Hi, While searching the internet i came up with this site where i find some interesting questions for SEO. And i would like to request answers for these question. Title: Top 10 Things to Ask Your Potential SEO Company The Questions are: 1. What type of techniques do you use to acheive rankings? 2. What type of risk is involved with this method? 3. What will happend if our relationship is dissolved? 4. Can you show me examples of past work? 5. What was the client’s ROI? 6. What type of volume increase in traffic is reasonable to expect? 7. How long until I start to see results? 8. What would you expect from OUR end to aid your work? 9. What were some of your top search ranking acheivements? 10. Do you offer any other internet marketing services to supplement your SEO offerings? From the site: http://www.stuntdubl.com/2005/03/24/top-10-things-to-ask-your-seo-company/ Regards.
Honestly those questions come AFTER you consider what they are offering you. Take a look at what they want to give you before even asking them anything, consider this prior to going the next step and asking those questions: *Meta Tags. It's the 21st century. Meta tags are dead. Any SEO company still talking about meta tags is either asleep, or hoping that you are. *Search Engine Submissions Search engines don't want you to submit, they want to find your pages by following links from other websites that they have already indexed. And if you must submit, use the free Google or Yahoo XML submit, and do it yourself. Don’t make a rookie mistake. *Get Top-10 Rankings In Over 200 Search Engines I always smile when I see this...I just want to know what kind of search engines these are, and what kind of searcher actually uses them. I only know of a few search engines that matter. *Content Stuffing/Article Submissions This is the latest money-wasting SEO gimmick making it's rounds. Search engines don't want the same spammy articles indexed over and over again. Duplicate content penalties kill off rankings for article spam. *Listing Their Customers. Publishing customer’s names on a SEO website is just like painting a bulls-eye on the customers forehead. *Warranty. Is there a warranty on their work? *Qualifications. Have you noticed that many web designers say they are also internet marketing or SEO experts? That’s like saying the mechanic down at the local garage is an expert at rebuilding an engine. Maybe so, but does he build racing engines, the kind that win the Daytona 500? Ask them: What competitive terms does your own website rank at the top for? Pay attention – and don’t get fooled by poorly targeted or obscure keyword phrases that nobody searches for. *Overnight Success. It can take a while, a few months even, to see big improvements at Google. Yahoo, MSN and others take at least one month. Beware of SEO's that enroll you in a PPC or a “paid placement†campaign without being clear about ongoing costs and a full disclosure of how they make their money. Keep in mind that if it sounds too good to be true, it may very well be. John Guanzon