little efforts!

PPC is great for trying out promo’s or sales. Perhaps you have a new product line? PPC will get you a head start on garnering your share of traffic and sales. But be forwarned, it will cost you money. This is how major search engines make a lot, if not most, of their advertising money.

I’d recommend starting to budget at least $1000 per month for a PPC campaign. I’ve seen success with as little as $500 per month, but if you know what you’re doing with Pay Per Click programs, $500 will bring in a few new faces.

SEM is more than PPC

As I’ve said elsewhere, finding local Internet Portals where you can advertise your business is a specialty of mine. When I started out, it was the type of places like local directories that really helped boost the traffic to my website and increased sales.

I can help you find many local websites in your area that will increase traffic and sales.

I provide my Clients a no nonsence, strategic approach to getting their websites ranked higher in the Search Engines to increase their traffic and convert that traffic into buyers. For my local Clients, my guarantee is this.

If I can not get at least one of your primary keywords ranked in the Top 10 Organic Search Results of Google within 6 months, I’ll refund your fee.

To date, I’ve never had to return anyone’s fee and I doubt I ever will.

No B.S., no long term contracts, no excuses.

How can I make a guarantee like that? Easy. I’ve been doing it since 1995. I know how to optimize a website to get it ranked on the first page of Google. I have dozens of examples of how I’ve taken websites targeting global, highly competitive keywords and ranked them on the front page of Google SERPS.

Can your current SEO Company prove they can do that?

Let’s face it. If you’ve been paying an SEO Company month after month for results for your local company’s website but haven’t seen any increase in traffic and sales, chances are real good that you’re wasting your money. After all, when you boil it down, Search Engine Optimization is about ranking your website so that you can benefit from organic (free) web traffic and then converting that traffic into buyers. If you’re not getting the results that you’d hope with your current SEO Company, or you’re thinking about hiring a SEO Company, Contact Me with you questions. I’ll be glad to show you what a real Guaranteed Houston SEO Company and ethical search engine optimization can do for your business.

How Much Does SEO cost?

High quality - high performance SEO doesn’t cost a dime. Really. A high quality SEO campaign will make you money with high rankings, free naturally occurring organic traffic and high conversion rates. Poor quality SEO will cost you more than the fee you paid to your SEO company.

But you probably want to know what my fees are for Search Engine Optimization don’t you? I’d like to tell you how much it would be for your site, but since every Client has different needs, I have to quote each project individually.  My SEO services include such critical task as:

• Keyword Research to determine your primary and secondary keywords
• Researching your competition to see which Keywords they’re ranking for
• Evaluating your website and making any necessary changes
• Initiating a Link Building campaign to increase your rank and popularity among Search Engines
• Investigating your specific local market to identify areas where your website should be positioned to take advantage of local Internet searchers
• Plus many other factors that will affect how your website ranks in the major Search Engines and local Internet sites.

You had the lowest full service bid of any SEO Firm we contacted, why so cheap?

First off, I don’t consider my work “cheap”. It may be less expensive as some SEO’s, but certainly not “cheap”.

The main reason my fee’s are lower is because I work out of my home. I don’t have to spend money on an Office and all the other expenses that comes with having a big Office staff, designers and technicians. I also don’t have to pay huge salaries to Company Officials.

I’ve never felt the need to have my Clients pay a “monthy maintenance fee” or any other type of fee. Pay once and be done with it. I’m not going to gouge you month after month like some SEO Companies.

By doing the work myself, I can keep a tighter control on quality. I can also react quicker should I see an opportunity for your website to take advantage any changing situations with your market. I don’t have to wait for an employee meeting or brainstorming session.

The few times I may outsourse work (such as technical writing, etc), I only use the highest quality professionals that have a proven background. These are the same professionals I’ve used for years on my own websites.

Do You Submit My Website To Thousands of Directories Like Some Other SEO Companies?

No. Directory submissions is sooo 1990’s! At one time it worked very well (back in the 90’s). Nowadays the major search engines consider the act of continually submitting your website to Direcotries as Spam and they can, and do, penalize your website for such outdated and unethical behaviour.

