Top Ranking Company

SEO Services, an Internet search engine firm, has moved to Redlands from Orange County.

The business relocated to Redlands from Laguna Beach at the beginning of May.

President Kevin Kantola said the Inland Empire "has barely any search engine optimization businesses. It was a good idea to get into the (market)."

Kantola founded SEO Services four years ago. He has been in the business for 10 years and has a few part-time employees.

"If you do Google searches (for search engine firms), almost nothing comes up for San Bernardino, Riverside," he said.

SEO Services does keyword research and analysis, Web site usability analysis, page optimization, link-building and results tracking.

Kantola said the company's aim is to get clients Web sites that are "obscured in Google ... to the top, and increase traffic from local people."

The company said it gets "organic results in the search engines, which is the left side of results pages where 90 percent of visitors search, not the paid or sponsored area of the search engine results pages."

The company said nationwide customers will get faster phone and e-mail responses because of the move.

For the past four years, SEO Services has "gained top search engine rankings for 99 percent of customers' Web sites," the company said in a news release.

SEO Services is at 610 The Terrace, Suite 2, near Colton Avenue and Orange Street, Redlands.