Free websites: You get what you pay for.

Let me ask just one simple question.  Has any successful company ever got to where they are today by using free marketing services?  The answer is absolutely not!  So why do small business owners keep signing up for all of these free websites?  That answer is also very simple, they are lazy and greatly under informed about the products they are getting from these free site companies.  The only way these website freebee companies make there living is off of advertising there services on your site and getting back links to build there ranking.  Meanwhile companies with these free are getting negatively looked at by major search engines because of the linking to the free site provider, this in effect tells the crawlers form the search engines you are not legit.  All is not lost, if you fix this problem ASAP and find a reputable firm like Lead Centric our digital marking firm, we can get your site setup with it's own original domain name  and design in just days.  When it comes to business use my advise "if it's free than it's probably not for me".

How to generate organic leads

If you've been in business for more than one day, then you are probably no stranger to the daily website marking goon phone call promising you a first page on Google result for the low, low price of just $1,000, to $1,500 a month.  Now before everyone in the SEO business starts thrashing my blog, let me make it known there are plenty of great SEO companies out there and I have partnered on several projects with some of them. This is also an industry that happens to be flooded with hundreds of thousands of so called SEO companies that scam honest hard working business owners out of thousands of dollars a month.  Here are a couple of things to watch out for to make sure you don't get taken.  First of all make them show you proof of current customers that they have achieved similar goals to the ones they are promising you.  This should be very easy for a dependable reputable company.  Secondly remember the saying Rome was not built in a day, in this case you can't expect to get your company to become a top tier Google listing overnight.  Just as it takes years to build your business reputation it also takes years to organically achieve top tier search results.  A business can achieve this first page search results by hiring a reputable SEO firm but in most cases this can be very expensive and in our current business environment not feasible  by most small business owners.  What you as a business owner need to do is find a firm that is willing to work with you and educate you and your staff on how to build strong organic web based leads.  In this blog we will be doing just that, educating our customers on the process of building a strong website marketing plan, stay tuned. 

 by Mike Langmade on 11/18/12