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They’ve taken strong ownership. Rather than being a contractor, they come to the table like they’re a part of our team.”
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“The way they built our support team is as unique as our business. It’s like we all just fit together - and therefore get more accomplished in less time.”
- Director of Marketing, Jazzercise, Inc.
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Why work with Ignite Visibility over other SEO agencies
- Consistently named a top SEO company in the United States on all top industry lists
- Over 50 5 star reviews online
- No long term contracts, we earn our keep each month
- We teach search engine optimization and web analytics at UC San Diego (we will teach you)
- Over 150 clients such as Tony Robbins, 5 Hour Energy, The Knot World Wide, and Sharp Healthcare.
- We integrate SEO with social media, CRO, SEM, content marketing and public relations.
- Featured on the New York Times, Forbes, Search Engine Land, Entrepreneur, Inc.
- Expert and experienced staff. Over 85 full-time expert employees.
- Our CEO is one of the top SEO consultants in the field.
- We are international SEO experts (full translation and international SEO capabilities)
- We are more than an SEO company and manage over 60 million in advertising a year
It’s harder than ever to plan, execute, and refine an SEO strategy that gets results. The days where blogging and the occasional ad campaign could land you on the front page of the Google search results are over.
Today, SEO has evolved into a complex strategy made of many moving parts that must work together as a unified brand experience. Brands also need to optimize for new features like voice search and featured snippets and ensure that everything is set up properly on the technical side.
What’s more, factors like authority and credibility are becoming increasingly critical to search performance, which means you’ll also need to include reputation management in your SEO strategy.
Ignite Visibility listens to your business goals, gets to know your brand identity, market, and competitive landscape and uses those insights to develop a custom strategy that gets you where you need to go--and beyond.
Here’s more about what sets us apart from other SEO companies:
One of the most critical factors in choosing an SEO company is how they measure campaign performance. While some SEO companies apply the same generic reports to every account, Ignite Visibility builds custom reports based on the KPIs that matter most to your organization.
What’s more, we’re always fully-transparent in our reporting, offering regular updates for keyword performance, user behavior, rankings, and website performance. We’ll always keep you in the loop, so you know exactly where your website stands as well as what steps we’re taking to improve performance.
Award-Winning SEO Services with a Proven Track Record
Ranked #1 SEO agency on Clutch.co in the US, UK, and Canada, Ignite Visibility is led by expert SEO consultant, John Lincoln who was recently named Search Engine Land Search Marketer of the Year.
Boasting 90 expert employees and over 150 clients including Tony Robbins, 5-Hour Energy, and The Knot Worldwide, Ignite Visibility is a mainstay on industry lists and has been featured in New York Times, Forbes, Search Engine Land, Entrepreneur, and Inc.
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SEOIgnite Visibility’s SEO services offer a comprehensive approach to increasing your website rankings by optimizing on-page performance, backend issues, and developing an SEO-friendly content strategy that speaks to your ideal audience.
We’ll start by fixing the technical errors, ensuring crawlers can easily navigate through your website, so more people can find you. From there, we’ll perform a deep dive using a variety of tools to identify the best keywords in your niche, and help you implement them in a way that drives sales.
LOCAL SEO
LOCAL SEOFor brick-and-mortars, increasing your search performance can dramatically increase the amount of foot traffic to your physical location. With our local business clients, our primary goal is getting them on the map so they can capture more high-intent customers performing “near me” searches.
We’ll first focus our efforts on optimizing your Google My Business profile and establishing consistency across all existing business listings. Once everything is set up correctly, we’ll focus on building citations and developing a review generation strategy for building credibility with customers.
INTERNATIONAL SEO
As your company expands into global markets, you’ll need to develop a strategy for connecting with local audiences in their native language. While you might be able to translate some SEO content, understanding the search intent of foreign language queries, or which terms users enter to find information is incredibly challenging.
Ignite Visibility specializes in multilingual and multiregional SEO strategies, allowing our clients to deliver engaging experiences regardless of location or language.
Digital PR & Link Building
Digital PR & Link BuildingFor brick-and-mortars, increasing your search performance can dramatically increase the amount of foot traffic to your physical location. With our local business clients, our primary goal is getting them on the map so they can capture more high-intent customers performing “near me” searches.
We’ll first focus our efforts on optimizing your Google My Business profile and establishing consistency across all existing business listings. Once everything is set up correctly, we’ll focus on building citations and developing a review generation strategy for building credibility with customers.
SEO CONSULTING
SEO CONSULTINGFor organizations that could use some guidance, Ignite Visibility offers SEO consulting services designed to help clients develop, implement, and optimize an SEO strategy.
