Thursday, March 19, 2015

Hiring SEO company, SEO expert or SEO consultant

When you are tired doing Search Engine Optimization and still your website is not showing up at a good place in the index of Google, Bing and Yahoo then your potential customers may not know even you exist. Better search engine visibility can be critical while boosting the views or visits of the website, you at this time is in serious need of a Search Engine expert.

Now, when you go to SEO consultants you might wonder how I can be sure that this is it, this consultant or expert will get me go in web and rank me the best indexing position I deserve from search engines. Well, the questions I prepared will somehow help you evaluate the consultant or experts capability to carry out your job.

 Questions you should ask before handing and trusting any of consultant and expert for your SEO job:


 How will you improve my search engine ranking in their respective index pages?
For this question you need to make sure the candidate proposal includes an initial technical review for your website or of your website to uproot any problems that could ever effect by lowering your search engine ranking, that includes broken links and error pages. The expert or the consultant should also provide you with "on page" optimization, this is a process to make your website more search engine friendly as possible.
May I have a list of current and past clients that you have worked for or served?
This would be the second question that you put forward to your consultant or expert, it can help you to review the effectiveness of their work and strategy of their work.
Can you guarantee my website will achieve a number-one raking on Google, Bing and Yahoo?
Now, if the reply is yes then its sure your are being fooled! No one either an expert/consultant or even Google and Bing guarantee that your website will be in First rank after the SEO task is over with your content.
Do you adhere/formulate to search engines’ webmaster guidelines?
The protocols and rules are the most so you want the consultant or an expert who adheres and who strictly abides by the Google’s publicly posted webmaster best practice. This specifically prohibit 12 common SEO tricks which includes automatically generating spam  content and adding bogus hidden texts.
Are you experienced at improving local search results?
If websites are optimized for Local SEO then it should appear when someone nearby is searching for keywords which are relevant to your website business.

Will you share with me all changes you make to my site?
It is important to know exactly what adjustments the consultant or an expert has planned to make and on how web pages may will those changes flow. If you would like the candidate to get your permission before accessing and altering your website or document codes, you should ask this. Asking if the expert or consultant will use existing HTML code or modify the existing ones?

How do you measure the success of your SEO campaigns?
Those experts and consultants should have maximum experience in the use of Google Analytics to track your improvements and good will of your website search engine ranking and indexing. It includes tracking of number of links  from other websites driving traffic to your site, the kind of keywords searchers use to find your site and much more.

How will you communicate and how often?
Ask SEO experts or  consultants if the candidate prefers to talk in person or via phone, Viber, texting or email whatever means they prefers.

What are yours fees and payment terms?
SEO projects  based payment are common  and are contract projects ranged between $1000 and $7000 according to Moz’s 2011 pricing survey of more than 600 SEO firms.






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