Search Engine Optimization
A new website is useless if nobody can find it. Having a website built and coded properly is of utmost importance if you expect folks to find your website. If your site cannot be found in organic searches, then your site will never receive any traffic unless you pay for it. Organic traffic means that folks can find your website without you having to pay for them to find it ... it's free website traffic. A perfect example is ... let's say you opened up a storefront in New York City. New York City is a vastly crowded town and a large town. How are folks in New York City going to know that you've opened up a new store? Well, you advertise in shop papers, or billboards or bus stops, etc. If folks don't know you're open for business and where you are located, then you will not receive any traffic to your store. The same principle applies to a new website. You must have your website built properly, meaning it is coded cleanly so it's appealing to search engines, and then have it submitted to the search engines ... also in the proper manner.
Can you just submit your website to the search engines yourself? Yes, you can as long as your website is formatted correctly so that the search engines will give you a high ranking ... called Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Additionally, if you do not have webmaster status, like we do, it could take you forever to get listed with the search engines. Making changes to your site's status with the search engines takes loads of time and it's important to do it right the first time. For these reasons alone, and there are more, you should hire an experienced professional to apply proper SEO techniques to your website. If you want free, organic traffic to visit your website, you need Search Engine Optimization!
Search Engine Optimization Details
After your website has been submitted to the major Search Engines ... inclusion in the search engines can take anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months, over which we, nor anybody else, have any control as search engines are a 3rd party provider. After your website is crawled and indexed into the major search engines, it must then receive a ranking. Ranking can take a year or more to achieve. Again, we cannot control what the 3rd party providers, such as Google, distribute to your website. But, we can provide you with the culmination of all our vast knowledge in the act of optimizing your website for inclusion, and eventual ranking, in the major search engines.
Examples of Our SEO Results
North Florida Regional Chamber of Commerce
Search Terms: north central florida chamber
Page 1, Position 1 ... Google [March 11, 2026]
Bradford County TDC
Search Terms: where to eat in starke
Page 1, Position 1 ... Google [March 11, 2026]
First Step Counseling Services
Search Terms: counseling services sioux falls
Page 1, Position 5 ... Google [March 11, 2026]
Search Engine Definitions
Exactly what is a search engine?
Basically, a search engine is a web application/script that searches for sites based on the words that you designate as search terms and serves them up to you on the screen. Search engines look through their own databases of information, which they've gathered when crawling your site, in order to find your search terms.
Why are search engines important for websites?
Search engines help people discover websites and online content. When a website is properly optimized, it can appear higher in search results, making it easier for potential visitors or customers to find it.
Are Search Engines and Directories The Same Thing?
Search engines and directories are not the same thing; although the term "search engine" often is used interchangeably. Search engines automatically create website listings by using spiders that crawl your website pages, index the information contained within those pages, and optimally follow your site's links to other pages. Spiders return to already-crawled sites on a pretty regular basis in order to check for updates or changes, and everything that these spiders find goes into that search engine database.
What is a Spider / Crawler?
A spider / crawler is an automated program/script that visits your website and categorizes the information contained in the site and determines your sites ranking. Unfortunately, each spider has it's own personal agenda as it indexes your site and a page that ranks well on one search engine may not rank as well on another.
How Do Search Engines Work?
Search engines are not simple. They include incredibly detailed processes and methodologies. All search engines go by this basic process when conducting search processes, but because there are differences in search engines, there are different results depending on which engine you use. The searcher types a query into a search engine and the engine quickly sorts through literally millions of pages in its database to find matches. The search engine's results are ranked in order of relevancy.
What are the major search engine directories?
The major directories are Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, Yandex, Ecosia, Startpage, etc. There are many, many search engines on the web.
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