Website Promotion by Illinois Web Design

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM)



Do you have a website that nobody knows about?

Does it not show in the search engines for your desired searches?

Does your visitor counter appear to be stuck?

You've just found the reality of the internet - with literally billions of webpages out here in cyberspace it is very difficult to get noticed.  Over the past few years we have been researching search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) in order to promote websites to the top of the major search engines like Google, MSN and Yahoo.

          Some of the organic search results for sites we have done promotion for includes (as of Feb 17, 2005)...
Search Phrase
Competing Web Pages at Google
Ranking at MSN
Ranking at Yahoo
Ranking at Google
Illinois web design
10 million
1
2
9
Jacksonville Illinois
7 million
3, 6 & 8
18, 55 & 107
11, 332 & 388
christian music artist
7 million
2
7
12
christian music cd
6.5 million
23
23
33

We can help you to get noticed on the internet,  the cost of this work varies depending on the difficulty of the search terms and the current state of your website so please contact us for a free estimate.  It is possible to take an older established website and tweak it to get good results in a couple months but it can take from 6 months to a year to fully see the results of our efforts.  We do not use any "blackhat" techniques like hidden text, mirror sites, cloaking, doorway sites or anything that is frowned upon by the search engines and could possibly get your website banned.

What exactly do we do to get your website to rank higher in the search engines?  We have put together a tutorial to allow you to see what is involved.  First we'll talk about choosing the right keyword phrases to target and include some useful links to tools to help decide which keywords to use.  Next we'll discuss ways to include those keywords in your webpages,  also known as search engine optimization or SEO.  Finally we'll discuss search engine marketing or SEM,  which basically involves getting other websites to link to your website.

You also have an option of paying for advertising on the various search engines and websites which can be very expensive in the long run.  We've put together a page that discusses the pros and cons of pay per click advertising

Choosing Keyword Phrases
Optimizing for Search Engines
Marketing to the Search Engines
Pay Per Click Advertising

You can contact Richard Tremain and Illinois Web Design here for a free estimate, more information, or to inquire about a free personal consultation.

Serving Springfield and Jacksonville in West Central Illinois and all of LincolnLand as well as the world.