I would not make any decisions based solely on a Yahoo! Answers response from the public, especially when making a decision to pay a vendor thousands of dollars to market your business. It’s too easy to manipulate the answers posted on here. I left my 2 cents along with some information on Qualified Impressions below that may help you make a decision.

I suggest you do the following:

- Research online; call up the Top 5 companies that appear on the Google search engine so you know they at least did a good job for their own company website rankings.
- Ask them lots of questions. Ask how they do what they do.
- Review testimonials.
- Get pricing.
- Call references. Ask them to show you other websites they have worked on.

There’s not much more you can do. If you research the business on Google by typing in the NAME of their organization and find no complaints regarding scams or bad service, that;s a good sign. Most of the rip-off SEO companies have burned their clients and have negative reviews all over the internet, which, again, you can find on Google.

Regarding Qualified Impressions specifically, their website appears to be very professional. They list out testimonials here: http://www.qualifiedimpressions.com/testimonials.html

And, I took the liberty of Googling their business name out of curiosity and found a few other links that may help you with your decision.

http://www.decideseo.com/seo-company-rankings.php (a great list of companies to call, Qualified Impressions is #4 out of the 25 total)

http://decideseo.com/?p=281

http://decideseo.com/?p=215

http://www.highsearchranking.com/index.php/top-seo-companies/

Hope that helps

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Hi, we’re working on an upcoming pirate themed multilayer game and we’ve recently added two adsense banners on the forums. The problem is that all of the ads are usually unrelated. For example, most of them are for stuff like dating, weight loss, or even pet insurance!

I was just wondering how I can optimize the ads by editing the meta tags for phpbb3. I’ve tried changing some tags but I still have no luck!

Thanks!

oh and the site is:

http://forum.piratestoryonline.com

First follow Google’s heat map for the best places to put ads in a forum

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43868

Then try section targeting where you tell Google the content they should read to give you better targeted ads

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=23168

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Especially a webmaster/consultant that is fluent in web design, search engine optimization and internet marketing?

Are high quality webmasters usually well versed in all areas or are these different fields of expertise?

I am looking for someone particularly experienced in the mortgage field.

Thanks in advance.

I’d suggest you check the local chamber of commerce. If you go visit a group like that, you’d be surprised of now many people you can find with a varied number of talents across multiple fields. Another suggestion would be to put up a classified ad on something like CraigsList. There are quite a few people on there that have a varied number of skills as well!

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How to Master Search Engine Website Optimization?

February 8, 2010

Does anyone know of a way of consistently producing results with Search Engine Website Optimization? I want concrete stuff, not freebies
My sites are falling from Google’s Organic rankings. HELP!!!!!!!
Hello Andrea, that problem was a concern for me previously, because I had many affiliate and product sites that were costing me a fortune on Google Adwords [...]

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What are the easiest ways to improve search engine optimization?

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There is plenty you can do for free.
1. Have plenty of text on your site: search engines need something to read.Add alt tags to photos.
2. Make sure your meta tags are there (not as important as it once was but you need a title and description at least)
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