Comparing one SEO company to another is not an easy task for businesses looking to take on a new SEO company as a SEO vendor.

There are so many factors that go into the decision making process to decide which SEO company you will end up going with to support you to get on the 1st page of Google.

SEO company comparison

It goes without saying that a good SEO company should always practice what they preach. The great thing about SEO is that your work is always visible and there are many great tools out there on the Internet that can rank the work that has been done by a SEO company.

One great tool is the Website Grader – http://websitegrader.com

We have used this superb tool to cross analyse several of the SEO companies who are ranking on the 1st page of Google.com.sg for the keyword SEO.

SEO company ranking results

Here are the comparison SEO results so you can see for yourself. The full reports for each site are also available on the Website Grader which is an independent assessment tool for SEO.

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The website graders algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data , website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.

	The website www.singaporeseo.com ranks 1,109,171 of the 2,511,768 websites that have been ranked so far. http://websitegrader.com/site/www.singaporeseo.com
	The website www.xirlynx.com ranks 866,942 of the 2,511,768 websites that have been ranked so far.
	The website www.larrylim.net ranks 208,725 of the 2,511,768 websites that have been ranked so far. http://websitegrader.com/site/www.larrylim.net
	The website www.ezbusinessneeds.com ranks 181,888 of the 2,511,768 websites that have been ranked so far. http://websitegrader.com/site/www.ezbusinessneeds.com
	The website www.optimalonlinemarketing.com ranks 82,002 of the 2,511,768 websites that have been ranked so far. htttp://websitegrader.com/site/www.optimalonlinemarketing.com
	The website www.internet-empire.com ranks 18,380 of the 2,511,768 websites that have been ranked so far. http://websitegrader.com/site/www.internet-empire.com
	The website www.seo-magic-webs.com RANKS 4,452 of the 2,501,420 websites that have been ranked so far. http://websitegrader.com/site/www.seo-magic-webs.com Magic Webs

At new client meetings we are always asked the major question – so how long will I stay at the top.

Google ranking is based on so many factors. The full Google algorithm is a closely held secret but over time much of it has been worked out by SEO consultants.

At the end of the day Google wants to display the best web page results for the search term used. The job of your website is always to provide the best results. To do this you have to be finicky about how you create content on your site. Every time you make a change to your site, structurally or content wise, your Google ranking will be affected for the better or worse.

Learn more about some of the SEO basics here : SEO Singapore

The key things that affect how long you can stay at the top are these:

• Competitiveness of keyword – how many other people are wanting to rank for that keyword
• How often you update your site with UNIQUE, QUALITY content

The first point you cannot control but the second one you can. You should have content going onto your site weekly. This keeps Google happy andwill often keep you ahead of your competitors.

The best way to do weekly content is to outsource this time consuming task to a company that specialises in SEO content.

Our SEO.SIMPLE. service provides ranking plus content – learn more here : SEO.SIMPLE. We not only create unique SEO focused content we also load it onto your site so it appears weekly. Our in-house team of professional writers do all the work for you. They are skilled at working across many diverse industries to create professional SEO content.

There are hundreds of points that go into the SEO mix to create a top SEO ranking result. Out SEO service helps you fix up all the issues stopping you ranking as well as add all the components that allow you to rank better.

We are proponents of eating our own broth. We have a 99.5% result for our website SEO quality. Darn we lost 1/2 a point! We never want to put our competitors down because everyone works so hard to create the results they do, and yet pop some of our closest competitors websites into the website grader based here http://websitegrader.com and you will see that we beat them all.

As well as being in the top 3 websites for SEO in Singapore and in the top 60 in the world for SEO in Google, our SEO service is very unique because it uses a unique three point focus to get powerful and long-lasting SEO results.

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We combine three SEO elements to create a rock solid SEO result for your site.

We used to only use two SEO elements until we found a way to do the third in a simple, easy and cheap way. So our SEO services now start from as little as SGD $1488 for 6 months SEO service.

The three important SEO components that need to be in place to create rock solid SEO are :

1. Content – regularly applied to your site over a long period of time
2. Back links coming back from other relevant websites
3. “Google friendly” website – SEO optimised web platform

When you combine all three of elements together, your SEO results are faster, stronger and higher. Unlike when you use some SEO techniques to get ranking such as blog comment postings, which are subject to Google’s changing ranking algorithm, our three point SEO service focus delivers a rock solid SEO foundation based on real content which Google always loves.

This is how we can achieve these type of SEO results for our clients :

Do watch our SEO Service video for SEO.SIMPLE. to learn more about our three point approach so that you can fully understand the key benefits that our SEO service has over others.

