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What does Search Engine Optimization Do?

Search engine optimization provides you with the search engine presence necessary to get qualified visitors to your web site. Getting visitors to your web site looking for the products and services you are offering is the goal of search engine optimization. Search engine optimization is the process of making your web site relevant for keyword and keyphrase searches. Search engine optimization brings visitors to your site, looking for what you sell this will make your web site worth the investment.

Who is Rank1st Technology Services?

Our search engine consulting professionals work with you, your webmaster, your developers, and your Internet Service Provider to insure that your site is search engine ready, optimized to its fullest potential, submitted to search engines and receives high ranking listings for key words and phrases your site is relevant for. Search engine optimization takes time, effort and expertise; true search optimization requires web site updates, link building, and building of quality Internet presence. Rank1st search engine consultants offer custom search engine optimization projects that last a full year, all of that time building, managing and monitoring your search engine performance, insuring that you not only attain, but maintain top search position.

At Rank1st, we are strong believers in providing you with strongest value possible for the services that you purchase. Our goals are designed to give you the best values possible:

• Acheive the best search engine rankings possible with keywords and keyphrases related and relevant to products and services offered on your web site.
  
• Create good search engine position that can be maintained long term.
  
• Provide you with keywords and phrases that relate specifically to your web site, suggested by us, modified and approved by you.
  
• Maintain the look, feel and content of your web site that you worked so hard and spent so much to develop.
  
• Advise you on changes or updates that help you attract and engage customers and alternatives on how to implement those changes
  
• Inform you about the status of your project, what we are doing and how well we are doing it.
  
• Give you a single point of contact for managing your project and search engine marketing, offering you not only search engine placement but directory and pay-per-click management services as well.
  
• Insure that your web site functions well, with no errors, no dead links and no lost visitors.

As part of our search engine optimization project services we perform a wide array of the tasks described here. A more complete description of the lsearch engine marketingl services offered can be found reviewing other parts of our web site. We invite anyone who has questions to contact us with your search optimization questions and to find out how we can help you build Internet presence.

Placement Consultation

• Our consultation services start when we put together a proposal for the optimization of your web site. We call you, review your site and develop a plan for helping you place well in the search engine rankings.
  
• We also work with you in person, via e-mail or a telephone consultation to learn about your business, your customers, your goals and your competitors finding out what will be necessary to make your project a success in your eyes.
  
• Expect monthly communication from us advising you about the status of your project, your web site ranking reports and next steps that we are undertaking
  
• Communication through your dedicated project area on our web site
  
• Advice on changes, tactics and methods of getting more visitors to your site

Background Project Research

• Research of keywords and keyphrases related to your site on various search engines, directories and search engine strategies used by your competitor sites
  
• Research of directory services and specialized search engines visited by your clients and applicable to your industry
  
• Identification of directory services in your local region to insure you gain local customers
  
• Baseline search engine ranking reports for your site which identify your search existing search engine ranking

Personal Project Area

• A personal project area that allows you to review past and present monthly reports, project notes, access web site tracking statistics and communicate with your SEO professional

Site Optimization and Modification

• Contacting and working with you, your programmer or your Internet Service Provider to download and backup a copy of your web site
  
• A web development professional working on your web site, trained in programming best practices used by IT departments everywhere
  
• Review and modify of your web site implementing changes that make your site relevant, posting of changes to your web site in your personal project area for your review
  
• Creation of all necessary meta-tags, updated content and revisions
  
• Installation of SiteStats™ tracking code on your site to monitor visitors to your site and their behavior
  
• Modification of your site to prevent spambots and automated programs from picking up your e-mail addresses
  
• Posting of your updated web site on your ISP's web server
  
• Ongoing updates to fine-tune search engine position and rankings

Search Engine Submission

• Submission of your web site to all meta-crawler search engines (like Google) and directories (like Open Directory Project)
  
• Submission of your site to lesser search engines and build links from quality sites to increase your link popularity (don't worry we take care of the spam e-mail)
  
• Submission of your site to various local, regional and specialty directories or search engine services to help you build community presence
  
• Building of link presence with links to your site on sites, directories and portals that are consistent with your corporate identify and value system
  
• Creation of all descriptions for pay-per-click advertising and directory entries
  
• Listing of your site in the Search City Directory and other Rank1st Internet Properties
  
• Submission of your site to paid submission sites and ongoing management of those sites

Search Engine Ranking Monitoring and Management

• A full year of SiteStats™, our web site analysis and statistics analyzer allowing you to monitor visitors, where they came from and what they viewed on your web site.
  
• Ongoing management of pay-per-click and directory submissions
  
• Ongoing search engine ranking reports posted monthly to your personal project area



• Full documentation of your directory and search engine listings, pay-per-click advertising so that you can manage it on your own if you wish

• Ongoing and affordable search engine optimization services with our yearly maintenance program

Rank1st Technology Services • 30762 Tern Avenue • Shafer, MN • 55074