The SEO game has become increasingly complicated for a do-it-yourselfer-after-being-burned-by-SEO-pretenders like me. I’m happy to say that Dev and team at Powered by Search are the real deal. Great advice every step of the way, and excellent results. What’s been most amazing is our rapid ascent in website rankings on multiple search terms. In less than 6 months, we’ve caught up to competitors who’ve had a 2-3 year head start. When Google’s Panda update reshuffled page rankings, my site just kept surging to the top.

We are pleased to give a solid reference for Dev and his team at Powered by Search. They have lead our SEO strategy and happily worked within the budgets we have given them, consistently proving great value. Powered by Search started by consulting on making our site SEO friendly but has evolved to managing our comprehensive search and social media marketing strategy. We have tested their experience against top consultants in the US and feel very comfortable in recommending them.

Dev Basu and his team are proven top SEO professionals without the overhead of some other SEO companies. We have had dramatic increases in organic traffic and lead conversion coming from long tail search. Powered by Search also does work with many of our agents and has pleased them all with their performance.

After researching a few options about hiring an SEO and PPC company, we decided to hire Powered by Search. Their team was extremely helpful in educating us about SEO and inspired confidence. All our questions were answered clearly and a detailed proposal was prepared for us. The first results we noticed was a big jump in the ranking of our local listing. Our SEO results have steadily improved since, and our PPC campaign has been fine-tuned to generate a higher volume and quality of leads. Our monthly reporting clearly shows this improvement.

Being a painting contractor, I can understand the value of communication with our customers. It can be the most important factor for the success of our business. This is where Powered by Search really shines. Zunaira, our account manager, is there to take care of my concerns, almost immediately.If I dare have a question I better prepare and make some time  for the answer. I do not get a token response, but insightful responses that clearly show that these people love what they do. Hiring the services of Powered by Search was a great decision for our business and I recommend them wholeheartedly.

We engaged Powered by Search for an Enterprise SEO Audit of our new website. Dev and his team provided stellar support and guidance and were very open to share their knowledge of SEO best practices to help improve our results. Our industry focuses on Local SEO challenges that require dominance in every market we service. Since implementing their recommendations into our new website, we’ve seen a significant increase in Garage Door related traffic from the search engines, in under 6 weeks. These are only preliminary results and we look forward to continuing to work with the Powered by Search team.

Dev Basu and his team at Powered by Search are extremely talented and experienced professionals when it comes to Online Search – whether it being Search Optimization, PPC and even Social Media marketing. I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Dev and Powered by Search on the RE/MAX Ontario Atlantic web site, and am glad to report that their knowledge and skills and of course, lot of hard work translated into immediate and measurable exponential growth to web traffic coming towards RE/MAX site. There is no doubt I’d recommend their services wholeheartedly.

“I worked with Powered by Search to enhance my blog and gain online market share. Dev assisted in building my internet presence and put together a dynamic blog that links back to my website. Both my blog and my site are more user friendly and attractive to my customers and I expect that the SEO efforts will soon manifest with new customers.‎”

I’m am thrilled with the SEO results Powered by Search delivered for my business.  In a relatively short period of time we moved from page 2 on google searches, to a ranking of #2 or #3 on all of our most relevant search terms.  Traffic to our site has sky rocketed, and most importantly the quote requests are flooding in.  So far I have calculated a 342% return on our SEO investment in the first 3 months of the Powered-by-Search campaign.  I love the monthly reports that give me detailed information about the traffic to our site.  As the owner of a roofing business  SEO seems like something magical, but the resulting $50,000 in gross revenue we’ve enjoyed in the last 90 days that came EXCLUSIVELY  from our SEO campaign (because we have no other advertising out there for that product), is very tangible. I give Powered by Search my highest recommendation to business owners. My advertising dollars could not be more well spent.

I took my print ad budget and gave it to Powered by Search because I saw the owner “Dev Basu’ speak at a conference. I knew he was telling the truth. I trusted him. Very simply he got me to the top of page 1 and that is exactly what I wanted. No point in being on the web if you are on page 2 or 10.  Powered by Search does ‘as promised’ and more. I highly recommend them for what they do, and have also referred other professionals in my network to them.