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We usually get a call from prospective clients either when their website has just been finished, just about to be finished, or has been finished for a while but there is no traffic. In all three of these cases it is a bit like calling in the engineer to help you with the construction of a building after it has been built and then saying to them – “we did use the right steel didn’t we – tell us we used the right steel!”

As silly as it may sound with the engineer example, calling us in at the end of a web project is just as silly unless you have a lot of extra money to spend and you don’t know what to do with it!

Clients who try to reverse engineer traffic so often say to us that they are not getting the traffic they want or the results they need. And yet they expect miracles to occur when they have made decisions presented to them by their web designers that are SEO unfriendly. This especially happens all the time with shopping carts which are are often some of the most SEO unfriendly sites on the web. Shopping carts and ecommerce are an intricate technical subject. Very few companies know how to create a top performing ecommerce site that is SEO and client friendly.

SEO Consultant – make them your 1st call

Bringing your SEO consultant in at the beginning before you get your site developed is just plain smart. Many SEO consultants are very expensive, and if they are worth their salt they should be. SEO is not just about tweaking a few meta tags and throwing some keywords onto a page – it is a technical blend of server platform, software, keyword balancing, content and user experience.

We only do pure SEO consultancy for big projects. The rest of the time we offer our consultancy for free when you purchase our SEO.SIMPLE. services. We will liaise with your hosting company and recommend the best server host (don’t use a Windows host unless you really have to – big SEO tip), we will  liaise and support your developer in the best choice of structure to use, especially if a CMS (content management system) is being selected and we will support you to request specific SEO elements to be built in so they do not cost you anything later on to fix. When you become one of our clients we look after you through the whole site development cycle so that you get the best end result possible.

Web developers are not SEO consultants

If your web developer tells you that they are SEO experts and all their sites are SEO friendly then ask your web developer this simple question – what is a canonical error?

If you get a glazed look or a long pause then watch out! The reason why I say ask this question is because this is the No1 mistake most web developers make (99% of them to be exact). This creates one of the biggest SEO issues that we need to fix.

We see this issue as shown below a lot. A client will rank very high in Yahoo! but will not rank well in Google. Canonical, server speed and duplicate content issues are usually the cause – all of them created by your web designer.

All we do is SEO. We provide rock solid SEO without any hype. We focus on what we do best which is to get our clients on the first page of Google.

When we get it right we get great comments from our clients such as this one –

“Really good job you and your team have done so far. We’re really satisfied with the results and sales have seriously gone up since we moved from rank 2 to rank 1. “

Give us a call today to learn more about how we can work with you throughout your website life cycle. We are here to support you all the way.

8 things you should be doing to make your site rank in Google

If you have ever started a business for the first time you will know that there are so many things that you can do and the list can be overwhelming. If it is your first time creating a business then it is highly likely you will do lots of things that you do not need to do or you do things in the wrong sequence. I know this all too well having created seven businesses from nothing over the last 14 years.

Getting your site ranked on the first page of Google is like starting a new business – there is so much you can do yet there a several things that you simply must do. If you do these things then you will soar ahead of your non-SEO optimised competitors.

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8 key SEO Tips

SEO tip 1

Get yourself set up with a XML sitemap

A XML site map is basically a list of all the pages on your site. It should tell you also when the page was last updated. XML means eXtensible Markup Language.

Watch this quick video to see how to set up a sitemap using XML.

Make sure you name the sitemap sitemap.xml the name is not that important but the suffix is. And then FTP it to your server and store it in the root of your web site. Eg http://www.seo-magic-webs.com/sitemap.xml

You should add a robots.txt file to your site as well. This is a text file that is located again in the root of your website and it tells robots where to find your sitemap file. See this example on our site http://www.seo-magic-webs.com/robots.txt

Watch this You Tube video now to show you how to set up a XML sitemap so you can rank on Google

SEO tip 2

Set up a Google Webmaster tools account

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Google webmaster tools are very important for your site SEO ranking. Without using the Webmaster tools you are working blind sometimes about the issues Google see with your site. When you create an account and anchor your site to the account Google will give you a lot of information that will benefit you.

You will need a Google account so if you have a Gmail a/c you can use this or set up a new account.

Watch this You Tube video now to show you how to set up a Webmaster tools account in Google so you can rank on Google

You should also set up Yahoo Site Explorer as well. This is similar to Google Webmaster tools. You should lodge your sitemap with them so Yahoo wakes up to learning about your site as well as Google. You will need a Yahoo account to set this up so create an account first.

SEO tip 3

Add a Word Press Blog

Adding a blog allows your site to receive regular content which will mean your site will rank better on Google and Yahoo. Notice we say Word Press blog. Word Press is the best SEO blog you can get. You must have the blog located on your site. If it is off your site (ie on WordPress.com) then it has no SEO value to your site.

