Local Search Engine
Optimization Services

Obviously, our company website is not the place for us to talk about other companies that are in direct competition with us. But there are many local search engine optimization services that complement rather than compete with ours and we want to help you find those.

We think Website Design Hawaii is the best choice for SEO if you are in Hawaii and have or plan to create a relatively small website. For example, florists or wedding coordinators would find us a good fit. However, for larger organizations with complex websites such as, say, hotel chains, we recommend the following businesses (more links to come):

• Net Solutions Hawaii
• eBizHawaii.com
• MauiSEO

The other kind of local search engine optimization services we list here are tools that local businesses and organizations can use to improve their web search rankings, without spending any money.

For example, as discussed in the article on search engines, one of the most important ways to optimize your site is by choosing keyword phrases and having the words in the phrases be a certain percentage of the words on your page. But which phrases? You want them to be phrases people are likely to use in searches, but you also want to minimize competing sites optimized for the same phrases. (An upcoming article will discuss the criteria for choosing keywords in more detail.) Here are some sites that help you to choose with keyword selection tools.

• Yahoo Keyword Selector Tool: This one shows you how many times a phrase was searched for last month on Yahoo,as well as similar phrases.
• Submit Express Keyword Suggestion Tool: This one does the same, for several engines.
• Wordtracker Free Trial: This one is the best of these because it also indicates how many competing sites use a phrase.

As was also discussed in the article on search engines, getting other quality sites to link to you is important. Another upcoming article will discuss in detail how to do this. Here are some links to directory sites that will link to you for free, or for a nominal fee.

• Open Directory Project: Also known as DMOZ, currently serves as the directory for Google. Free submit, but is understaffed.
• Web World: Free listing or $25.00 "premium" listing.
• Wow Directory: $20.00 submission fee.
• Free Directory Listings from webseodesign.com: This is a great resource that thoroughly reviews a large number of free directory listings.

Other local search engine optimization services we will list in the future include websites offering optimization software, websites offering more tutoring, and local graphic designers and photographers and videographers who can help you to create a "look" to your site that will keep people on your site once they've found it.

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