Why Do I Need SEO? What Is It?

	Professional search engine marketing will help your site stand out from your competition and enable prospective buyers to locate your web site easily.

If you want more people to visit your web site, you must first have search-engine-friendly web pages. Picturesque will evaluate your site and make recommendations to help search engines properly list the site. (You do not have to change webmasters. We will work with the person or company currently maintaining your site.) Picturesque can then properly submit your site to all the major search engines, search services and other sites relevant to your site’s focus. Picturesque will then work with the search services, helping you obtain a high ranking. This is called positioning your site. High positioning is when someone searches for your site and finds you listed in the top of the results. These tasks, and more, are exactly what Picturesque does for you. Picture you site a promotional success!

What Kind of Services are Offered to Help Prepare and Market my Web Site?

	Examine your site's HTML and find any coding errors that search services don’t like. If you are just creating your site, we work with your webmaster to make certain they create a site that is search ready.
	Figure out what your crucial keywords/phrases really are and create titles and descriptions to match. Picturesque looks at searches that people actually used to determine which words and phrases are going to work.
	Implement techniques that improve your Search Engine rankings (e.g. Diffuse your keywords around your site).
	Tracking of your Search Engine Rankings and comparisons to competing sites.
	“Spying” on other people's pages and find out why they rank high (or low) and evaluate monthly how you compare.
	Find out what pages have linked to yours.
	Quickly submit your site's URL to all the appropriate search engines.
	Properly and correctly list your site in the major search indexes. (This is a lot more difficult and time consuming than standard search engine listings.)
	Find an appropriate domain name to use or multiple domains that all go to the same site.
	Manage your bids on Overture.com and other pay-per-click search engines. Obtain reciprocal links
	Manage other programs that help drive quality traffic to your site including e-mail newsletters and link to me programs.

In general, we handle the promotion of your web site to the rest of the internet world in a professional manner. If you receive anything regarding the promotion of your web site, forward it to us for an analysis. We will help you determine the value to your site’s needed promotion.

Picturesque adheres to a standard code of ethics developed by SEO and SEM professionals to properly respect our clients and represent their sites in such a manner as to provide quality web site traffic using techniques approved and encouraged by search services.

	Initial Site Report
	Monthly Search Optimization Services
	Search Engine Ranking Report

Make your site Picturesque to the Search Engines and Directories

Picture a successful web site through professional search engine optimization without the gimics. Good design comes from within the coding of the pages, not through trickery.

Often sites are built that look great, but under the surface, the code is “hostile” to search engines. Picturesque can review existing sites and produce a report of what should be changed for improved search listings.

What Picturesque Will Never Do

Here are a few things that a professional SEO service will never do.

	We will not... Submit your site instantly to thousands of search engines resulting in thousands of hits to your site overnight. There aren't thousands of search engines to submit to in the first place. It can also take weeks and months to just get listed making overnight, quality traffic impossible.
	We will not... Guarantee that you will be listed in all search engines. No one can guarantee this. Even paying for a listing does not always guarantee a listing.
	We will not... Guarantee instant listings on multiple search engines. Engines are taking anywhere from 5 days to 5 months to list sites, even with paid submissions. No one but the search engine company  decides how quickly your site will be listed, and they change their minds often. Read any so called guarantees carefully. There's always a loophole.

See what we will do in the article to the left.