Hello there,

I am looking for a Swiss based company or individual that specialises in making companies more visible on the Internet, and I'm hoping to launch a collaboration with such a person/company and my own company.

I expect the work is done via social networking and implementing the techniques that move companies website higher up the Google search pages - anybody out there know who offers the service??

Many thanks in advance.

Just wondering if you could be more specific with what you mean by collaboration? Do you plan to hire them or work out another arrangement?

Go to www.google.ch and search for suchmaschinenoptimierung schweiz. This will get you started on the SEO side of things.

The Social Media side you can set up yourself on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc but you will need the time, energy and a non-stop source of topics of engagement to get people interested in your products/services/website.

Beware that some companies will charge you for things which are freely available so keep your eye out for sharks.

Why does it have to be a Swiss based company or individual? Since everything will be done electronically anyway, you should look for a reputable SEO company in other (cheaper) countries than Switzerland.

unless of course, the OP's offering is very CH specific or so complicated that it will require frequent face time with the service provider ..

Hi OP, I could do this for you through my company in the UK.

It would be much cheaper than employing a local company here to do it. I am based in Geneva but my company is in Newcastle, UK.

We specialise in SEO, web design, e-marketing etc.

Please let me know what you want by PM and we could have a chat.

Best wishes

Nick

All I would say to the OP is beware. SEO promoters have been called the snake oil salesmen of the digital age.

I had a web design business a few years ago in the UK, but one of the reasons we gave it up was being unable to compete with the SEO conmen who flooded the market in the early '00s with ludicrous claims about "getting you on the front page of Google". It's a meaningless statement when unqualified. Most 'SEO experts' have done little more than skim through "SEO for Dummies". I'd be surprised if many had even got that far.

It depends what you wish to achieve and your budget. On page SEO is pretty straight forward, but you may find display ads a lot more successful.

SEO and Social are really two separate disciplines and you're more likely to be successful working with a holistic eMarketing expert as there is a much borader picture to a successful online presence then just SEO.

AS with other advice go abroad, its cheaper and in my view better then the whats available here.

My ex-husband owns a search-engine optimization (SEO) company in Seattle that has done very well. (www.visualscope.com).

Perhaps things have changed in the past few years, but when I worked with him, I learned that:

If you want a website to move up in the main search results for Google, it does take time. But first, you have to edit the text on your website because Google sends out "spiders" that feel the web for the key words/phrases that are being searched. So one of the tricks is to make these search words/key phrases appear all over your website, so that the Google "spiders" will find them quickly and easily and, hence, make your website appear in the main (left side) Google search results.

Now, if you want to appear on the right-side of the screen in the Google results, that you must pay for. I think it is called AdWords, and for that you would deal with Google directly. I set this up for my past employer and it was quite easy.

You could probably find a company here in CH by doing a Google search for "Zurich search engine optimization" (for example). Though there is probably a better term for it in German, French or Italian.

Good luck.

Zurifred,
There are lot's of young clever swiss kid's who do that kind of thing.
Please don't go looking out side of Switzerland for this service or you join the PRICE DUMPING game if you do.

On a local level switzerland is suffering from this attitude, people want to be here and earn the rates that we have but don't want to pay the same rates for things YOU need here.

This is destroying the Swiss market, I know because I lost my company to such policies, where client's wanted and still do promote and put on big shows here to get the Swiss income but the ers go to germany to get technical services because they have prices way lower than here.

Look you can get a kebab in Berlin for 50cent, but the average wage is less than a grand per month.

FRED if you want a good connection PM me and i will hook you up with the young guy who I know does that.

Simon

How do I thank Carrie F (or any user) in the EF?
By the way, anymore tips as Carrie F's tips?

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and managing your on-line presence are two very different things.

There is no point being at the top of search engine rankings if everything about you on-line is bad or out of date.

Whilst you may be able to do most of this yourself, it is often better to let an outside company manage this and let you concentrate on your core business.

This need not be a Swiss company. As others mentioned it is worth looking around elsewhere

Hey there,

What I think you should do is go over to seodataservice[dot]com and use their services for your business.
They're really great and trust me when I say that you won't be disappointed.

Regards