Find Good SEO Firm/Consultant
October 10th, 2007 by Shiva
1. Does not send you spam emails with offerings such as $1000/year or talk to you on a fixed price for SEO Support. Beware of companies who talks this way - so if they have to optimize google.com they will still charge $1000/year and somedummy site for the same price?
2. If they promise results in first three pages or even number 1 ranking on search engines for specific keywords, be alert. For which, until they had written the search engine algorithm themselves, they cannot promise any such thing. Ask them whether they can list you number one for the letter “A” in all search engines?
3. Ask the firm their strategic plan and what they are intended to do with the website. If their response is “you dont have to worry about a thing - you will just see the results” and if they talk only about results are gauranteed and not explain you their action plan - find another seo person/firm.
4. No Doorway pages (keyword stuffing) or throw away domains (the SEO firm owns lots of domains and they put your link over there on relevant domain names and eventually after the work is done with you they will remove it). If at all, you can buy those domains and ask seo firm to build strategy based on it.
5. Check online forums/groups or search for that company to see whether they have web presence, and their rankings and SERP’s. As if they cannot do SEO to their own site: the same result is applicable to your site as well.