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The following information is listed for $50.00 for 1 year
Copy the following and send to: Jim@fghp.com
Name of Guide Service
Name of Guide
Waters you Fish
Species you fish for:
Address:
Phone #:
Business E-mail Link:
Url of Website:
20 to 25 word description of your business:
Enhanced Listing: Compare our price to what other web pages charge Currently we charge $50.00 for a combination Hyperlink (Link to your Home Page/ No frames) and E-mail link. NO PICTURE.. See section below for pricing with picture. Listings with Paypal.com Subscriptions will get priority on the site as of December 12, 2004.
This is so that I can get the billing on the site straightened out. We have kept the site going for several years now basically on new users. It is time to make some money from the site and to do that we have to have billing that is current for all guides.

Banners of 230 X 30 can be placed in the body of a page for a price of $30.00 for 1 year. Text Ads can be placed at any location for a cost of $20.00 per year for 1 Banners and Text ads will be placed at the discretion of FGHP based on the load time of the page. If load times get to high banners for pages will be refused for the benefit of the guides on the page.

All banner ads need to be approved by the site, and you should first contact us concerning placement before paying using the Subscription Service.

Tackle Stores
By right of ownership, I reserve the right to help small tackle stores to survive the onslaught of the K-marts and Wal-marts of the world. We need the local tackle store not only to be able to buy live bait, and odd items, but as a place to sell new ideas that the big guys won't try and as a place to trade ideas and get information. The fishing world will be less if we do not patronize the local BAIT SHOP.
Therefore, I will list any tackle store For the sum of $5.00 for 1 year. You listing will be on the State page where you are located and I will list you with the guide of your choice. It would help if you had a web page, if you don't I will build you one for FREE. You get 2 pictures, and Text equivalent to the Strange Bait Web Page that is located on the Kentucky Page of this site. There is a storage fee for the web space of $5.00/month. TOTAL COST $60.00 per year if I build your web page. The web page will allow you to send requests for links from other sites as well as from FGHP, and to advertise your business in places that you would normally not be able to if you did not have a web page.

Currently FGHP is ranked # 1on Google for the Term Fishing Guides & Number 21 for the Term Fishing.
#1 on AOL. Overall our individual pages appear in the top 10 for search terms Containing (Location) Fishing Guides on 48 State pages. This includes 36 #1 rankings and 10 Top 5 Rankings for our pages.
Under the search term State Fishing we are listed in the top 10 on 33 pages the top 10 on 10 states, the top 5 on 10 pages. For listings using state abbreviations (Example = OREGON Fishing) we are #1 on 17 state pages

On Northern Light under the term Fishing Guides by State we are in the top 15 on 44 states
The top 10 on 41 states, the top 5 on 30 states, the top 4 on 19 states, and the top 3 on 9 pages.We are the
top page for "West Virginia Fishing Guides" as a search term.

We advertise each state page individually increasing relavancy over other listings on the same search page.
You will find our "State" Fishing Guides Page listed at or near the top of each state page on Goguides.org

As you can see we are working very hard to provide broad coverage for each state page on the site.
Currently we believe we cover 75% of the searches on the internet for Fishing Guides, and Fishing Information.
However we can not PROVE that by any other way than by saying that Overture.com claims to cover 75% of the
internet and we advertise all of our states on their site.Plus work on reciprocal links with local state pages.

This does not include coverage on the Search Engines of our Country Pages, and the Canada Pages.
Our Canada Pages are all very highly ranked on Yahoo and google. Currently 10 listings for "Province" Fishing Guides and "Country" are # 1 and 26 are in the top 3 .

