Frequently Asked Questions

Search Engine Optimization


Why doesn´t my Web site rank very well in the search engines?

Having your website rank high in the search engines is a science and the rules for search engine optimization (SEO) are always changing. Here are some reasons why you may have poor rank:

  • Incorrect usage of the TITLE tag or no TITLE tag content.
  • Too many occurrences of the same word in a page (spamming)
  • Missing H1 and H2 heading tag content
  • Missing ALT tag content in your graphic links
  • No meaningful content in the first 250 characters on each page
  • Less than 200 words per page
  • Very few pages on your website
  • No links from other websites to your website (link popularity)
  • Using automated submission services
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Why are SEO services so expensive?

SEO is a highly-specialized craft requiring much research, forethought, skill, experience and can be extremely time-consuming to implement correctly. However, compared to offline and print advertising, SEO is quite inexpensive. The dollars spent on your online advertising campaign can lead to long term results and a higher ROI.

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What is SEO?

Search engine optimization or SEO is the methodology for preparing a web page to be found when a keyword or keyword phrase is entered for a search, therefore improving your web site's relevance and positioning and also improving the usability for human visitors. Search engine optimization is the process that will make your web site search engine friendly and is the first step in web site promotion.
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What is Local Marketing?

Local marketing refers to the techniques adopted to market a website, product or service to a niche group, a local market. Such marketing may be adopted so that higher success rates are achieved with localized search engine results of Google, Yahoo etc. in an age of personalization and a lot of global influx, wide range of similar products, local marketing has become the way ahead for many a businesses, both online and offline.
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What are the factors on which my site rankings depend?

Factors are many but the most important can be found below:

  • The competition for your key phrases
  • The overall competitiveness of your industry
  • Number of links pointing to your website
  • How long your site has been on the web
  • How much relevant content is provided on your site
  • The strength of your posts monthly maintenance plan
  • The design of your website
  • Finally, it is really important to monitor ranking and how the site is tweaked over time for SEO improvement
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What are the benefits of SEO?

  • SEO has several benefits which makes it indispensable for webmasters to pay special attention to.
  • Search engine optimization is required to gain more exposure on the Internet. This helps to drive quality traffic to your site.
  • If properly done, and effectively maintained, your site can eventually reach the top of the rankings for your keywords.
  • 90% of Internet buyers are turning to search engines to find the products they want.
  • When a consumer finds you through a search engine they are ready to buy, they are the ones who are already interested in buying the product you offer so all you need to do is be the one they find.
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What are Spiders and how do they crawl?

A spider, robot, or crawler is actually just a program that follows, or "crawls", links throughout the Internet, grabbing content from sites and adding it to search engine indexes. Unlike real life, as webmasters you should love to be crawled by such spiders so that your website is in the search results of these search engines.
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I understand SEO's importance, but can't I do it myself?

As with everything in life, yes, it can be done on your own. SEO activities require large amounts of time and study of new trends and technologies; consistent attention which most business owners and individuals do not have time to pay attention to, expertise and dedicated efforts for quality work.
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How soon until the search engines pick up the newly optimized site?

They could pick up the site within a few hours but usually no longer than 4-6 weeks.
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How much should I expect to pay for SEO Services?

The price is normally determined by the scope of effort needed to get the site optimized. Look at our packages page to have a greater understanding. Prices will vary according to the services you want us to employ. Some determining factors for optimization pricing are if the site is static, dynamic or if they have the ability to be edited by end-users.
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How long until I see results from search engine optimization efforts?

The amount of time required to see results of search engine optimization work depends on your site; the more competitive the keywords are the more time it would take. It could range anywhere from 30 days for existing sites in local or niche markets to 6 months for new websites in a competitive national/global market.
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How can I get spiders to crawl into my site?

Once you´ve realized the importance of these spiders, you would want them to come in again and again. Know that spiders can only follow links from one page to another and from one site to another. That is the primary reason why links to your site (inbound links) are so important. Links to your website from other websites will give the search engine spiders more food to chew on. The more times they find links to your site, the more times they will stop by and visit. Google especially relies on its´ spiders to create their vast index of listings.

Another way you can request a visit by a spider is by submitting your Web pages directly to a search engine via an xml site map.

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Does the way the site is coded affect the price?

If the site has bad navigational structures, or is badly coded than we would need to redo the work. We might have to write the code from scratch to have it optimized better and hence that would increase the price due to increased effort.
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Does it matter if the site is dynamic?

If the site is dynamic and you want us to convert it to html before optimization, then we will do that for you for a higher price. However, if you want to stick to the dynamic site than we will try to optimize the dynamic site but we do recommend you to convert your site to html by using mod rewrite features to convert dynamic sites to html before optimization. (mod rewrite is a php feature to convert .php and dynamic urls to static urls)
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Does every page of my website really need to be optimized?

