What do you think about this service below from Network Solutions? For a non-SEO practitioner, is it worth the price ($463 for the first year) by pulling all the tools together or would there be better ways to spend the money? Thanks! Eric http://www.networksolutions.com/web-site-promotion/search-engine-submission.jsp Features - Submission of your Web site to national and local search engines and directories - Expert analysis of your Web site for factors that together increase the chances that your Web site will be indexed by search engines - 60 minutes of personalized search engine optimization recommendations - Search Engine Optimization tools, including: - Link Popularity Tool - Meta Tag Generator - Search Results Ranking - Keyword Suggestion Tool - HTML Analysis - Web site Uptime - In-depth Web site visitor and traffic analysis, including: - Page Views - Unique Visitors - Referrers - Visitor Detail - Search Engine Referrals - Search Engine Keywords - Setup and configuration of reports by a search engine marketing expert Capabilities - Gain increased exposure on search engines with minimal investment - Achieve better search engine rankings by implementing our experts' personalized recommendations and insight into search engine optimization for your Web site - Ensure your most recent Web site content is indexed by search engines with configurable, automatic monthly re-submission - Easily identify the most valuable search terms or phrases appropriate to your Web site with our keyword research tool - Find out how many other Web sites link to your Web site with our Link Popularity tool - Learn how your competitors rank on the same keywords you are targeting, so you can develop a strategy to improve your position relative to your competitors - Monitor the performance of your Web site and the number of visitors that come to your Web site with our Web site analytics tool
I stopped using Network Solutions years ago. They have a safe corporate brand so they are looking to get business from those that are not familiar with the products and services they are selling. They were the highest priced and had the lowest service for domain names. You can probably find what they are offering for $19.95 elsewhere and the quality and service would be better. But I'm just a little bitter and don't like those kind of companies.
This is not a question about domains. But anyway, looking at the list of features from Network Solutions, is there anything of value that I cannot do for free with AWStats and Google Analytics? What other free tools? Finally, should we just spend the $500 to get Google Adwords / Yahoo! PPC click campaigns going or is there a better way to spend the money? Thanks! Eric