Sadly, many so called “SEO Companies” still use this practice. Many will tell you that it’s necessary and charge you a monthly fee. This tactic is nothing more than a scam.

There are directories where your website needs to be included. However, using automated software to auto submit your url to hundreds or thousands of directories is a no-no with today’s Search Engines! I’ll let you know which directories you site needs located in.

Do You Submit My Website to hundreds (or thousands) of Search Engines?

No. Just like with the directory submissions, submiting your website to Search Engines over and over again is considered Spam and you can ruin your chances of ever ranking for anything if they penalize you.

There are only 3 major Search Engines that matter. These three, Google - Yahoo  - MSN, garner over 80% of the Internet Searches each day. Out of these three, Google is by and far the most popular. Some statistics put their share of search volume at 70% to 90%. So you see, this is why we concentrate on getting your website on the first page of Google. It’s simply where the large majority of Internet users end up.

Beware of these uneducated, unethical SEO “Experts” that claim to submit your site to hundreds of Search Engines. This is a sure sign that they either do not have a clue about what they’re doing or they’re intentionally frauding their customers.

Having said that, to get indexed in Google, Yahoo or MSN requires no submission if your SEO expert knows what he/she is doing. In fact, it’s been my experience that it takes much longer to get your website indexed when YOU DO submit it to the Search Engines. You go to the end of the line.

If done correctly, the Search Engines will find your site naturally. This is the best way. You stand a much better chance for high organic rankings this way than by submitting your site to them over and over.

Can You Guarantee To Get My Website Ranked #1 in Google, Yahoo or MSN?

No. And none else can either. Even Google has come out and said no one can guarantee you a #1 ranking. The Search Engines are continually changing their algorithms so that unethical Webmasters can not game their system.

Beware of companies that guarantee you a #1 ranking. Some will get you a #1 ranking in an obscure Search Engine no one every heard of, or a more common scam is to “buy” the keyword for your company name and pass it off to unsuspecting business owners as a naturally organic listing.

This is most often done with Google adwords. Let’s say your company is named Bob’s Big Blue Widget Company. You simply go to Google and buy the term “Bob’s Big Blue Widget Company”. Since no one else is likely bidding on that term, these unethical SEO’s can get this name for about 5 cents per click. They then go to Google, type in the search term “Bob’s Big Blue Widget Company” and your name shows up as #1 in the sponsored section at the top of the page. Voila! #1 ranking.

The problem is, rarely, if ever, does someone type in the search term “Bob’s Big Blue Widget Company!”

It’s also possible that there is no competition for your company’s name so when typing in Bob’s Big Blue Widget Company, your name comes up first in the organic results. Again, who would type that into the search field?

But Can’t I Just Join A Link Farm or Link Exchange Program And Get Ranked?

Not really. All Search Engines frown on this type of link building. In fact, this is another method some SEO’s use to build links to your site. All the search engines watch for this pattern and if you’re caught doing it, you site could be penalized or de-listed from the search engine index. Once your site is banned, it can be nearly impossible to ever get it indexed again. You’d be better to scrap it and start over with a new domain name.

Why Can’t I Have My Web Designer or Webmaster Perform SEO?

You could, but it’s been my experience these people know little, if anything, about what true Search Engine Optimization really is. As I said above, most think it’s just about submitting your site to thousands of directories and search engines and joining a link exchange.

I can’t tell you how many times I have to spend extra time undoing stupid, harmful actions of a Web Design firm or Webmaster on my Clients website.

How Long Will It Take To Rank My Site?

It depends. If you’re looking to dominate your local market area with low to moderate competition for your primary keywords, then you’ll start to see your site move up in the rankings within 30 to 60 days. If you’re trying to target highly competitive search terms, expect 12 to 18 months for a new site.

Obviously this is only if your site is search engine optimized.

As a Houston Tx SEO Consultant I provide my Clients targeting local markets with tangible results and back it up with my Iron Clad 100% Guarantee.

