Top Search Engine Marketing Companies

PR Log (Press Release) – Sep 09, 2009 – Below is a list of the top 30 Search Engine Marketing Companies in the United States. These Top Search Engine Marketing companies were put together by Ad Age about 6 months ago. Now, what makes them the 'top' Search Engine Marketing Companies is something that I am not aware of. Perhaps it is their volume of clients, number of employees, or the size of the clients they have. I highly doubt this list was put together on the most important aspect of being a 'Top Search Engine Marketing Company' which would be results. That is, what are their clients return on investment. But anyway, I wanted to give you the list of the Top Search Engine Marketing Companies, and compare. And also show how effective Skislak Digital Advertising can be, with providing the exact same services for a much lower price. The reason for this blog is because, Yesterday, I was searching adwords companies on Google, and noticed there was a company, that will remain nameless, that is charging companies $399 to post their site to Google Maps. Now creating an account on Google maps is something that takes literally 2 minutes, and is very easy to do. And after thinking about it, I realized that businesses are being taken advantage of, simply because they don't know. With all of the new Internet marketing mediums, it's very easy to put a price tag on every aspect of Marketing online. By the way, this is a service that I provide to my clients for free.

Ok, so here they are:

1. JumpFly, Inc.
$2,495 start up fee.
BUDGET MONTHLY SPEND
$1,000 - $3,000    $400
$3,000 - $5,000    $600
$5,000 - $10,000    $1,000
$10,000 - $15,000    $1,500
$15,000 - $20,000    $2,000
$20,000 - $30,000    $3,000
$30,000 - $50,000    $4,000
$50,000 - $75,000    $5,000
$75,000 - $100,000    $7,500

2. Intrapromote PPC Agency
Intrapromote integrates its service offerings into a customized strategy based on each client's goals. By building its customers' campaigns on a solid organic (natural search) foundation then developing the strategy to involve optimization, syndication and promotion through Universal search channels, Intrapromote helps companies reach their target audiences online.

3. SEOP- No Pricing provided

4. WebiMax
We have experience growing campaigns from as little as $2,000 a month to over $200,000 a month in online PPC marketing. While no one can guarantee they can remove click fraud from your account, we do mitigate any potential losses by being on top of managing your campaign in a very hands-on format. Our sophisticated PPC Management program will provide your company with an increase in coversion rates and will ultimately offer a significant improvement on your overall return on investment.

5. Increase Visability Inc.

6. Bruce Clay Inc.

We approach PPC Management with a very different philosophy than most. Our pay per click philosophy is that keywords should be selected and managed if they convert and achieve your business goals. Conversion for a PPC search engine marketing campaign can be defined as immediate revenue or delayed revenue such as a lead.

As a result we do not typically advocate clients have hundreds or thousands of keywords. Instead most of our PPC clients generally have 150-300 keywords and we manage them to achieve a targeted conversion metric such as Cost Per Sale/Acquisition or Cost Per Lead (if conversion can be measured.)

Our base rate for our pay per click management services starts at $1,950.00 USD. Each month, the Client must provide:

  1. A deposit on this account ("Service Fees") equal to the largest Monthly Fee plus the largest monthly PPC Spend which must be made five business days prior to the end of each month. The deposit must be accomplished in advance of the spend.
  2. A monthly deposit of fees equal to the Monthly Fee plus the current month's PPC Spend which must be made five business days prior to the end of each month.
  3. We will retain the Monthly Fee then deposit the Pay Per Click Spend into search engine accounts.
  4. Failure to provide Service Fees via wire transfer five days prior to the deposit date required by the search engines may delay the monthly continuation of this project. We will only continue PPC management services once Service Fees have been received at our bank.

The example of this is that a $25,000 PPC Spend (amount deposited in, for example, your Google account managed by us) with a calculated fee (based upon keyword distribution) of $4,000 service (for a total of $29,000), must be deposited (wired or company check) in our bank account five business days prior to the end of each month. We will retain the Monthly Fee and distribute the Pay Per Click Spend into the Google, Yahoo!, etc. account with an intended activation date of the first of each month. Having us handle the distribution allows us to balance the PPC Spend as appropriate between the various search engines to maximize the traffic and project goals.

7. SEO Image Inc.

8. Oneupweb

9. ThinkBIGsites
Monthly Advertising Expenditure    Local PPC
$100-$9,000
Management Fee    $660*
Keywords    150
Additional active keywords    $4/keyword
Phone meetings    1/month
Reports    Weekly
** Note that you are only allowed 150 keywords, which is extremely small. After that, you are charged $4/keyword.

10. Customer Magnetism
11. WebMetro
12. SEO Inc.
13. Web.com Search Agency
14. Location3 Media
15. First In Search Inc.
16. Effiecient Frontier Inc.
17. Maximum Hit
18. Reprise Media
19. Enquiro Search Solutions Inc.
20. Morpheus Media LLC
21. Target Logics
22. KeyRelevance
23. Response Mine
24. Page Zero Media
25. eVision LLC.
26. SpriderPlat Consulting Inc.
27. Pure Visibility Inc.
28. NetSetGoMarketing
29. Point It, Inc.
30. Top Click Media

Now, I realize that Skislak Digital Advertising hasn't made the "Top Search Engine Marketing Companies" list, but perhaps after reading the rates, and knowing what you are getting for your money, Skislak Digital Advertising will be on YOUR Top Search Engine Marketing Companies list.

Go To: www.skislakdigitaladvertising.com for SEM plans that start at $400/month