Pro Rank is in Johannesburg, Gauteng. We offer our Google Marketing services to all cities in South Africa.

We specialize in Google marketing, which includes:

• On-Page SEO

• Off-Page SEO

• Google Ads

• Google My Business

• Web Design

We first started in March 2013. We have been assisting businesses with Google Marketing for more than 12 years in South Africa.

Yes, we market all industries. We promote local businesses and international projects.

Yes, we offer a free SEO Audit for potential clients, which uncovers crucial information about their website, competitors, and keywords.

We provide 3 SEO Packages in South Africa:

SEO Level 1 = R5000 per month

SEO Level 2 = R10000 per month

SEO Level 3 = R15000 per month

We charge R750 for each webpage. If needed, we provide professional writers (at an additional cost) to edit your content.

We charge R5000 to set up Google Ad campaigns, and we charge R3000 (per month) to manage them.

We accept EFTs and PayPal payments. We send invoices at the beginning of the month. Once payment is submitted, we proceed with our services.

SEO is the organic Google rankings of your website. It takes between 3 and 12 months to reach page 1 of Google for relevant keywords, depending on the level of competition.

Google Ads delivers instant traffic to a campaign. Google Ad campaigns can be set up and approved within 24 hours, driving leads and sales to your site immediately.

Yes, we implement 100% safe practices with Google. Google’s new AI program (named Gemini) is becoming smart, which is why we only implement white hat SEO.

We implement the latest and most effective strategies; however, there are many SEO factors we cannot control, like website age. Google credits older sites more than newer sites. Promoting new websites is more challenging, as Google favours established sites. We cannot promise the number 1 spot, but we always strive for it.

We provide conversion tracking for all our campaigns, which tracks vital actions on your site, such as phone calls, leads, and sales. Pro Rank helps customers set up their Google Analytics and Search Console accounts to track progress and website performance.

SEO is a long-term investment. It improves a site’s organic rankings on Google by implementing On-Page and Off-Page SEO strategies. Google Ads is a Pay-Per-Click platform that puts adverts instantly on Google. Advertisers receive immediate exposure but must pay for clicks; the cost-per-click depends on the competition.

We recommend doing both services together. SEO takes time to work, while Google Ads drives instant traffic. It’s essential to run Google Ads while you wait for your SEO rankings to perform well.

• On-page SEO is a one-time cost. It includes making updates to your website.

• Off-page SEO is an ongoing cost. It includes building backlinks and promoting your brand.

Here are the most likely reasons your website isn’t appearing on Google:

• Your website is new. Google crawlers haven’t found and indexed it yet. Indexing can take hours, days, or several weeks to work.

• Your website received a temporary or permanent ban. Temporary bans can recover after weeks (or months). Permanent bans mean your website is permanently removed from Google.

• Your robots.txt file is preventing Google crawlers from accessing and indexing your website.

A backlink is when another website links back to your site. Google sees it as a vote of confidence. The more (high-quality) websites that link to your site indicate your website offers valuable content.

Yes! Social media marketing results in brand mentions, possible backlinks, and spikes in website traffic, which all contribute to your SEO.

Domain Authority (DA) is a metric created by Moz. It determines how well your website will perform on Google. It’s measured 0- 100. The higher the DA, the better.

• Your website will improve on Google for your targeted keywords.

• Your website traffic will increase.

• You will start receiving more inquiries, leads, and sales.

• Your website will receive more backlinks.

• Your users will interact better with your website.

• White hat SEO is practicing safe and legitimate SEO. It is more expensive, but websites maintain their ranking positions for longer periods.

• Black hat SEO is manipulating Google algorithms to drive search engine traffic to a website. It is affordable, and websites receive traffic for short periods before being banned from Google.

Yes, absolutely. Speed is a major ranking factor today. Slow-loading sites struggle to perform well on Google. Make sure you improve your speeds by:

1. Compressing images.

2. Using dedicated hosting.

3. Removing unnecessary HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

If done correctly, redesigning your site will not harm your Google rankings. Keep the URLs the same, maintain your meta titles and internal links, and ensure download times and responsiveness keep up to speed.

Keyword stuffing is a terrible SEO practice, and it involves cramming too many keywords (unnaturally) in your website content. It worked in the early stages of SEO, but now your website will rank lower or get banned from Google.

No, as Google does not like duplicate content, and websites that practice this do not perform well on Google. Furthermore, you could face Copyright infringement.

Meta descriptions do not (directly) impact your SEO rankings; however, they do affect your clickthrough rate. Meta descriptions encourage users to click on your website, which drives traffic to your site. The more traffic on your website, the better your SEO.

Yes, SEO is a smart, long-term investment. Once your organic rankings perform well on search engines, you can reduce expensive Google Ads costs.

Yes, SSL certificates encrypt personal data from being intercepted on your site, such as credit card details. For this reason, websites missing SSL certificates will not rank high on Google.

XML sitemaps provide the structure of your website to Google crawlers. The crawlers will successfully find and index each page of your site. It ensures your website will be listed and found on Google.

Long-tail keywords are keywords/phrases that are three words or longer. Long-tail keywords are more targeted and contain less competition, which makes it easier and quicker to reach page 1 of Google.

We recommend installing the following 2 Google Tracking Platforms:

• Google Analytics (Tracks website statistics)

• Google Search Console (Tracks your website performance on Google)

The robots.txt file instructs bot programs (like Google crawlers) which pages they can or cannot crawl on your website. It ensures essential pages are crawled and indexed on Google.