The more the pages are optimized, the better it would be for an overall effective SEO result as every page of a website can be a potential entry point for visitors.
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Do you guarantee listings in search engines after the completion of SEO process?

Due to our experience in this field, today we can guarantee listings. We have years of experience with SEO techniques.

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Website Promotion


Why should I do Deep Links Submission?

When you want high traffic, more customers and much higher PR, deep links are essential. Deep linking is when you place hyperlinks on a website which point to specific pages or images within your website. Ask yourself, are your website´s internal pages linked the way they should be? Not just the home page..the internal pages? It is important that you lure customer leads to the right page on your website so that they can conveniently get what they are looking for. Also, deep linking will ensure that ALL, not some, of your web pages have high PR. This will increase the traffic to your website overall.
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Why do Link Building?

Linking matters! If you want online visibility then linking is the key to it. Link building takes time, there are many variables to consider and it needs strong online connections. We have an edge in all these. With the connections we have, we can have many good web sites pointing to yours in no time. This way you will be on your way up in the Link Popularity contest. And remember.. we don´t compromise on quality of links.
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Why choose AWPI for link building services?

As link building requires concentrated efforts, professionalism, expertise and good networking/communication, it is often best to outsource this. Given the job, we will perform link building for you. After understanding your business, keywords and competitors, we will research which sites you should be linked to. We will then connect you to thousands of quality websites that have relevant content. This will give significant boost to your rankings in remarkably short time.
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What is the benefit of Directory Submission Service?

If you are a webmaster and have slightest interest in your business than directory submission service should interest you a lot. Submission of your website to directories will lead to:

  • Increased targeted traffic
  • Being listed in directories will mean that you have more chances of people visiting you when you show up in their search results. People searching for a particular thing have already made up their mind to buy the product; hence you showing up first can just make you the lucky seller.
  • As hundreds of websites will be linking to your website, this will cause search engines to crawl and index your website more frequently.
  • Using varied link anchor text you can increase the possibility of your website being found under these keywords or phrases when they are typed into a search engine.
  • It can improve your search engine rankings

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What is social bookmarking?

Social Bookmarking is a tool that can help you get more traffic and a higher PR. It involves linking sites within the various blogs, message boards, forums on social networking websites, blog sites and content centric sites such as Digg. It is a great way to spread your marketing message to your target market.


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What is Link Building?

Link Building is the process of having links pointing TO your site FROM other sites on the web. This is a key element in getting top place on search engines.


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What is Directory Submission?

Directories are like internet yellow pages. They consist of listings (website links) that are categorized and usually include a title and description. People visit directories to search for sites relevant to what they are looking for. Listing your site in several directories can help you achieve better search engine ranking.


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What does it cost for link building?

Presently, we offer 3 packages: Bronze, Silver, Gold. Details of these can be found under SEO Packages

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Link Verified Program

Submitting your site does not guarantee that your site will get listed. The link verified report is a secondary report that shows exactly how many links were actually listed out of X number of submissions. Directories can take up to 30-days to reflect listings, longer in some instances however, this report is a good measurement tool for on-going link building activities.

Link Verified does not guarantee permanent links. Each directory has their own terms of service, some are permanent, some stay active for up to a year and others for only a few months. Link building is a continual process that should be reviewed periodically and subsequent submissions are advised.

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How soon can I expect to see results from a social bookmarking submission?

You can usually expect see links in major search engines within a week after submission.
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How many directories can I be listed on through you?

AWPI can submit your listings to 2000 directories depending on your package.
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How fast can my site/s be submitted in the directories?

Submissions will be done in the time period specified in the description. A slow submission process is recommended for larger submission packages; this will spread out your submissions over a period of 2-4 months and help you from getting sandboxed or banned from the search engines.
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How can I benefit from blog submission?

Search engines love fresh content and blogs are a great way to produce fresh, unique, search engine friendly content for your site. It will also attract high traffic and increase the sticky effect.
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How can AWPI help with my blog?

AWPI can help you in the blog process from start to finish. If you want, we can set up a great blog for you, just the way you want it. Or we can maintain it, update it, give you advice regarding it. AWPI specializes in blog submission and can ensure that your blog doesn´t go unnoticed.
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Do you use automated software/scripts for directory submission?

No. Our dedicated workers submit all websites manually to ensure coherency, accuracy and reliance.
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Do you submit all articles manually?

Yes we submit all articles manually as we understand the weaknesses of automated submission.
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Can you give a list of social bookmarking sites?

There are many but on top of the line are:

  • Digg
  • Blogthis!
  • Orkut
  • MySpace
  • Del.icio.us
  • Slashdot
  • Propeller
  • Technorati
  • Twitter
  • And many more!
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