| Price
Comparison
You may be interested in how our prices compare
with other alternatives that you may have
encountered. The comparison is a bit complex,
because there does not appear to be anyone
else who provides exactly the same services.
At the low end of the spectrum are submission
services. Some of these are actually free;
they will announce your site to search engines every
now and then for free. If you're looking for
the best you can do for free, don't use these free
services because they may not work very well and
they are difficult or impossible to verify.
Instead, for the top search engines, pick a handful
and announce your site yourself once a month.
Since the top engines account for a lot of the total
traffic, if your site is well designed to get good
position this will do the job for you.
There are submission services that don't give any
advice on the content of the site, and simply submit
for you. Some are inexpensive, some are quite
expensive. Submission without considering the
site itself, and working with the text and keywords,
is not very effective and can be put in the same
category as the free search engines listed above.
Beware anyone who gives a guarantee of a specific
position. It is very difficult or impossible
to deliver on such a guarantee--so if they fail, as
they are likely to do, what will happen then?
Will you be able to get the refund you are
promised? Or will you get a song and dance and
wind up paying for something less than was
guaranteed to you?
Finally, there are reputable companies that do
this work. The good ones will want to work
with you on the selection of terms that you go
after, to be sure you are using terms that are
actually used in search engines. They will
want to modify the narrative on your site, and they
may even want to make other modifications. For
these services, a typical price is $150 per page per
month. That price is comparable to our Bronze
service option, but does not include hosting of the
site. Our Silver and Gold offerings, that
include more pages, are priced far below $150 per
page.
We can offer lower prices for several
reasons. We are aggressive testers and users
of the latest automated tools that reduce the
sometimes very large amount of time-intensive work
that is required. In addition, everyone
involved in our efforts is working at home as a
contractor, with no office rent to pay, no
secretary, no pay for time spent at the water
cooler, and no pay for time spent when not
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