New Websites: Trying To Get Top SEO Rankings?

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OK … this is a blog devoted to everything SEO, website building and online marketing information and how-tos. If you’re not yet aware, I do gear a lot of the information here to newbies. I also have a real desire to protect newbies from the c**p and baloney that many unethical people and companies are promoting. These people know darn well that a newbie can be very very gullible. Of course! There is so much to learn once you have registered your domain name and are ready to start getting your new website up and running online.

It is overwhelming, as far as all the different things you must learn to become successful online. At least it was for me in the beginning (and sometimes I am still overwhelmed with the next learning curve that I must tackle … as I think most all of us are, if we are honest amongst ourselves).

I know for a fact that the newbie website owner can be very vulnerable to being ripped off, not only in what they may pay for website design services; what they may pay for SEO consultations or actual optimization of their website; what they pay for software that they don’t need, or will never be able to master how to use … yes, you know … the list can go on and on.

I know this as fact because I personally am told incredible stories almost every day of wasted money for horrible website design; wasted money for SEO work that was performed by people lacking the proper education and knowledge of the craft; wasted money on all sorts of other “deals” that a newbie gets sucked into because … because they are not knowledgeable enough to know what is good from bad; effective vs. not effective, etc.

Let Me Educate You About A Worthless SEO Rankings Service

In an effort to continue to bring to light what I perceive as plain and simple SCAMS, but what I know to a newbie website owner can sound like a very affordable and pretty great service … I want you to read the following abbreviated example of a REAL “SEO services” website’s sales pitch that very clearly explains a WORTHLESS service.

But how would a newbie (maybe you?) really know it’s worthless? You probably wouldn’t, because your SEO learning curve normally isn’t to the point where you can spot the red flags sticking up all over the place on this rip-off “SEO service for guaranteed top rankings”.

What have I told you to do when you see any SEO service stating they will GUARANTEE you top rankings?? Hmmmm? Yes! Run, run, run the other way with your money!!

OK … let’s read the first part:

After reviewing your site’s coding, we submit your website to over 300 search engines and will continue to submit it every month. You can purchase our six or twelve month plan.

Red flag #1!  There is absolutely NO use nor benefit to submit to 300 search engines! Nor to continue to do so on a monthly basis! Basically, if Google, Yahoo and MSN find and then begin to index your new website, well you’re good to go with all the other small, smaller and obscure search engines! Don’t get suckered into the value of being submitted to “300 search engines”.

News flash! For FREE you can help get your site indexed (visited by the spiders) in Google, Yahoo! and MSN quite quickly by submitting an XML site map. Read how to utilize an XML file to help your new website get spidered faster. And remember … you can do this for FREE!

We basically submit all the “text” on your website and your keywords come from there.

Red flag #2!  OK! Everybody STOP HERE for a moment! I have no clue as to how, as a professional SEO consultant, I could “submit all the text on your website” to get a client’s new website ranked. And I do not understand the gibberish that further states “and your keywords come from there”. Say what?

I do know as part of the very necessary optimization I must perform for every client’s website that I work on, that the Title tag, and Description and Keyword Meta tags must be properly optimized using the appropriate keywords I’ve uncovered during my research. But to just “submit text” and my clients sites will get ranked … WOW! This is a new flim-flam on me.

Let’s continue:

Although it greatly depends on your site, most clients can expect to see anywhere from 5-15 keywords showing up within the first one - three pages of Yahoo and Google within 30 business days.

Pleeeeeease … more bull-pucky! (Notice how they’ve covered their behinds with the wording in this statement in case you don’t get the rankings they’re trying to promise you?)

You can also suggest keywords to be submitted. You will be asked for keywords you want to include after your order is completed.

This is worthless gibberish.

You will continue to have Google and Yahoo rankings for as long as you are a client.

Yet another red flag!  So, as long as you keep paying for their “service”, you will be able to rest easy that your website will have rankings??  Umm … what about optimization of all the tags; what about having high quality keyword focused unique content (and the more of it on your site, the better!); what about internal linking; what about in-pointing links … and all the other REAL things  that contribute to solid, on-going search engine rankings?

EGADS! These people sure have a song-and-dance going!

Sure you’ll “have Google and Yahoo rankings”!  Are they talking about holding top-ten rankings, or finding yourself in position #1,235? Come on! Normally, most new websites all have some kind of search engine ranking if they are coded properly so they can be crawled by the spiders. But whether the ranking position is #1 or #1,235 … well it is still technically a “ranking”, isn’t it? Uh-huh …

I am so sickened by companies like this who offer worthless SEO rankings services and truly take advantage of people with new websites who aren’t yet knowlegeable of what can and can’t be achieved via ethical SEO services. I hope this little rant of mine has truly educated you and possibly has helped you keep more money in your pocket.

Please don’t hesitate to take advantage of my complimentary, no strings attached free SEO phone consultation. I’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have and will try to steer you in the right direction for whatever services or help you may need.