Make sure that you load your blog as a sub folder and not as a sub web. This is good www.seo-magic-webs.com/blog this is not blog.seo-magic-webs.com. Sub webs are often seen as separate sites by Google and other search engines. Use a sub-folder to ensure the blog : site connection is strong.

Pick up the free blog software from www.wordpress.org.

SEO tip 4

Fix major W3C HTML errors on your site

Modern HTML coding has changed so fast most web developers have not kept pace. Because of this most websites have coding errors. Having a few coding errors is not a big deal. There are very few W3C compliant sites around.

W3C is the organisation that sets the HTML coding standards for web pages.

To test your pages and rank high on Google use this link http://validator.w3.org

SEO tip 5

Fix Canonical errors on your site

Web developers do not usually know about this issue. It is a major stumbling block to stop you ranking on Google. We usually find that sites that do not rank once they have their canonical issues fixed they rank very well.

Watch this You Tube video to learn more on how to get on Google fast.

When we optimise your site using our SEO.SIMPLE. service we fix all these when you choose the site optimisation package.

SEO tip 6

Make sure you run on a fast server

Server response time now is very important to Google. It announced that it added it as part of its search algorithm early 2010.

At first thought you may wonder why server response time is part of your SEO ranking but if you think like Google then it is obvious. Server speed is part of the user experience. Why should Google serve up a site as being one of the top sites for the selected keyword when it takes a minute to load a page.

As well as ensuring your server is fast then it is also important to ensure your site is always up. If you want to lose your ranking fast then have Google visit your site when it is down and if it experiences this a few time then it will drop your ranking very fast. We have this issue with a client who is not ranking very well. Their server runs like a dog but our client has not had the chance to relocate the site yet to a better server.

If you want to learn what Google thinks of your server speed then watch the video above on the Webmaster tools and you will see a bit about server response times.

SEO tip 7

Add Google Analytics to your site for better SEO monitoring

Google analytics will not help you increase your SEO directly but indirectly. If you are not measuring your SEO results then how can you improve them. Plug Google Analytics into every page of your site so that you have full reporting available using the latest state-of-art tool. Go to http://www.google.com/analytics to add your site. You will need a Google account to set up Analytics. You can you use Gmail account.

Watch this You Tube video to learn how to set up Google Analytics.

SEO tip 8

Fully optimise your website

Having a fully SEO optimised site will allow you site to rise to the top so much better. There are three components to ranking high, site content, back links and SEO optimisation of your site.

Site optimisation includes some of the tips above especially sitemaps. There are also HTML sitemaps and we recommend adding them as well. The tool we shared about above that generates XML sitemaps will also generate HTML sitemaps. XML is a must, HTML is added extra.

When you SEO optimise a site you must ensure the following at a minimum:

• Each and every page has a DIFFERENT page title. We are talking about the HTML page title <title>this is the title</title> and not the content title.
• Each page uses a different META description tag that is 154 characters or less. If more it will be truncated by Google and may not be used. If they are not unique Google tends not to use them.
• Make sure your page titles only use keywords that you want to rank for as much as possible
• Use H1 and H2 tags on your page and have keywords in your titles. If your style sheet does not use H1 and H2 get your designer to change
• Make sure each image has a description in the ALT text (an HTML properly for the image tag)
• Make sure you have a robots.txt file and a sitemap.xml file
• Fix all canonical issues

There is a lot your can do in addition to what is listed above. If you do what is listed above you will stand out from 95% of all other websites.

And remember at the end of the day – adding more and more content to your site is the way to go. That is why our SEO.SIMPLE. service is perfect because it does all this for you for a modest investment amount.

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Another important recent change that has happened with Google is server speed. Google now takes into account the speed of your server and how fast your site pages load. This is something new that they just announced – being a top SEO consultant in Singapore takes time and effort to stay abreast of these changes.

One aspect we have been aware of for a while in connection to ranking results is the length of your web domain registration. This is VERY important when you are creating a new website and want to rank fast on Google. Google usually puts new websites in its ’sandbox’ and allows them to sit there for 3 or 4 months before taking them more serious. You can shorten this initial ranking delay by registering your domain for 3+ years instead of just one year as most people do. This tip alone as allowed one of our clients to rank high on the first page of Google within 3 months of site creation. This client did not even have a fully launched site – we just launched a simple home page and a blog for them.

So the next time you are considering taking on an SEO consultant in Singapore make sure they are one of the top ones and check that they are ranking on the first page of Google.com.sg for the keyword SEO – the most competitive keyword for SEO companies.