We’ll audit internal processes, offer recommendations and hands-on support, and provide documentation outlining everything from workflows to metrics to channel-specific strategies.
eCommerce SEO
eCommerce SEOOur e-commerce SEO services aim to help brands attract qualified customers and set the stage for increased conversions. We’ll address technical issues, optimize descriptions, and improve your internal linking structure to encourage browsing.
Additionally, we’ll apply structured markup to help search engines better understand your site, focus on building a memorable brand, and develop a review generation strategy to build consumer trust.
OUR SEO PROCESS
STEP 1
Keyword Analysis
STEP 2
Keyword Assignment
STEP 3
On-Site SEO Code Optimization
STEP 4
On-Site Content SEO
STEP 5
On-Site Internal Link Optimization
STEP 6
Advanced SEO and External Linking
STEP 1
Keyword Analysis
The first step of our process involves analyzing the keywords you are interested in and the keywords your competitors are targeting. Ignite SEO experts will aggregate this data and then use specific search optimization tools to generate further keyword options. The final result will be a list of potential keyword segments to choose from.
STEP 2
Keyword Assignment
With a keyword analysis in hand, we now have the information needed to make decisions. A consultant at our SEO company will assign keywords to the pages on your website. This part of the strategy is critical, as it will be the road map for the entire campaign. Now that we know what we would like each page to rank for, we can begin on-site optimization. Onsite SEO is a process that Ignite Visibility makes sure to expedite quickly so that quick results can be realized. SEO does take time.
STEP 3
On-Site SEO Code Optimization
It is near impossible to find search engine optimization that offers the same level of code optimization as Ignite Visibility. Optimizing websites is one of our core specialties, so you’ll know that your site is in good hands. Your code optimization will entail first fixing anything that is broken (this is an important part of the process, as it allows us to ensure nothing is technically wrong with the site). Following this, we will optimize your page titles, meta descriptions and meta keywords. We will also take a look to make sure the search engines can index your content, no pages are being blocked, all links are being followed, and everything on the backend is overall in top-notch condition for search engine indexing. We also look at advanced strategies such as Schema.org, images, videos, sitemaps, robots.txt and more. Finally, we ensure that the website abides by Google’s Quality Guidelines.
STEP 4
On-Site Content SEO
At Ignite Visibility, we have made major changes to our SEO content marketing post Google Hummingbird Update. We currently deliver high-end inbound content marketing, which sends large levels of traffic, social shares and links to the website. Our content strategies set us apart from other SEO companies, as our editorial team delivers the highest quality content. We have 15 writers on staff, as well as a content manager, who ensures each piece of content is the highest quality. In addition, we have full translation abilities, allowing us to optimize your website in an language.
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Content search optimization is a critical part of the process. The process is very straightforward; we will simply take the keywords listed in the keyword assignment for that page and work them into that page’s copy. This will be a further signal to search engines to rank you for those terms. In this phase, we will also make sure that all on-page titles, such as H1s and H2s are optimized. Furthermore, post Google Hummingbird update, we ensure that certain topics are touched on which Google deems high-quality. Our formula for copy optimization is proven to work.
STEP 5
On-Site Internal Link Optimization
For very large websites with millions and millions of pages, creating a search engine optimization friendly internal linking structure can be tough, especially if your strategy is fragmented. Ignite Visibility experts have worked with sites reaching hundreds of millions of pages and can ensure your internal linking structure is architecturally correct. Likewise, if you are smaller site we can maximize the pages you have and assist you in creating a new page and internal linking development strategy. The Internal linking process consists of making sure each link points to a page with the correct keyword in the anchor text. In addition, there are a few expert strategies we implement in this phase that we only reveal to clients, making us one of the best SEO companies at onsite SEO.
Step 6
Advanced SEO and External Linking
FAQS
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SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It’s the process of optimizing a piece of content online so that it ranks higher in search engines such as Google and Bing. This is important to businesses as it drives visitors to their website.
SEO reports are based on the business model and goals of the business.
A reputable search engine optimization company will provide you with a monthly report. The contents of that report will depend on the nature of your business, as well as the length of time a given campaign has been in progress.
If you’re running an e-commerce site, you can expect to see a report that shows your conversions. On the other hand, if you’re running a “newsy” website, your report will focus more on traffic trends.
As a rule of thumb, though, SEO firms provide reports that show how well your site ranks for keywords related to your business and keyword growth over time, changes to rank over time, traffic patterns, and goal reports.
A few key reports to look for include:
- Year-over-year growth
- Month-over-month growth
- Increase in ranking for top keywords
- Earned high-quality links
- Conversion rates by channel
- Click-through rate for top pages
Getting ranked number one makes all the difference. The #1 result in Google’s organic search results has an average click-through rate (CTR) of 31.7%, and the #1 organic result is 10x more likely to receive a click compared to a page in #10 spot.
- 72% of searchers will select organic over a paid listing in the Google search engine results. (Moz)
- Organic CTR for positions 7-10 is almost the same. (Backlinko)
- The average cost of search engine optimization in the US is between 2,500 and 5,000 per month or per project.
