Search Engine Optimisation FAQ's
Smiths Internet Services
General questions about SEO:
In what period of time should I see my SEO results?
Unfortunately, it is impossible to be able to predict the amount of time it will take to achieve your results in search engines. The results depend on the efficiency of the search engines finding all of the changes we have made. The changes that are made to you website (that are outlined in your seo assessment) are found much faster. Registering back links however, can be a slow process.
Our SEO link acquisition team has been completely trained in identifying websites that will speed up the search result listings for your site. If we can secure some strong links early and the search engines are quick to pick them up, then we should start seeing results within 6-8 weeks from the commencement of your link building.
In regards to Google, your results will probably take 4-6 months to achieve. This is due to Google's algorithm and how slow it is at noticing new websites. When your Google results do come through they should roughly match up with your results on Yahoo, so use Yahoo as a gauge for your future Google results.
What is the importance of link building in SEO?
Link building is the main part of SEO and will in the long run be the key to top positioning in search engines. Finding and establishing these links is a very hard and takes time. Once links are established and search engines acknowledge them pointing to your website, you will start to see your results being achieved. Depending on the industry you're in makes the reciprocation rate higher and lower and it also determines how many links are need before you will start seeing strong results in the search engines.
Having a resources page, why is it important?
Your resource page is important because that is what is used to acquire reciprocal links for your web site. Our SEO link building team handles the locating of these top quality links for you. Once the links are found, you are notified by email. Some of the sites found will require their link being added to your resource page before contact is made regarding a link exchange. By contacting those after adding their link to your resource page it increase the chance of reciprocation. If they do not link back within a certain period of time we will remove their link.
Having your resource page with a high google pagerank is beneficial. This is because other websites will want to do a link exchange with your website. To achieve this, a small link to the resource page is required from every main page on your site (especially your home page). The link can be small and placed at the bottom of each page, it just needs to be visible. You cannot use colour blending so you cannot see it or any other unethical techniques otherwise your website will be penalised.
What is the purpose of linking to competitor websites?
Sites that compete with yours will be suggested by our link building team as being good links. This is because the links are determined stronger by the search engines as they are relevant and will achieve higher positioning for your website. If for any reason you do not wish to link with your competitor websites please inform us upon sign up and we will make the appropriate adjustments.