Top 20 Search Engine Placement. They Guarantee It. Or Do They...?

I recently saw an ad for a search engine placement
service. They do all the things needed to get you a top
20 placement in x amount of engines for the small fee of
$1800. Note this fee does not include fees for joining
engines like Yahoo. No, that cost another $199 on top of
the $1800.

Ok. Besides a select few out there do we really have
$1800 to throw away? Yes, if you have a top 20 in the
engines your business can soar this is true. But are
these guys going to give it to you? I am sure there are
reliable companies out there that can do this for you in
a legitimate way but be careful who you deal with.

You have to be careful to ask them :
What search engines are we talking about?
A Yahoo engine or a "Wow I have 10 readers type engine"?
Will your top 20 be with your main keywords?
How long will it take?
What is my guarantee?

Example: If you sell shoes will you be listed in the top
20 under "shoes" or just under "red shoes" which
wouldn't help your business a whole lot except maybe
with people that like red shoes. Unless that is all you
sell is red shoes, then you have a corner on the engines.
Afterall how many shoe sites sell only red shoes? You
could probably bag that keyword phrase easily.

Which is where the guy charging $1800 comes in. He
can easily fix up your pages/tags to get you that top
position for "red shoes" but where is he going to be
when you have to do a home business site like many of
us have?

Well I wrote an asked him. I was curious of the response.
So I told him about my Homebased business site. I sell
informative ebooks with a resource full membership site.
Are you ready for his reply?
(These are his direct quotes)

"With regards to our service, we generally don't take
on sites like yours, due to the hyper-competitive
nature of the home-based business industry. Because of the
nature of our guarantee (timely results, and the fact that
we really are not paid for the time that we don't have
your site in guarantee status), we have to work many
time harder to achieve fewer results. Our guarantee
is just not structured for sites in your industry.

Why? Because we like to make money easily - why make it
hard on ourselves when we don't have to? We go for the
low-hanging fruit.

But... we do offer a non-guarantee package that
includes everything that we offer a regular client, but
without a guarantee. And the cost is only $500 down and
$100/mo."

Well blow me away I think I'll run out right now and give
a stranger $500 right now. It sounds like a steal of
a deal to me. How about you? Are you a low hanging fruit
ripe for him to pick?

Here was my reply:
"In other words your site is a fake. Something that
anyone can do for themselves if they just do a little
reading hardly worth $1800 or $500 for that matter.
Thank you for the enlightening emails and for your time."

(I'm glad to know its so easy)

Be careful to check out anyone that your going to hand
over large sums of money to. See where their site
ranks. Ask to see some sites they have worked on already
or customers they have sold products to and write to
the owners of those sites. Go to allwhois.com see how
long their site is there for.

Here is a site that can help you for a resonable price.
They are wonderful people who will give you straight
answers. They also have an informative ezine you can
join. They offer a large selection of different packages
to meet everyone's needs. From minimal exposure to full
exposure packages. Their prices range from 19.99 to 399.99.
They are currently offering 3 different packages on sale.
To learn more about their site submission services, please
check out the stwebfx website at

http://hop.clickbank.net/hop.cgi?silver1111/stwebfx

If you want to try some free services check out these:
Go to the links below and read, read, read.

http://www.sofer.com/research/ This page will show how many links go
to you and if your keyword is popular. Small page but interesting.

http://www.submit-it.com/subopt.htm Search Engine Optimization Tips

http://www.searchmechanics.com/ This site has an online
demo you can use to determine if your site is ready to
submit to the search engines. It also has some good
reading.

Tons of info and resources.

http://www.searchengineworld.com/

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/resources/index.html

Hope this helps you to get better rankings without spending
your life savings to do it.

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