Your business has built a lovely Web site which gives users the information they need and is easily navigable. So you can sit back and watch the Web site visitors – with their money – come to you, right? Not really. Every Web site has many competitors and it’s worthless if your clients don’t know where it is. This is why you need Internet marketing.

Excluding local brick and mortar stores, just about every company requires Internet marketing. It’s a new world and people are using new ways to locate stores, dentists, candy bars, and vacation spots. More and more people turn to the Internet for their information. A nationwide survey in 2009 by the Pew Research Center noted that 74% of adults in the U.S. use the Web.

“We have found that a solid Internet marketing plan is vital for our company,” observes Robin Bingeman from Cryoserver, an email archiving company. “If we didn’t have high-quality Internet marketing, we couldn’t reach a large volume of our potential customers. No company can flourish without it.”

Internet marketing is increasing in popularity. Even during the recession, PriceWaterhouseCoopers found that in 2009, American companies expended $22.7 Billion on Internet marketing. Over the past four years, the Web’s portion of advertising investments has increased from 8% to 17% of media advertising expenditures.

“Absent a good Internet Marketing plan, no company can succeed in today’s economy,” says Ali Husayni, of Master Google. “Nowadays no one can afford to lose a prospective customer. They need to find you when they’re seeking your service or product.”

Internet marketing has even proven effectual in nationwide politics. Throughout Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign, 3 million donors made 6.5 million online donations for a total of more than $500 million. His campaign also earned more than $10 million in one day, primarily using online donors, notes the Washington Post.

We can design a marketing strategy for your company that involves achieving the first page of Google and other search engines for your Web site’s keywords. We employ a variety of ways to boost the visitors to your site and enhance its Google rank, such as building backlinks to your site, making sure that you use the best keywords, and assisting with providing fresh content for your site.

“If you have an online business, you need a good strategy for promoting it or no one will visit,” observes Matthew Smillie, owner of Aruba Villa Vacation Rentals. “Since we started search engine optimization, our site has achieved page one for our keyword phrases.”

We also benefit from using up-to-date Web site visitor information to understand visitors and how they use the site. This permits us to tweak your marketing strategy as necessary. Internet marketing is actually a fairly inexpensive method for reaching possible customers, using only a small part of a conventional advertising budget.

With the Web, you can give visitors the information they need when they need it. This permits the consumer to make quicker buying decisions – on their own schedule.

UPDATE – Dec. 1: The $99 SEO package is now offered for free.

A better name for our Free/$99 SEO package is “Google Web site optimization package.” Let me explain. Google Search Engine Optimization (GSEO) has two main parts: Web site optimization and link-building.

Web site optimization refers to modifying the back-end code of your site, along with its text, to help Google and other search engines rank it better for your desired keywords.

Optimization is the foundation of GSEO, but only comprises 5-10% of the overall effort. In short it includes:

• Monitoring Google Webmaster Central for any possible site errors
• Identifying the most important keywords for each campaign
• Removing any code blocks in Google’s way
• Interlinking all the pages so Google spiders can easily find/index the content
• Updating the title tags of the site’s pages
• Updating the meta tags of the site’s pages (including the description tag)
• Updating the alt image tags
• Inserting H1, H2, … tags where appropriate
• Inserting <strong> tags where appropriate
• Adding text to the sites’ pages where appropriate
• Inserting the keywords within the text
• Adding an XML sitemap to the site
• Removing any black-hat SEO techniques used in the past

The above ensures that Google will be able to read, index and understand your site and what its keywords are. The optimization is the basis of GSEO and, without it, the other SEO techniques will not bear fruit.

On the other hand, the majority of GSEO is off-site: links pointing to your site from reputable, strong Web sites are what push your site above everyone else’s.

If someone has a good knowledge of GSEO, the optimization process doesn’t take more than a few hours. Nevertheless, if done incorrectly, Google might flag your site for SEO malpractice.

With the Free/$99 SEO package, we’re offering to perform the optimization – that would normally cost at least $1,000 – for a fraction of that price. We can afford to do that because the link we place on your newly optimized site is valuable and helps us and our paying clients rank better on Google without harming your site. So, our Free/$99 SEO package is mutually beneficial.

