Things to Consider When Choosing an SEO Company or Consultant

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If you are business owner it can be a daunting task trying to figure out the best SEO company for your business. There are so many choices and it seems like everyone is doing SEO these days. The question is who do you hire and which companies can you trust with your success? We will give you a few tips or things to look out for when choosing a SEO service.

Guarantees - Run the other way. While guarantees are nice, and they give you that warm and fuzzy feeling that you are safe, there is something wrong when someone says they will guarantee what someone else will do. In this case it is Google. I can not guarantee I can get someone on page 1 anymore than the next guy because I am not Google and I can not control what they do. Neither can anyone else. However with that being said, most people can show results from clients they have helped, and got rankings, so this is what you should look for in considering an SEO company. The results should speak for themselves.

Ethical tactics - There are a lot of different strategies for SEO. Some include on page optimization but 80% of the SEO campaign should be done off page, meaning links pointing back to your site from another site. There are many ways to do this. You can build web 2.0 properties with a decent page rank on sites like Weebly, Hubpages, Squidoo, etc. Also writing articles and submitting them to article directories are another great way to get natural links pointing back to your site. I am not going to go in-depth here on strategy, but the point is the above listed techniques are considered "white hat", meaning they have stood the test of time, and Google likes this approach. Where you have to be careful is finding a company that will give you too many links too quickly, and using strategies that could seem unethical or also known as "black hat". These services are often used to gain page rank quickly by "fooling" the search engines. Chances are you will have to ask the company you are considering if they are using these techniques, and hope they are being truthful with you.

Reporting - You are a customer paying for a service, so you want to make sure the company you chose has regular reporting feature, so that you know you are getting what you pay for. It could be something as simple as a monthly report listing all the links they created, or it could be a complete analyst of the campaign. You should at least be able to see your rankings for the major search engines on the keywords you are targeting, plus a list of activity or link the company has been doing for you over the last month. Beware of company that does not give you reports, it is the only way to see what they are doing for you.

In general what you are looking for is company you can partner with long term and build a relationship. In order to do that you have to find someone that is ethical, truthful and has your best interest and success at heart.

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