Hi, I'm Perry Norgarb, founder of SearchMarketeers.

SearchMarketeers is essentially here to help you create or enhance your website to take full advantage of the growing amount of business being derived directly through the internet. Business you cannot afford to ignore.

First, we ensure your website is correctly set up to attract as many relevant business visitors as possible (whether organically through Google-type searches or via PPC (pay-per-click) advertising as well), to ensuring you guide your visitors, using good internet and customer service etiquette, to your most wanted outcome. (Typically sales!)

I've been around a while. I had my first business website up live in February, 1995. (It was the 297th website to be registered in South Africa; there are some 100,000 in SA now). The site and business, a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) concern, has subsequently been sold, and is still going strong.

In those early days, SEO – (the term Search Engine Optimization hadn't been coined yet) - was not much more than including LOTS of Meta Tags with your pages. Heck, we even included the director's names of our competitors, the idea being that, if someone searched on their name, our website would also show up in the search results.

Nowdays the search engine algorithms are a LOT smarter, and continuously evolving by degrees of magnitude - what was acceptable SEO practise then could very well get you banned now.

Anyway, it's all about the customer, first and foremost. Not the search engines.

I have worked on contract as SEO for many sites in South Africa, including Top Billing, SafariNow (SA's largest accommodation reservations site), GraphicMail and numerous other smaller websites.

I balance work between my own sites (which generate most of my income but the least of my time - go figure), joint ventures and consulting contracts. If necessary, I use the services of several great people who live close enough for meetings, but work mainly online and remotely.

For what it's worth, I'm a qualified SEO, but in this fast paced, subtle game there's no substitute for experience.

I have also recently been appointed an authorised instructor for the highly popular SiteSell! course, titled “Building A Successful Business Using The Internet". (We are currently in negotiations with a local educational institution to add the course to their curriculum).

Anything else you want to know, just shout!

I look forward to the possibility of working with you.

Perry Norgarb

SearchMarketeers