What We Don’t Offer

Free/$99 SEO package does not offer a top of Google ranking guarantee. The optimization of your site will improve your rankings but, since most of the Google SEO (GSEO) work is off-site, you may not see your site on the first page if your keyword is a competitive one.

For example, if your site is now on the 10th page of Google for your keyword, after a few weeks (when Google notices the updates to the site), your ranking may improve to page one, two, three or four – depending on how competitive your market is.

If you have the investment and you understand the benefits of being at the top of Google search results, we offer exclusive SEO services that will guarantee your site’s top of Google rankings for your site (if your site qualifies for such services). We even offer a 100% money-back guarantee.

UPDATE – Dec. 1: The $99 SEO package is now offered for free.

This $99 SEO service benefits you if:

- Your site did not qualify for our Free SEO package
- You did not want to sign up for our guaranteed SEO packages

For over a year, we have offered Free SEO to every site owner who met our basic requirements. But recently, we got so over whelmed with over 30 inquiries a day that our team was unable to provide the needed SEO service to everyone. So we decided to add an additional requirement: Free SEO only for sites that have a Google Page Rank (PR) of 2+.

Since we’ve made this change, we have to refuse Free SEO services to 20+ Web sites a day.  Until now, the only option for these sites was to sign up for our paid SEO packages. But not everyone can afford to invest in high-quality SEO services.

So, we came up with a solution for those who want to benefit from our SEO services, but neither have sufficient budget to invest nor have a site with a PR 2+: our $99 SEO package.

The $99 SEO service guarantees your site will be moving up on Google and other search engines. This will result in more traffic coming to your site.

The services you will receive with the $99 SEO package is valued at $1,000 and includes:

- Keywords Analysis – Identifying your most important keywords based on your feedback as well as your site’s content
- Complete Web Site Optimization – We will optimize your entire site for better Google placement. The optimization includes:

o   Monitoring your site on Google Webmaster Tools for any possible site errors and fixing them.
o   Removing (X)HTML code that blocks Google from freely indexing your site
o   Updating your site’s title tag, description tag, image tags, etc.|
o   Adding an XML site-map to your site
o   Setting up your Google Analytics so you can monitor the traffic to your site

- Sending you weekly PDF reports showing where your site is located on Google, Yahoo! and Bing

We’re working on training additional staff so we can provide this service to everyone interested. Please give us your valuable feedback and ask us if you have any questions.

Update on Nov. 2, 2011 by Ali Husayni.

One: Trusting Your Web Designer

92% of Web designers claim they are SEO experts while in fact they only know bits and pieces about SEO. They read a few articles, make some changes to the site’s meta tags and claim your site is ready for Google. A few months later, you are frustrated at the lack of progress and what your Web designer tells you is that you have to wait as it takes longer for Google to rank your site.

The truth is your site may be “optimized” properly, but optimization is only 10% of the overall SEO work. The rest is hard-core link-building efforts to make your site popular on the Web.

Two: Not Looking At the Rankings of the SEO Company

If an SEO company knows its game, it ranks very well on Google for their important keywords. These keywords vary for different SEO companies; nevertheless they must have a strong organic presence on Google. If they don’t, you basically trust a cow-boy to fix your airplane.

Some important keywords for SEO companies include: SEO, Google SEO, SEO Company, SEO Services, Free SEO, Cheap SEO, Google Ranking, Top of Google, etc. (Master Google ranks on the first page for Top of Google, first page of Google, Google SEO guaranteed and many other keywords.)

Three: Not Looking At the Proven Results

Each SEO company should be able to show you at least ten local and international clients they have helped rank at the top of Google with the permission for you to contact them. The keywords they show you must be the most competitive for such clients (and not merely long-tailed keywords).

Four: Not Contacting the References

It is essential for you to pick up the phone and call a few of those clients listed as successful by the SEO company. You should ask them about the SEO company’s timeliness, its effectiveness, its ethics, and anything else you can think of. Conduct your interview carefully and then trust your hard-earned money to the SEO company.

