Strong search engine rankings are high on the list of any serious online entrepreneur yet many don’t have the first idea how to achieve these. They may have a great site with a lot to offer but no idea how to promote it properly.
Before I start the review, I just wanted to quickly apologize for posting private reviews twice in 2 days, however, the advertisers wanted these reviews out as quickly as possible, and this is the only way we could have fitted things in.
The review we are doing today is of a company called iBusinessPromoter and what they specialize in is helping those site owners who may not know much about SEO, but who like to handle things themselves.
iBusiness Promoter
iBusiness Promoter claims that they can get you a Top 10 ranking for your site if you follow their plan. I am typically kind of leery of sites that make these type of claims as they often don’t offer much for substance.
iBusiness has enough confidence in their plan that they are willing to offer you a money back guarantee if they fail to deliver. That’s pretty strong and encouraged me to look a little deeper.
What they offer is a step by step guide that gives you tasks to complete and tools to help you complete those tasks. Each task is a key ingredient in obtaining strong rankings, and in order to succeed you need to follow the complete plan as each piece works together.
I like what I see so far but let’s break it down a little more.
The iBusiness Plan
The plan that they lay out for you is quite thorough and detailed but not so much that an average person couldn’t follow it quite easily. It encompasses all of the basic SEO cornerstones and explains the process every step of the way.
This review will not be able to cover the entire plan in detail as it would take several pages, but I will hit the basics and and then you can find all the detail you would like on their website.
They start by analyzing your site to find a starting point and to find out what keywords you want to optimize your site around. Once this is done they then lay out a step by step guideline for you to follow. The plan will include everything below and then some.
- Keywords – Analyzing and finding your desired keywords. They provide keyword tools for you to utilize to identify highly searched keywords as well as what keywords your competition is using.
- Optimization – They then prompt you to optimize a number of your pages for the desired keywords. They provide you information on how to optimize and what to do step by step, and you can check your progress as you go along.
- Link Building – Any good SEO will tell you that link building is critical to your success. iBusiness provides a cool “link finder” tool that allows you to find sites that are related to your keywords. They also provide an interface that will allow you to set up a link exchange or submit your links depending on the site.
- Search Engine Submissions – The next step in the process is to submit your site to the various search engines. They again provide an interface that makes this as painless and easy as possible. You can select which search engines you want to submit to and they provide an automatic feature that will execute the task. Cool.
- Rank Checker – Nothing is more frustrating than doing all this work and not being able to measure your progress. iBusiness provides another interface that allows you to measure your progress and check your keyword rankings daily if you choose.
- Tool Box– The last interface they offer is an array of SEO tools including a keyword density analyzer, broken link checker, search engine spider checker, and a host of other tools including some PPC analysis software. I tried to think of anything I might want that they didn’t provide but I could not.
This is a pretty comprehensive set of tools. I must warn you that it looks and sounds easy but you need to understand that depending on the keywords you are trying to optimize for, you may have a LOT of work ahead of you.
The good news is that even though it may take work, the blueprint is right there for you to use. I tried the interface and played around with one of my own sites to get a feel for the interface. They make it easy to take it for a test drive with a demo that showcases some of the basic features of the site.
The demo will give you a good feel for the process and what it encompasses. You should also be aware that they don’t claim that this will be a fast process. If you follow their directions exactly it still will likely take at least 90 days to achieve the top 10 ranking they promise.
This is another plus in my eyes because no matter how good your SEO is, it takes time to get the engines to recognize your efforts and I am glad that they admit this.
Pricing
Most top-quality software these days doesn’t come without a price tag. This case is no different with iBusiness Promoter, however, there are different licenses to suit your own tastes. Most of you will be managing your own sites, and thus the IBP Standard download should be perfect.
The whole thing costs only 249.95 Euros, which works out to be around $400. Some may argue that this is quite a hefty price tag, but some Search Engine consultants might charge $400 per hour! iBusiness also comes with a 30 day money back guarantee for your peace of mind.
Conclusion
If you are serious about your SEO and ranking well but don’t have any idea how to do it then this may be just the tool for you. I am convinced after following the demo instructions and playing with the interface that even a novice blogger would be able to use this software.
As I said earlier I am not a big fan of SEO packages or experts that claim they can guarantee you any ranking but at least iBusiness Promoter puts their money where their mouth is. If they fail to deliver on their promise then you get your money back. That’s not bad.
I would feel better if they could point us to a top 10 ranking for their own website but I didn’t find any keywords in their source code to look up. They might very well rank great for their keywords but without being able to check I don’t know.
I think this would offer them a TON of credibility with potential customers. If they can get their own site to rank top 10 in the cut throat category that they are in then they can surely do it for you. It’s your call and I still think it is a quality product but I know I always feel better about something that is proven to work.
You always have the money back guarantee as the safety net which should make you feel better.