No! Although this was common practice in the past, submitting your web site to the search engines is no longer required 0r recommended. In fact, Google might penalize your site if this were to happen. As long as your site has been well-optimized using intelligent SEO techniques, and you have an up-to-date XML sitemap, your site will be indexed by the search engines on a regular basis.

Since we do not own and control the search engines, we cannot guarantee that your site will end up where you want it to in the grand scheme of things. Any reputable search engine optimization specialist will tell you the same thing.

However, experience shows that the measures we take to help your site gain a better foothold on the search engines will have a very beneficial effect on your traffic and search engine position.

There are so many people and services out there taking advantage of people, making promises they can't and don't keep, and basically making it harder for those of us on the up and up.

I'm actually quite honest and I will tell you that nobody can "guarantee" anything when it comes to search engine optimization. The search engines are constantly changing, in response to people trying to "cheat" their way to the top of the listings. The best way to get and keep a good ranking is to make sure your site is top notch, with great content, fast loading pages (ie your hosting server should be fast and reliable), and a clear navigational structure that helps your visitors - and the search engines find all of your pages.

If one does a proper job of things, you should see a dramatic improvement fairly quickly. Keyword research is very important - you need to know exactly what people are typing in to Google and other search engines, and then hone your pages so that they include your keyphrases. It's also better to focus on the "long tail" keywords, which are more specific, than to try and rank for 1 or 2 word keywords.

At Pets SEO, we pride ourselves on helping web sites like yours recover from the dreaded "Panda Pummelling" that so many sites have fallen victim to since around February 26th of 2011.

Although the Panda/Farmer Google algorithm update has been considered as disastrous to many online businesses, it is actually a "wake up call" and a "call to action" from our friends at Google. Google wants us all to pull up our socks and put out web site content that is helpful, relevent and unique. Google wants to deliver the best search experience to their users, and as such, is rewarding sites offering the most relevant, user-friendly, interesting and value-added web sites with higher rankings.

You're the expert when it comes to your business, whether you are a dog breeder, cat breeder, pet sitter, pooper scooper, trainer or other pet professional. We'll help you bring that knowledge and experience to your web site, and set you up as an online subject matter expert for your field. By carefully crafting your site's content, theme, structure and keyphrase usage, your site can and will climb higher on the search engines, and, as an added bonus - stay there!