What to ask SEO companies?

I'm highly considering getting a SEO company to do all my SEO, but I'd like to know what to ask them to find out if they are credible or not.

A few questions that I plan to ask are:
1) May I see your portfolio and customer success stories.
2) What is your approach?
3) What is the timeframe of the SEO work to complete? (This is a trick questions, as the answer should be ongoing).

Anything else to add? Thank you.

 

Hi Swiftie, I have an SEO Company and here are the most common questions.

- Who are some of your clients?
- How long have you been doing SEO?
- Is it full-time or part time?
- Are you in the US or abroad (very important for contracts/legal reasons)
- How do you build links?
- Will I receive the list of links once purchased?
- Do you hand select each link/review each site individually?
- What is your ethical stance (white, grey, or blackhat?)
- Are the links exchanges, permanent, rented, etc?
- What is the minimum pagerank and outbound links on a page your except?

Hope that helps. Good luck!

 

you just have to ask the assurance of your site getting a page rank and ask them how many quality traffic they could generate for you and ask them for how long will your keyword would rank in an SERP also try to ask their former client and try to look at their site if there is an improvement and most important try to look for the most cheapest seo company you could get there are a lot of company offering a lot of promos and stuff try to check my sig if your looking for a seo company

 

Thats what you want to say away from Cheap is not always the best solution.

Choosing a quality SEO company is a hard task. Just like buying a $3,000 HDTV, do your research before you buy.

Read
http://www.seo-theory.com/wordpress/

Read
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=5196507#post5196507

Questions to ask

1. * How many search engine's do you submit my site to
2. (trick question, submissions dont count any more)
   * Tell me what types of on-page optimization and off-page optimization you will provide.
3. * I heard Google just went through a new page rank update? Is that true?
4. * How long untill I see results?
5. (Keep in mind SEO Takes time)
6. * Who picks the targeted keywords? If you pick them....Do I have approval?
7. * Are you a member of the BBB?

there are many questions to ask PM me for more details.

 

just interact with them to get all of your answers and also tell them of your objective behind the seo campaign.

Hear what they have to say and try to gauge their knowledge and see their portfolio with case studies.

also check if they are updated on latest development...

good luck

 

Two questions are excellent
How many time you spend for my seo website?
What method you use for seo?

 

What about before asking them any question to check if they even rank well for their targeted keywords?

 

I think this post will help you out:

http://seoethics.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-hire-professional-seo-company.html

 

That's one idea that I was thinking about, I was looking at http://www.submitexpress.com/optimize.html (I found them on #2 for the keyword "search engine optimization" in Google, only #2 to Wikipedia), and then have a list of their ranking... very impressive to say the least.

Would you feel comfortable going with this company on this alone?

 

Check their clients ranking.

 

Ask for some example sites and what words they have helped them rank for.

If you eventually sign up with the company ask What keywords you should target.

I have dealt with numerous SEO companies and none of them will ever do keyword research. I think an seo company should be telling you where the possible gaps in the market are, you shouldnt have to point this out to them.

Just my 2 cents