Seven Red Flags You Should Avoid When Screening Prospective SEO Company
Written by seojunkie on November 19th, 2009
In any industry, there will always be that one which stands out like a sore thumb due to its shady dealings. With the increasing popularity of online marketing, many pseudo-professionals in SEO and SEM are preying on unsuspecting victims who are only looking for an honest way to break out in the business. So before you hire any potential SEO company, be sure to read these telltale signs of internet marketing horrors.
1. Free Trials
There are free consultations but never free trials when it comes to looking for the right SEO company. If their marketing tactic involves providing them access to your site for the “free trial,” you’d better think twice before accepting, or better yet, skip them entirely and look for another company.
2. Dubious prices
When it comes of the prices of the SEO company’s services, it should be just right. You can determine this through extensive research and knowing the price range of other companies. Don’t forget that extremely low price makes for low quality services, while expensive ones are just, well, expensive.
3. Too-good-to-be-true promises
If the company promises to index your website for, let’s say, only two days, it’s most likely they’re skimping on the most important responsibility on an online marketing company – research.
4. Specific page rank instantly
It takes time for major search engines to rank websites and any company that will promise you instant ranking—what’s more? Specific page rank—is too sketchy to deal with. If you want to save time and money, go for a company that will actually deliver quality results, instead of specific, “spot-on” promises made to embellish their own marketing campaigns.
5. Search engine submission by the thousands
First, there is only a handful of search engine and a small number is considered major or popular. You don’t even need to submit to all the search engines because only the major ones matter. Plus, there is a lot of work to be done before you can even choose which search engine is right and which is not. So if the company promises to submit your website “thousands” of search engines, look for another one.
6. Dodgy when it comes to questions
It always pays to be an inquisitive client; to show eagerness to learn anything that has something to do with SEO. Besides, you must know where exactly your money is going. But a company that continuously evades your questions is terribly questionable.
7. Inside connection
A reliable SEO company is less likely to boast their connections and more likely to pride themselves in their successes. On the other hand, always doubt a company that will tell you they have inside connection to some of the major search engines. Doubt them even more if they promise you that this “connection” will help you gain top rankings.
Mark Michael Ferrer
SEO Company
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