- In most cases, search engine optimization beats PPC and social media marketing in lead generation.
- Organic search is responsible for 53% of all site traffic. (Search Engine Land)
- Google controls 88.6% of the search market. Bing controls 4.98%. (Statista)
- 93% of users do not scroll past the first page of search engine results. (Moz)
- 78% of consumers prefer to learn about a brand through articles rather than ads. (CoSchedule)
- 55% of marketers say blog content creation is their top inbound marketing priority. (CoSchedule)
- In a study conducted by Search Engine Journal in 2017, SEO leads had a 14.6% close rate (Search Engine Journal)
- Voice is expected to be a $40 billion channel by 2022. (Strategy Consultants)
- 76% of smart speaker users perform local voice searches at least weekly. (BrightLocal)
- Just 22.1% report that they generally read the featured snippet and consider their question answered without clicking the blue link. (Moz)
Google and Bing offer search engines in nearly every country and language around the world. International SEO in the practice of getting a website ranked in targeted country and language specific search engines.
Local SEO differs from traditional SEO in that it’s an effort to rank a website for people in a specific region.
Whereas traditional SEO usually involves ranking a site so that people all across the nation (if not all over the world) will find it when they search for a specific keyword or phrase, Local SEO is meant to reach people in carefully defined area (such as Chicago, Illinois or Huntsville, Alabama).
Local SEO is most often applied to brick-and-mortar locations or those targeting consumers in a very specific area, as well as larger franchises that target multiple, specific locations.
For example, if you’re an electrician in Chicago with a website, it’s not likely that you’d want your site to be visible to people in Los Angeles who are searching for an electrician. You would, however, want people in the Chicagoland area to find your website.
Local SEO optimization generally includes claiming and optimizing a business’s Google My Business page, getting local citation listings, generating reviews, and a content marketing strategy that emphasis location-specific keywords and trends.
Keep in mind also that when people search for local businesses, some of the top results are eligible to appear in the Local 3-Pack. That’s a box with highlighted business listings that appear at the very top of the search results.
If you’re running a business in need of Local SEO, you want to be in the Local 3-Pack.
At Ignite Visibility, our team of Local SEO experts knows all the tricks to give your website the greatest chance of landing in the Local 3-Pack.
An SEO company is a Search Engine Optimization Company. This means, the company provides services to business to help them get better listed in search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex and more. In most cases, they will help with Google primarily. The company focuses on getting a business strategically listed in the search engine so that the website gets traffic and more businesses from people using the search engine. Search engine optimization is a very important and popular digital marketing practices. Common SEO services include technical audits, link building, content writing, on-page optimization, international SEO, eCommerce SEO, local SEO and more.
If you have plenty of free time on your hands and not a whole lot to do, you can certainly tackle SEO services all by yourself. That’s probably not the case, though. If you’re like most entrepreneurs or managers, your overworked and stuck with a backlog of action items that you still haven’t handled. That’s why you should outsource your SEO responsibilities to a reputable company. Then, when that company is handling your SEO, you can take those other priorities off your plate and work on building your business.
There are a number of questions you should ask when interviewing an SEO company that you’re thinking about hiring:
- How long have you been in business?
- Who are some of your high-profile clients?
- Can you provide me with some references?
- What kind of reporting do you provide?
- How will I know if I’m getting my money’s worth?
- What are the latest trends in SEO?
- Do you offer a free site audit?
- Do you have any experience with businesses in my industry?
- What kinds of strategies generally work for businesses in my industry?
- How do you keep up with the latest changes in SEO?
- What were some of the most recent Google updates?
The actual amount you’ll spend depends on the size of your business, your website traffic, and your overall needs. SEO companies charge between $100 a month and $100,000 a month depending on the scope of the projected. Most clients pay between $6,000 a month and $60,000 a month. Many of the larger ones have significant services, technically issues that require expertise, an international presence or need a substantial team. In some cases, they are large franchisees or multi-location businesses or have multiple websites that need to be managed. We provide custom services for these business and large teams that offer significant value.
SEO is not a one-time deal. It’s an investment that requires maintenance and ongoing attention to see any sustainable results. 6 months is generally a good time frame to see notable results from SEO. During the 6 to 12 month time frame, you will see the largest gains. It’s an investment that requires maintenance and ongoing attention to see any sustainable results.
Launched in 2013 by co-founders John Lincoln and Krish Coughran, Ignite Visibility is a premier full service digital marketing agency based in San Diego, CA.
Our single-focused mission is to provide the most comprehensive offering coupled with the highest level of customer service in the industry.
With over 20 years of combined industry experience, friends John and Krish endeavored to create a more perfect agency and strive every day to achieve that lofty goal.
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