The Internet is full of companies promising you top placement on the search engines for a fee. The reality is that no one can guarantee you top placement for free, and there are only a hand full of search engines worth worrying about for example Google and Yahoo combined provide about 70% of the search results and the rest are divided between Netscape, Ask, AOL, MSN, Vista, Excite, Lycos and Alta Vista. If you want to pay for placement via Google's Ad Word program or sponsored links through Yahoo why not log on to the company, create an account, and pay to be at the top yourself. There's no need to pay extra for a middleman to complete this easy step. On the other hand, if you want higher placement and more targeted traffic without paying for sponsored links or bidding on keywords, you'll need an experienced professional.
Secondly, you'll need to convert those visitors into customers. All the traffic in the world won't help you if potential customers are leaving because your website fails to meet their basic needs. Is your information easy to understand? Is your website organized in a clear and logical manner? Is your website easy to navigate?
The only way to get consistently high placement, and more importantly relevant traffic, is to focus on great titles, well crafted keyword rich meta descriptions, quality inbound links, and great content in the form of readable HTML text.
The SEO field is saturated by scams and bogus claims. If you plan to hire someone besides us to do your SEO, educating yourself will help prevent you from being scammed.