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DIRECT HITS provides website optimization & SEO / search engine optimization services and tips to improve search engine rankings, increase hits & visits from all traffic sources and enhance website appearance and usability so that visitors can find what they are looking for.

SEO Pricing – How Much Should I Pay for SEO Services?

When searching for SEO service prices, you’ll notice two things: That SEO fees vary wildly, and that often they are not listed at all, requiring you to request a price quote. SEO takes work and you should expect to pay a reasonable fee for the service, but be cautious when choosing an SEO whose prices are suspiciously low or unjustifiably high.

4 Things SEO Can’t Do For You

Even a small amount of effort in these four areas will increase your traffic and the success of your onsite SEO. Period. If you want the car to go you have to put some gas in the tank. Remember what SEO can’t do for you, and then reap the rewards of what it CAN.

How Do I Get Listed In The Google Shopping Results?

Google Products Search or Google Shopping is a price and product comparison tool allowing searchers to view similar items from many vendors in one place. It was originally launched as Froogle. There are no fees for listing your items here, and Google isn’t involved in the sales process.

How Does Google Determine How Old A Website Is?

Site age IS an SEO factor. Having a domain that’s been up and running for 10 years is a definite boon to rankings. Though not enough to cancel out the big two – lots of good content and quality back links. Without those, the age of your domain is insignificant.

SEO – A Lifestyle Change For Your Website

You need to keep doing it – SEO is never done. Search engine algorithms change, new competitors show up, your business changes. If you have a website, SEO needs to be a priority – always. It needs to be constantly worked at and monitored, or your website will get out of shape.

Can You Make My Site #1 On Google?

All it takes to make things difficult for any industry is a few snake oil salesman to show up and start making grandiose claims.

There Is No Right Number In SEO

Don’t be duped into thinking SEO is a scientific or mathematical equation you can solve. There’s no right number. The answer is unique, useful content and high quality, relevant links.

Is A Site Map For Users Still Important To Search Engines?

Adding an HTML sitemap for users, with a link on the home page will get that content indexed fast. Search engine bots are not perfect. Anything you can do to help them crawl your site more efficiently is worth the time. And yes, let’s not forget your users: Unlike XML sitemaps, HTML sitemap pages can be seen and used by your visitors too.

SEOs Vs. Web Designers

Do SEOs respect web design? Do web designers ignore SEO? This debate has been going on forever. It’s not particularly surprising, given that we’re always being forced to work together. But the problems develop from just that – NOT working together.

Google And Automated Content

Article marketing automation plug-ins enable you to set up a blog that you don’t spend any time on at all – ever. The plugin pulls and publishes articles from a specified category of an article marketing hub to the blog.The whole chain of content and distribution is automated. Bots creating content for bots to impress other bots! What’s the point? SEO.

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