hi,

I want to use a submit, tune up and google optimisation service for my website.But its a jungle out there in terms of choice and advice!!! I have a budget of £50, $100 a month to pay for this service.
What can I get and who do you recommend?
Many thanks if you can advise me...
Mat

Hey math,

here are some tips about google optimisation. I cant recommend any as i have never used any before im afraid.

Tips for Google Optimization

Hi Math,

Your best off doing this yourself, as it's not woth £50 a month for something that is quite easy to do.

One of the best ways, if you haven't already to get your site ranked high in the search engines, for your keywords and key phrases is to ensure your site has a good number of incoming links from quality sites.

Also make sure that your site reflects the keywords/key phrases that you are looking for - they should be in your title tag and in your initial paragraphs. Don't however over do it, or it will look like "keyword stuffing" and you will do more damage than good - just make sure they are there in a natural fashion.

Don't aim for the most popular keywords; you will have a much harder time achieving success. Do some analysis using a tool such as Keyword services for professional search engine optimization, and aim for keywords and key phrases for which you have a fighting chance.

Have a HTML linking directory on your site and gather links from related content sites that have a good Page Rank on that specific page your link will appear.

Google usually puts new sites at the bottom of the pile for a few months but there's nothing you can do about it, just keep getting the links.

Add links to all your pages at the bottom of the all pages

Add descriptions for all your images.

To see how a search engine bot views your pages go to Website Webmaster Search Engine Tools

Remember to gain the best Page Rank (which will entice other webmasters to link to you) add a link to each page on your home page (at the bottom of the page as a simple text link).

It does make you feel good to see your site on the first pages.

thats great advice thanks. What do you mean by add descriptions to images. I have some pages with 6 or 7 small images on? Im planning on getting links on existing sites that have very good ranking also. Will that help me climb up?
Its just some services online say they guarantee you top ten placings if you pay them, some in as little as 48hours!!!

The only advantage with these services is that they offer within 48 hours, you can still rank top 10. Do a search for "Mad Monkey Screensavers" and see for yourself. Also, hover your mouse over the images, you will see a tip appear relating to what that image represents or the link it points to.

Depending on what your using to create your web pages, I'll use Front Page as an example. Right click on the picture, go to Picture Properties, click on the General tab. From there, enter a text representation for your image. If your doing it in HTML, the code would be: <img border="0" src="..." alt="Description">

thanks for that. I am now going through the site adding text to every image. I have also put text links to all the other main pages at the bottom. I want to go live with my site in January. Should I submit now? and is there a place that does it all for you for free you know thats good???
Many thanks from mat.