Wednesday 11 February 2015

Attracta ,a general review of SEO service provider

by Ziuby

Attracta is a SEO service provider. They provide free as well as paid services. Attracta is a Search Engine Optimization service offered to people who have access to cPanel with their websites.
It has quick, free, easy-to-use SEO tools as well as a few paid services that can be used to boost your search engine rankings.
It’s obvious that the free services are worth using but what about the paid services? Are they legal? Will they boost your search engine rankings enough to warrant the cost? Or are you better off learning SEO and saving your money?
 Services Offered :

1. Free Services :

Services related to Google:

1. Attracta will submit your website’s sitemap to the biggest search engines. This is useful since you don’t have to worry about submitting your xml-sitemap to each  search engine manually.

2. Another service is to check if you’re blacklisted by Google. As long as your website isn’t hosting anything illegal content or viruses, you don’t need to worry. Check your new listings: What this does is that it verifies that the sitemaps you submitted with Get in Google were received. Although there are few other free services offered, there is always a small catch where the paid service will always sound like a better option.

2. Paid Services :

1. Attracta will submit your sitemap to either 20 or 100 search engines, depending on how much you’re willing to pay.
 
2. Link Building: Similar to Attracta’s free service, this one will submit your link to 10, 20, or 50 websites.
 
3. To get Rankings: Attracta will write a blog entry for you with backlinks and submit it to five websites.

3. Monthly Services:
   
1. A team of trained writers create original content as per your website material.

2. We build mini authority websites that link to your own website using your keywords. This helps increase your website search engine rankings.

3. Backlinks from other websites are used by Google and help determine rankings in search engines.

4. Within 2-6 weeks you should start to see an increase in your rankings as well as traffic to your website.

5. Press Release: A team analyses and researches the website to make a custom press release about the business. It is finalised after customer approval and released to  different Authoritative websites and news websites. Google sees your site being linked to from hundreds of authoritative news sites and reputable blogs – giving you an instant boost of credibility and will surely help in the ranking.

3. Competitors to Attracta :

Following is a list of few alternatives or competitors of Attracta services providers. We can do some more research on these if required.

1. SEOMOZ
2. BRIGHTEDGE
3. CallidusCloud
4. WebCEO
5. Optify

4. Market Feedback :

1. Attracta is currently used by top hosting providers including HostGator, BlueHost, HostDime, UK2.Net, and HostPapa.
2. After going through several blogs and forum posts I found that feedback given by the users was of mixed feelings. Some found it to their liking while some were    critical about it. Unfortunately I cannot put all the posts here. Although following are some quotes from the news blogs:-
   “We were looking for an easy-to-use solution to help our clients obtain more traffic to their websites, and Attracta was a perfect fit,” Brent Oxley, of HostGator, explained when asked why HostGator chose Attracta. “They have an easy integration into the cPanel API, and an automated, free setup that takes our clients step by step through the process,” Oxley added.
“Attracta has helped our clients increase traffic to their websites,” Oxley continued. “As a host, it has helped us extend the life of our clients, while also adding an additional revenue stream.”

5. Things to look out for before implementing :
   Pros:1. XML Sitemaps are submitted directly to the major web search engines. You don’t have to do it manually.
2. Link building is supported by Attracta.
3. Wordpress is supported with a plug-in XML-sitemaps; changes made will be automatically uploaded.

   Cautions:
1. If Google webmaster directives are not followed possibility of getting penalized.
2. Paid services may not be completely worth it.
3. For Ranking Attracta uses Blog entries with backlinks and submit it different websites. This has risk factors.
4. It may be that they submit the exact same blog entry to all the websites. Google may detect this as a spam and penalise the website.
5. Attracta uses nofollow links to boost rankings. This may not be helpful because Google now ignores such nofollow links. Implementation of this may not help in the    results.
6. Submitting your xml-sitemap to multiple search engine providers, depending on how much you are willing to pay is a service offered. The question is does this help?  Google is a big player and has the majority of market share when it comes to search engine usage followed by Yahoo, Baidu, Bing etc. Thus only targeting Google first makes sense as by association one can rank better in on the search engines too.

It seem that one must do complete homework before partnering up with someone for SEO. One can never go wrong if they get the basics right, here are few basic guidelines for SEO .

#ziuby

2 comments:

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