What does a SEO company exactly do?

I encounter from time to time SEO companies advertisment. When I visit their site, they usually ask me for the domain name and the keyword I would like to optimize so it appear in the search engines.

Upon entering this information, they calculate a price: e.g. $30/keyword1/yoursiteurl/month is the price to get you in the first 5 results of google for keyword1 search and to keep you there.

And now the questions:
What exactly are they doing in order to reach that?
Are they always able to do that, no matter of the keyword?
How do they manage (they do?) to get you up in a short time?
What are they doing after you already ranked well? I mean what do they have to do for the subscription money you pay further on?

 

I have gone through all of your questions. Let me tell you one by one:

The professionals have done many things including onpage and offpage optimization. If any errors are there in your site, they will rectify it by using webmaster tools - create SEO friendly URLs - many onpage techniques implemented by them - offpage process like google map, directories, articles, yahoo answers, forum posting, press release etc they are doing by your web URL - They have also done analytics goals and target set - lots of things. And what you have asked "the time" - this is totally their headache that how to finish the task within the time period. But many of the companies have done it with wrong and unethical ways (such as black SEO) - they are not supposed to do this way. So when you have consulted with the professional, please ask them what is the process they are following and ordered them to do it in a proper way - Purely White Hat SEO.
After reaching the goal, the professional may be extend their contract by renewing the package amount - now this is totally depend on you that whether you are willing to proceed with them or not. For maintaining the KW position the professional are doing the back-up methods and working on the same KW for maintaining the ranking in the SERP.

 

Thanks a lot for the answer. One thing is still not clear. Almost everything what you've mentioned can be done by the webmaster itself. Why should he choose to pay a company for that?
On the other hand, please tell me what will google return when I will search the following term: best seo company. And why?

 

A SEO company can provide your a best solutions to grow your business.

 

You are most welcome mate. 1st of all you can do it by yourself also. But SEO is really a time taking procedure and too much vast. So if you have that much of time, you will surely do it by yourself. As an example: I have done SEO (On and Offpage) for one of my Blogspot site by myself and brought it in the 1st page. So my point is that "If you have time and patience, you can do it for yourself" - one more thing you should have the knowledge on HTML, ftp access, onpage and offpage tricks, little bit of programming knowledge and designing sense, knowledge on how the Google crawler works etc.

2ndly, if you search "Best SEO Company" in the Google then you can find those companies/website which were being optimized by the Keyword "Best SEO Company".

 

Before you enter into an agreement with any provider, you should ask in great detail regarding exactly what they are going to be doing. Request information on the methods they implement. Furthermore, if they have a website- check to see if they are ranking for competitive keywords themselves.

To answer your question regarding whether they can rank for any keywords- the question is definitely not. Some keywords have incredibly high competition and a 6 figure SEO campaign would be the minimum requirement to rank for a term such as "sex" or "cell phones".

WebDev

 

1st. OK, but I suppose that all the seo companies would like to rank 1st place in google for the keyword "best SEO company", right?

2nd. Take my signature as an example. Tell me how much money should I spend to a SEO company and how much time should I wait for the SEO company to make my site ranking on the first page in google for the keyword "domain name"

 

That keyword is a bad example- search for something like "SEO Service" or "Backlink Service" instead.

You want to hire a company that is going to be effective, right? If they can't rank for their own keywords, they clearly won't be able to rank yours. Of course every company wants to rank for competitive keywords- but only the expert SEO's will be able to achieve this, and these are the people you want to have working on your project.

WebDev

 

i'm still trying to find one good and cheap company )

 

Good & Cheap generally don't go well together when searching for an SEO company. You have to pay for quality 9 times out of 10.

WebDev

 

Only choose paid seo services, others 100% waste..., check good reviews of seo works

 

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SEO is an acronym for "search engine optimization" or "search engine optimizer." Deciding to hire an SEO is a big decision that can potentially improve your site and save time,Many consumers rely on search engines to provide information about products and services. A crafty entrepreneur might hire an SEO company to help his or her business gain first-page rankings in search engines. Since so many business owners have been realizing significant revenues after engaging in search engine optimization, it is important to understand this exciting new marketing technique.

 

1st of all, yes. All the SEO companies would like to achieve the 1st position in the Google or other search engines.

2ndly, your keyword has a competition of 868,000,000 - please find what is it's global and local search volume from adwords. Then you can predict minimum how much time it will take for reaching the 1st position. If the company will go through step by step technical process of SEO then as per my assumption - it will take minimum 6-7months forgetting the goal.

Hope for the best. Best of luck.

 

When you need Global Presence and Visibility for your website then you can hire SEO Company or professional, so that they can give global presence and visibility especially when you have online business for products. There are various advantages of SEO and one advantage of SEO is High ROI.

 

Yes they are able to do this. But some SEO companies do promotion through automated software. So beaware from this because this is harmful for website in long term.

 

Wow. So many things I have learn from this discussion.

 

SEO Company collected those data for analyzing the competition of your keywords. There are two aspects which considered for optimizing your website for better search engine ranking. Number one is the on-page of your website. If your targeted keyword is not available in the website meta title then the site will take time to come in the top position so better is adding your keyword in meta title. The second point is to find the competitor website. SEO expert check, how many competitors are there for your targeted keywords and what position they are ranking for. It will help them to provide SEO Quote for your website.

 

It aims is to make their client's site rank high or be visible in search engines so people can easily locate or find their site.

 

SEO companies just help you fuel up your site to get fired up in Google Search Engine... Sometimes you are able to do it yourself.. If you don't have sufficient time, than it will be best for you to outsource SEO services...

 

Literally, what they are doing?
Do they post on forums with keywords linking to your site?
Do they post on blogs with keywords linking to your site?
Isn't that called spam?
Do they submit your site to directories? Google does not like this anymore, so why bother? It's just a matter of incraesing the PR, which is not so important unless you would like to sell links on your site...
So what EXACTLY are they doing? I suppose it shouldn't be a secret, or?