Search Engine FAQs

General FAQs

1. What exactly does Search Engine Patrol do?
2. Are all web sites eligible to order your services?
3. There are companies who will submit my site to 2,500+ search engines. Why do you submit sites to only 30 search engines and directories?
4. Which search engines do you submit sites to?
5. Why do I need to hire you to do this—can't I do this myself?
6. Will you upload the files that you create to my domain? Or, will I have to do it myself?
7. How much time is generally required before I start seeing an increase in traffic?

Search Engine Ranking FAQs

1. What constitutes a top 30 ranking? By a top 30 ranking, do you mean a top 30 position for one keyword for all the search engines? Or, do you mean a top 30 position for one keyword for one search engine?
2. Can you guarantee that you will always put me in the Top 10?
3. What if some of my pages already receive high rankings? Will you change them?
4. How many top 30 positions do your customers tend to obtain?
5. Suppose during a month I have a top 30 position for a few days and then I lose that position. Would this be considered a top 30 ranking?

Key word/phrases FAQs

1. How do I know which keywords/phrases to select? Do you do that or do I?
2. How do you select the keywords for my site? What if the keywords are really competitive, like "laser printers?"

Optimizing approaches for pages and web sites FAQs

1. Do you optimize my existing domain for the search engines? Or do you optimize a different domain which you own?
2. What is the process that you follow when you are optimizing sites? Do you create what the search engine placement industry calls "doorway pages"?
3. Some of your competitors use something called page cloaking. What exactly is page cloaking? Do you use it too?

Maintenance/follow-up report FAQs

1. After the optimization process is over, do you provide reports showing the position of my site in the search engines?
2. What if I don't wish to sign up for your maintenance plan? Will I lose all the positions that you have attained for me?
3. Will the search engine positions that you attain for me be permanent? Do you guarantee a length of time for which my site will have the top positions?

Points of Difference FAQs

1. Can you provide me with some references whom I can contact?
2. How much additional traffic will my web site receive if I hire you?
3. I know other companies which also offer search engine positioning services. How is your organization different?