If I can’t get at least one of your Primary keywords organically ranked on the first page of a Major Search Engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN) within 6 months, I’ll refund your fee. All of it.

Hows that for a guarantee? Does your Guaranteed Houston SEO company offer that?

Many SEO companies will make you think that obtaining high rankings is some kind of magic they perform. It’s not. I obtain high rankings through systematic, proven and ethical techniques.

Need more proof? Here are just some of the keywords that I have ranked in the Top 20 of Google SERPS. I’ll show you the keyword, how many other websites are competing for that keyword and the position in the Google SERPS as of August 2008.

Competitive Keyword Rankings:

These are just a few of the hundreds of keywords I have ranked in the Top 20 search results of the major Search Engines. As you can see, most are very competitive 2 and 3 word phrases. Not some 5 or 6 word phrases other SEO companies tout as being able to rank high.

Now that you can see I have the skills to get your website top rankings locally or nationally, I’m going to tell you that these high rankings wouldn’t mean anything without being able to convert the traffic into Customers. That’s another advantage my services have over others. My sites convert the traffic from high rankings into Customers. Remember, high rankings mean nothing if the Customer doesn’t click on your site and come visit!

I know you have more questions. That’s why I’ve prepared a FAQ’s page in hopes of answering your them. If you don’t find your questions answered there, Contat me your Houston Tx SEO Consultant directly for Guaranteed Houston SEO results.

The truth about Search Engine Optimization, or better known as SEO, is that not all websites can obtain top rankings from Search Engine Optimization! Also, all Search Engine Optimization companies are not created equal. Unfortunately there are scores of Companies and individuals in the market today selling unsuspecting consumers “seo services” when they don’t have a clue as to what they’re doing. Some are Web Designers who read a few articles on Search Engine Optimization, figure they can do it, and add SEO services to their list of business offerings. Others are out to scam the business owner. Search Engine Optimization isn’t Rocket Science, but if your SEO expert doesn’t know what they’re doing, they’ll never get the results you’re paying for, or worse, end up getting your website banned from the Search Engines.

I’m A Small Business Owner Who Has Been Obtaining Top Rankings for Websites since 1995

I come from a Family of entrepreneurs. As a Kid, I watched my Dad start and grow his own Drilling company. Years later I would start my own companies in Construction, Transportation and Real Estate. With my services, you’re not only getting someone who has the knowledge of Search Engine Optimization, but you’ll be hiring someone who has first hand practical small business knowledge and experience. When we start working together, I’ll be more than happy to show you untapped markets your website may be missing

Is Your SEO Company Stuck In The 90’s?

“Back in the day”, getting high rankings was as simple as submitting your website to hundreds of Directories and Search Engines, over and over plus stuffing pages with invisible keywords. Now days, this is considered spamming by the major Search Engines and can actually get your website banned. If you’re paying a SEO company to continually sumbit your website to Search Engines and Directories, you’re throwing good money away and probably causing your website to be penalized by the Search Engines! Call me when you decide to get serious about getting your website organically ranked high in the Search Engines. I use only the latest safe, ethical, effective, cutting-edge “White Hat” techniques.

Local Search Marketing Done Right

I’ve ranked numerous websites for some of the most competitive keywords on the Internet. One of my favorite areas is the local search markets due to the challenges they present, especially in Houston, Dallas and Austin markets. I have years of experience marketing my own businesses locally and I can help you get your website the top rankings it needs to bring you targeted traffic. Not only that, I’ll be happy to suggest other areas where you may be missing out on potential new customers. Because your website is an extension of your business, it needs to be working at its maximum potential 24/7. If new customers can’t find it, it’s costing you lost business. Call me and we’ll get your website analysed and see where we can improve it so you can start bringing in new customers.

One Company Per Industry Per Geographic Area - That’s My Rule

When you choose me as your SEO company, you can rest assured I won’t be working for your competition. I only work with one company per industry per geographic area. How unethical is it to be taking your money and also be working for your competition? I wouldn’t like that if it happened to me and I’m sure you wouldn’t either.