Five: Focusing on Yahoo!, Bing

Yahoo! and Bing have a very long way to go to be able to compete with Google. Google has taken over 67% of the global search market. You could rank #1 on both Yahoo! and Bing and still lose a big chunk of your business to your rivals that rank well on Google.

From the SEO point of view, ranking on Yahoo! and Bing is much easier than ranking on Google. But those that rank well with Google also rank well with the other rivals.

When the SEO company shows you their successful SEO campaigns, be watchful. If they show you results from Bing and Yahoo!, then ask them what they have done in respect to Google. Tell them you care less for the other engines and you want your site to be at the top of Google.

Six: Not Having Guarantees in Place

If you sign up with an SEO company which does not guarantee your money back in case they fail, you’re wasting your investment. No one can guarantee your site’s ranking on Google, but good SEO companies guarantee to refund all or a portion of your money if your site is not ranked on Google within a specific time-frame.

An average time-frame for an SEO campaign to be fully successful is about six months. Low competition keywords can be placed at the top of Google within three months and international keywords could take up to one year to have the best results.

Seven: Paying in Advance

Never pay in advance for more than one month of work. Paying for a full-year of SEO work discourages the SEO company to put extra efforts in the beginning of the campaign. Therefore, your results will come later in the year. As a result you’ll lose valuable business in the first few months.

The best thing to do is to pay your SEO company on a monthly basis.

Eight: Not Seeing Ranking Reports

Most SEO companies have tools that generate automatic ranking reports. These reports show where your site is listed on Google for your specific keywords.

We provide weekly ranking reports, but you can ask your SEO company to send them to you daily, biweekly, or monthly.

Nine: Not Requesting  Google Analytics

Analytics is a free tool provided by Google, which monitors your site’s traffic, its origin, the keywords visitors used to find your site and many other pieces of information. Google Analytics helps you track the traffic improvements to your site as well as monitoring the success of the SEO company you are working with.

Ten: Not Asking for Solid Link-Building Tactics

The most important Google SEO technique is link-building. Although Google prefers that your links are generated naturally, but in today’s world very few successful sites are blessed with such links. For the rest, a successful organic link-building campaign is needed to boost your site’s popularity and thus your ranking on Google.

Ask your SEO company what they do to increase your link popularity. They may not share all the details as that could jeopardize their edge over their competition, but they can give you general ideas about what they do.

The SEO company should have at least two or three different ways of getting natural links for your site. You can read my post on some of these techniques.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and questions.

We are experiencing an enormous surge in business and have a record number of clients for our SEO services.

“We have been overwhelmed by the volume of new clients,” observes Ali Husayni of Master Google. “Our search engine optimization methods have gotten such good results that more and more companies are taking notice. Every day we are getting inquiries from new clients.”

To prevent compromising service quality, our staff asks new clients to wait a month before we can begin SEO efforts. We take clients on a first-come, first-served basis. “If you’re thinking about our SEO services, the sooner you sign up, the sooner we can start improving your Google ranking,” says Husayni.

Husayni attributes the company’s explosive growth to a variety of factors. “Our clients experience terrific results and recommend us to friends and colleagues. We also enjoy a Top of Google ranking for vital keywords.”

“Ali Husayni and his team at Master Google have proven their worth to us,” says Dr. Winburn of www.mavenlive.com. “Because of Ali and his team we now have first page placement for almost all our keywords and this has resulted in a 5 fold increase in traffic to our site.”

Our well-known “Top of Google” package guarantees (in most cases) that we’ll get your site within the top five Web sites on Google’s 1^st page for your company’s main keyword. If we can’t get the site among the top five in a few months, we will refund 100% of our fees.

We are also famous for the free SEO services we give small businesses.

“We have improved rankings on Google and other search engines for more than 700 Web sites – employing a 100% free SEO service (valued at $1,000). Eligibility only necessitates a site with a page rank of 2 and your agreement to place our link on your site,” explains Husayni.