If your search engine optimization company doesn't offer premium placements among the worlds largest search engines and directories, your website will not be exposed to your entire online audience. Virtual Contractors offers placements with the industries largest engines and directories making sure that your website is positioned in the locations where your customers are currently doing business.

Every Virtual Contractors search engine optimization campaigns include the following search engines and directories:

AltaVista, a business of Overture Services, Inc., is a leading provider of search services and technology. AltaVista advances Internet search with new features and functionality for `Power of Precision' searching, News 2.0, largest free Internet news search, and Babel Fish Translation tools.

AOL Search provides users with editorial listings that come from Google's crawler-based index. The "internal" version of AOL Search provides links to content only available within the AOL online service. In this way, you can search AOL and the entire web at the same time.

Ask Jeeves initially gained fame in 1998 and 1999 as being the "natural language" search engine. Ask Jeeves depends upon crawler-based technology to provide results to its users. These results come from the Teoma and Direct Hit service that it owns.

Excite, a property of Ask Jeeves, Inc., among the Internet's most personalized portals featuring a completely customizable start page. Excite features comprehensive search tools, a popular Webmail platform and robust content and resources from over 100 leading providers.

Google's mission is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second. Thousands of advertisers use our Google AdWords and Google AdSense programs to deliver ads relevant to the content on their sites.

MSN Search is in transition still utilizing Yahoo and its subsidiary Overture for Paid Placement listings. MSN Search has developed its own crawler-based technology which has replaced Paid Inclusion and Site match through the Yahoo/Overture directories.

Netscape Search uses Google for its main listings. The main difference between Netscape Search and Google is that Netscape Search will list some of Netscape's own content at the top of its results.

Overture, formerly GoTo, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yahoo!, Inc. Overture offers sponsored search by aligning the interests of consumers, its more than 100,000 active, paying advertisers and its worldwide distribution partners, including Yahoo!, MSN, Wanadoo and CNN.