Questions to be asked before hiring an SEO company?

What are the questions we should ask before hiring an SEO company?
1. How old the company is?
2. What guarantee are they giving?
3. How their own website is doing?
4. Few reference checks.
5. Examples of their work.
6. Do they know recent changes in Search Engine algorithm
7. Know more about their content writers
8. What are the tools do you use?
9. Why should one hire you?
10. Can you show some examples of your tracking reports?

Let me know if you have anything to add here.

 

So let's start with question 1 then "How old is your SEO Company"?

We will get on to question two when we establish all the aspects of question one...

 

AuroIN is above 10 years when SEO was pretty easy.

 

yea SEO was pretty EASY when spamming is still very effective like blasting the hell out of the forums and blogs. But now that has changed eh?

Dunno if others have some question to add but I think for me the 10 questions listed is already enough.

 

Even if without spamming, we were getting great result. It was not that hard.

 

I appreciate these 5 points.

11. I'd want to know who owns the company, their linkedin profiles.
12. I'd want to know who would actually be handling my account, their history and their linkedin profiles too.
13. I would want to know how long you've been in your current location
14. I would want to know what your staff turnover is like.
15. I'd want to know your training protocols so that I never find some idiot posting on this forum saying "my senior officer wants me to..." but doesn't actually have a clue how to do it.


Re:sarahk:
Now things not working:
No automated tool.
No poor quality human resources.

 

Anyways I agree. its a fact.

 

AuroIN has its own pages at www.auroin.com to answer these questions.
In this is thread, AuroIN is not going to answer these questions. I believe, others should not also expect answers from AuroIN to these questions.

This thread is only to help people to find the right SEO company for their business.
Sarahk has mentioned 5 points which are great. So total 15 points as of now. I look forward to get few more points. Thank you again sarahk for your contribution.

 

Maybe sarahk meant this?

 

In that case, we have got another point.
16. I'd want to know how you've responded to the increasing sophistication of the search engines and the websites they index.

So total 16 points to be asked before hiring an SEO company.

 

Good questions and answers for hiring an SEO..

Well, I would say that their work history answers all, but you have to check their true work history if you can..

 

I think old age of a company does not matter a lots..As its present work matters, how it is doing right now not in past or since past..Because The SEO techniques change as per google algo changes..So, it does not matter that if a company is providing Effective SEO techniques in its past then it will also provide same effective results in today as on the Google updates or changes..

 

Old age matters: Everyday hundreds of people opening their SEO company. Every day 99 SEO companies closing their operation. Its important to see, if the company is old or not and very important to see if they know the current seo trend.

 

But if a company is old then it does not mean that the employees are also old, may be they are new and don't know much about current SEO..SO, i think it is better to know about the work experience of employees of SEO company rather knowing about old age of SEO company..

 

Hi auroin! i think your two questions doesn't matter that company's age and secondly "What guarantee are they giving?" Firstly, Nobody can give you a guarantee for Work because it depends on many thing and most probably on Google. At last i want to tell you that company's age doesn't matter because many companies in market from many years but they didn't get result yet.

 

Anyone will establish SEO Company anytime and decision themselves SEO consultants. however solely a SEO knowledgeable with a few years of expertise extremely is aware of however and what's best for any web site to achieve high search engine traffic. thus before planning to any SEO company, ensure that they need proved expertise during this domain.