First - I am sorry if this is in the wrong forum - please relocate if a different forum is more appropriate!
I am curently having a new site created and need pointers on what I need to do to get my site to hit near the top of the list when folks search for my product - which they might not know even exists.
I used to be able to do this myself, but it changed about two years ago or so and now I find myself behind the times in a bad way. I have my kewords and meta tags in place and I used to hit at the top of the list for relevant search terms but it all changed and I am now lost. My site has been around for 8 years and now Google will not even list my site when I try to find myself using the same terms previous customers used to find me. It's a bit irritating.
I spent several hours looking at this last night (SEO - Search Engine Optimization) and it's quite concerning to me. It seems to me that the search engines are more geared towards social sites and porn than they are for actually locating decent and appropriate or related web site content.
I have seen services offered that will do all this stuff for me, and I am leaning in that direction but I thought I would pose the question here and see what suggestions anyone can offer, keeping in mind that I am not all that swift with this stuff.
Can anyone suggest an affordable service for this or any other suggestions for my new, upcoming replacement site? I am probably more interested in paying someone to manage it for me than I am in actually making it happen myself.
Scott