Powered by Search is the #1 reason my website has succeeded in organic and local search. In a little less than 3 months of optimizing my website and Google maps listings, internet leads now have surpassed any offline advertising I’m doing, and I’ve canceled all my Yellow Pages advertising. I now receive anywhere between 20-30 new customers per month as a result of SEO, and customers drive up from as far as 25 miles away to my tiling store. My website also receives traffic from over 500 long tail keywords for tiles and tiling products as a result of their on-page SEO work.  Investing in SEO with Powered by Search is the my best business decision of 2010!

As a business consultant, I have spent many hours trying to find an SEO expert to help improve search rankings for my clients’ businesses. It seems every web designer claims to be an SEO expert but few even understand SEO basics. I finally discovered Powered by Search and was immediately impressed with Dev’s responsiveness and intimate understanding of the world of SEO. I look forward to working with Dev and the team at Powered by Search on many future projects.‎

Although our website was effective in generating new business, our search engine rankings weren’t as high as we wanted. We hired Powered by Search in early 2010 and, frankly, we were a bit skeptical since we had no understanding of SEO. Needless to say though, our results were very quick and impressive. After only several months, we achieved high first page rankings on Google for our most competitive terms and are confident of even higher rankings in the near future.  We also went from no rankings on Google Maps to the top position in several key categories.

There are so many companies that claim to be SEO experts and it’s hard to know who you can trust to deliver results. We were fortunate to get it right the first time and can highly recommend Powered by Search to improve your website rankings.

“Knowledgeable, quick and detailed are how I would describe Dev and the Powered by Search team. Their system works in short order with positive results following shortly there after.”

“Since implementing Powered by Search’s services our practice has seen significant growth.  Dev is very knowledgeable, efficient, professional and very easy to work with.  I would highly recommend Powered by Search’s services to anyone who is looking to improve their internet presence and attract new customers”

“Powered by Search and their CEO Dev Basu have helped me tremendously on initiating my blog as well as the strategy on succeeding in the e-market. His level of knowledge, professionalism and upbeat personality made working with him a great experience. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for an expert who knows the industry inside out and can make a REAL impact on the bottom line.”

“Our individual website visits have doubled, subscribers to the newsletter have increased drastically, and our domain is now ranked for high powered keywords such as toronto investing, investing money online”. We highly recommend Powered by Search for their services.”

Dev Basu and Powered by Search have made a name for themselves as one of the foremost Canadian Local SEOs, in a remarkably short amount of time. He’s written THE authoritative post on Local Search citations in Canada, one of the major factors for ranking well in Google Maps and Yahoo Local. Dev is very personable and has always responded quickly to any questions I’ve had for him.

“If you’re a small or large company looking for an SEO expert to “tell it like it is” then Dev’s your guy. His knowledge of local SEO and search marketing in general makes him a valuable partner and resource. I have no reservations recommending Dev to anyone who needs advice or assistance with their SEO strategy. He’s a pleasure to work with and a true expert in his field.”

“Powered by Search brings top-notch expertise of not only local SEO but overall search engine marketing strategies that are effective, practical and innovative to any client – big or small. They are great at understanding clients’ needs and consistently brings fresh approaches and proven techniques that deliver value. Up-to-date and knowledgeable, most importantly,  Dev and his team have mastered the art of presenting complex issues and tactics as easy-to-understand points that make it a pleasure to work with them.”

“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Dev and Powered by Search on a number of projects. I’ve worked with a number of local SEOs in the past, and Dev has shown to be the best SEO I’ve ever worked with. From organic search results, through local SEO, Powered by Search’s expertise and experience has led to many of our clients experiencing tremendous gains and exposure, as well as improved exposure in their markets. Would recommend them as an SEO provider over and over again.”

For 3 years Dev Basu of Powered by Search, has been a key guest speaker on Search Engine Ranking to my 3rd and 4th yr e-commerce classes at University of Toronto (Scarborough campus and Mississauga campus). His thorough knowledge of this complex topic is remarkable and he has always been able to present the key concepts in an enjoyable way for the students.