Price Comparison
By Dave Roberts
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 engaged.