FGHP works very hard to promote each and every guide that lists with us. Realistically you should get 2 to 4 trips or charters per year from FGHP.com and 15 to 30 hits a month.. This is a REALISTIC appraisal based on 2 years of traffic and the feedback from guides on the site. THAT IS WHY THE #1 Trafficked Guide Directory only charges $50.00 for an enhanced listing. OTHER sites which are bigger, and are part of sites promoting tackle and all kinds of fishing related things DO NOT get the traffic that FGHP.com does looking for a guide. We know they are over charging.
Compare our prices, and you will not find any other site with as much traffic that charges less.
It is our job to find you business, and to that end we answer questions for Askme.com AllExperts.com and for Keen.com.

Hi Anglers!
My name is Todd Berg and I'm the owner of Into The Outdoors- a multi-species fishing and hunting guide service, licensed in both Wisconsin and Illinois. A couple seasons ago, I was approached by the good folks at the Fishing Guides Home Page about promoting our services through their website.

Having never done much online advertising and having received so many empty promises from online promotional opportunities that turned out to be shell games, I was initially a bit skeptical how some far-off web manager was going to successfully promote my business in areas well outside my geographic location. The proprietor of the site however, after giving me all the information about their placement in search engines and their dedication to their business philosophy and skills, convinced me of the possibilities and talked me into running a banner ad on their site for the 2000 fishing season.

Shortly after my banner ad appeared, I received an e-mail from a gentleman in California- over 2000 miles away- to find out about a fishing date two weeks later, on a southern Wisconsin lake that he'd heard a great deal about. Apparently, he was coming to Madison for a business conference, found that he had a day or two to spare and wanted to fish this lake. I booked the trip with him and asked how he'd found us. He said he'd done a search on the Internet, found Fishing Guides Home Page and saw my banner! Immediately, the investment was starting to pay off.. (insert one smiling fishing guide here!).

Not one week later, I received a phone call; this time from a gentleman from Vermont- who was coming to the Chicago Metro area for a family reunion, and he wanted to take his young son out fishing for Northern Pike ("Pickerel" as he called them!) and wondered if I might be available. When I queried him on how he'd located us, he rattled off nearly the same story as the client from California! Needless to say, we booked the trip, had a great day on the water with he and his son and they've promised to book me for two days in the 2002 season when they come back to town again!

Since my initial advertisement with Fishing Guides Home Page, I've booked more than 20 trips that I can tie directly to this campaign. By my figuring, I've returned the investment more than 20 times over thanks to the good selling and great follow up provided by http://www.fghp.com and I can't wait for the next step in our program. We're opening up operations in Michigan very soon and we expect a big part of our promotion to be associated with those same fine folks at the Fishing Guides Home Page who delivered on their initial promise.

If you run a guide service and you're not using their service- our experience tells us you should reconsider. There are lots of promotions and lots of empty promises out there on the Web, but this is one service that delivers exactly what they say and they keep delivering it successfully and with great leadership. I only wish every lure in my tackle box was this effective!

Haven't e-mailed you in a long time, but just had to tell you how much we appreciate your site, FGHP, and your Snook site too. ( FGHP.com has a new page just for Snook Charters in Florida added this year)

We were really astounded to find on our referrals page that you were number 5 with 160 referrals in February. We have had several customers tell us they found us on your sites. The only referrers above you were 2 sites of Google and 2 sites of Yahoo, that's fantastic advertising when the only people that can beat you are the two biggest search engines in the world.

Thank you again and keep up the great work. We always see you on the top of the main search engines if anything about fishing is pulled up. We have people trying to get us to advertise with them daily, but you never see their name anywhere.

Not everyone will have the same results of Todd Berg and Into the Outdoors. However we do work daily to find ways to bring traffic to the site and spend over 50% of our income on advertising on Search Engines and Web Sites on the Internet. We aim to bring each guide enough listings to keep the cost of advertising on this site to 5% of the revenue generated by the ads here. We feel this is fair.

I figure that every 100 unique users means 1 guide trip. A 1% return on traffic. It may be higher, but this is what we base our statistics and the fees on. I am the owner and the webmaster and I do all the work on the site. As an independent site I can make alliances with other sites as I see fit and can trade links with competitors if I feel it will result in good traffic for the site and business for the guides.

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