1. Make sure you add content regularly – daily is best, weekly is good, monthly is ok. Anything else then don’t expect to keep your ranking at the top. Google only wants the sites that are pumping at the top. if your competitors are adding content more than you they could take away your ranking and displace you.
2. Make sure you have a back-link strategy in place. Onsite content is super important but without that constant stream and growth of backlinks again it shows you are not the leader – do what leaders do – lots of action.
3. Add content to your home page or change the content at least monthly. The best is to have a data feed added from your blog so that summary information shows up about your new entries as and when you add them to your blog.
4. Use RSS datafeeds from your blog and link them to feedburner – this will make sure your content is circulating across the internet.
5. Ensure your XML sitemap on your site is updated every month and pinged top Google and all the major engines unless this is done automatically which it can be set up that way.

Following these simple tips will keep you on the 1st page of Google and keep you rising higher and higher.

Of course if you type in the keyword SEO into Google.com.sg you will find the top SEO companies in Singapore, but you still have a problem – there will be 10 results! How do you choose?

Here are 5 things to look out for in a top SEO company:

• Do they do their own work with their own team or is the work sub-contracted out.This is a big one because your SEO company will be working on your physical website so you want to know you can 100% trust they will look after your site well.
• How often do they need access to your website. Is it just at the beginning and once or twice later on, or do they stop you updating your site as you need.It is important that your SEO company if they have to do on site optimisation because your site is not optimised, that they are in and out with the work they do and do not stop the normal flow of activities that may happen with the site.
• Does your SEO company support you with your server platform and correct server issues like Canonical issues and W3C HTML errors.Having the right server platform is very important for Google ranking. Using a Windows platform is detrimental to your SEO unless you are forced to use it because you are using dot.net Windows technologies. It is always good to ask if the SEO company will support you to move to a better platform and what would they charge to do this should it be needed.

Top SEO company

So these are just a few of the many questions you can ask your SEO company and if they are one of  the top SEO companies they will have good answers for you.

Being a top SEO company is a lot more than just getting results. SEO results are just one part of the overall picture. Of course though SEO ranking results are very important.

Here is a list of several things to look out for when you are talking with SEO companies :

• Do they do their own work with their own team or is the work sub-contracted out.This is a big one because your SEO company will be working on your physical website so you want to know you can 100% trust they will look after your site well.
• How often do they need access to your website. Is it just at the beginning and once or twice later on, or do they stop you updating your site as you need.It is important that your SEO company if they have to do on site optimisation because your site is not optimised, that they are in and out with the work they do and do not stop the normal flow of activities that may happen with the site.
• Does your SEO company support you with your server platform and correct server issues like Canonical issues and W3C HTML errors.Having the right server platform is very important for Google ranking. Using a Windows platform is detrimental to your SEO unless you are forced to use it because you are using dot.net Windows technologies. It is always good to ask if the SEO company will support you to move to a better platform and what would they charge to do this should it be needed.

Top SEO company

So these are just a few of the many questions you can ask your SEO company and if they are one of  the top SEO companies they will have good answers for you.

I often titter to myself when I think of how so many people complicate the process of SEO ranking on Google.

SEO professionals are just like most other professionals, they try to protect their market and their knowledge thinking that in doing so they will get more clients.

At the end of the day though, when you share SEO knowledge that allows anyone to improve their website ranking on Google and Yahoo!, you are doing yourself a favour. If you are new to business, you may think that keeping things to yourself is the best way to go; yet in telling others what you know, you become and expert in your field. When you do this, yes there are people who will use the knowledge and get a result without becoming a client. But guess what – they would not have paid you for your knowledge anyhow! But now at least you have a ’salesperson’ who will chat about you to their friends.

Improve website ranking – key tips

1. Add fresh content regularly – at least once a week
2. Add a sitemap – HTML and XML
3. Add a robots.txt file that tells spider robots where your XML sitemap can be found
4. Update your XML sitemap file once a month – regenerate it so the dates are fresh and new pages are listed
5. Make sure your blog pages are all on your xml sitemap file
6. Click the link to view a XML sitemap page to create a professional SEO result
7. Use PingOmatic.com to ping some of the major sites when you update your site
8. Use this SEO tool to ping Google and the other major search engines when you have updated your XML sitemap
9. Use this SEO Tool to generate an XML sitemap for your site – just make sure you use the option that adds a date and time to the XML entries

At the end of the day, if you are needing an SEO professional to get the results that will take you a long time to learn about on your own, contact us and we will look after you.

We have a SEO service called SEO.SIMPLE. that can rank your website on the first page of Google for unlimited number of keywords for a very modest investment.