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Robby · 1 year ago

Nice article, and very true!

Tom · 1 year ago

Great post Josh.

It is amazing how people who will contact you about advertising will then berate you for charging too much. It is not like you cold called him!

Joshua Dorkin · 1 year ago

Hey Tom! Thanks for the comment. I'd love to find out what they are charging their customers for their top quality service. I'll bet it is not cheap!

Essex · 1 year ago

SEO companies all seem to be a little bit "smoke and mirrors" to me, so this is a good post.
I tend to go with the rule that if a SEO company contacts YOU, then they are possibly not that good.
A good SEO company will have plenty of clients reaching them through good results and word of mouth advertising.

Joshua Dorkin · 1 year ago

I agree with you completely, Essex. In this case, the company contacted me because they were trying to sell a link on one of my sites, but if they are out cold-calling to get work . . . RUN!

Business Card Printing · 1 year ago

An SEO company without seo in their META NAME="KEYWORDS”... lol

Liam Brennen · 1 year ago

wow, that is unbelievable, I actually think that you are being too nice for not publishing their name. It may help others to know who to avoid (even though you gave great tips on how to avoid!)
But yeah, wow, they are ridiculous. . .
Cheers!
Liam

Misa · 1 year ago

Very true, If you want your keyword to rank in SERP, Start doing SEO..

inbound call center · 1 year ago

SEO is a very in demand jobs now a days. If you want to get more traffic and be no.1 in search engine, try SEO..

Joshua Dorkin · 1 year ago

I hear ya, Liam . . . I guess they didn't piss me off enough!

tax lawyer · 1 year ago

Wow. i think the SEO companies should read the post more then the client.

Caro Prangenberg · 1 year ago

I know, it sounds like a simple question, but someone who doesn’t know what an SEO professional does is likely to get screwed by some con man looking to rip him off. Most people will do a few minutes of research and find out that people who help others with SEO exist to help others climb in the search results of the search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, etc.

punkypaige · 1 year ago

Finding meta tags is good strategy to hit the competitors. nice post!

Jillian · 1 year ago

Hi,
The blog is interesting and also helpful, you have given a good idea on hoe to choose a best SEO company. It can help people on what parameters should they select a SEO compant.

Don · 1 year ago

Great tips on choosing an SEO service. I have to laugh every time I see a Web Design company offering SEO services as an "added" bonus. Their catch line is usually something like "We'll submit your website to hundreds of search engines"

Wow, where do I sign up!

Don

Tracy Benungski - Internet bus · 1 year ago

Should be an eye-opener for such persons. Nice of you not to have revealed the names but that would have helped others to be cautious!!

Jeffrey Garcia · 1 year ago

I tend to go with the rule that if a SEO company contacts YOU, then they are possibly not that good. A good SEO company will have plenty of clients reaching them through good results and word of mouth advertising.

Azrael · 1 year ago

Most SEO experts only squeez money from people with offline business that aren't webmasters and just want some promotion through their webs.
But there are still some SEO experts which bring You significant traffic and money spend on SEO brings some serious traffic effect.

gina · 1 year ago

I'm glad I do my own SEO. I can't imagine how you would hire someone to do something that you don't understand, and therefore can't check up on. I have been subscribing to Planet Ocean for a long time, and it has helped a lot. Most of the time when SEO people call, they want to submit me to search engines and direct new links to me. But it's always some sales person calling who doesn't even understand SEO, so you can't really ask them any questions. I think the best thing to do is learn it yourself, BEFORE you have your website designed. Most sites can't be optimized because they were designed wrong in the first place. For instance, your files names have to be right. If your designer calls you product page "products.htm" instead of truck-tires-for-sale.htm, you can't easily change that later.

Bijan Akhavan · 1 year ago

I agree with you completely, Essex. In this case, the company contacted me because they were trying to sell a link on one of my sites, but if they are out cold-calling to get work.

Kristian Liebrand · 1 year ago

SEO companies all seem to be a little bit “smoke and mirrors” to me, so this is a good post. I tend to go with the rule that if a SEO company contacts YOU, then they are possibly not that good. A good SEO company will have plenty of clients reaching them through good results and word of mouth advertising.

Blogging tips · 1 year ago

That was one of the clearest and straight forward posts about SEO companies i have ever read. I have been burned a couple of times from NOT following your steps

Alex · 1 year ago

I think this is awesome tips on choosing an SEO service. I have to laugh every time I see a Web Design company offering SEO services as an “added” bonus. Their catch line is usually something like “We’ll submit your website to hundreds of search engines” helps to know more information about SEO company,

R4DS · 1 year ago

There is good information to provide SEO instruction in the post very nice!

Poker Strategy · 1 year ago

Great post! I will certainly print this for everyone at work to review. Keep them coming!

Blogger Tips · 11 months ago

What I think is funny is SEO providers that really promote themselves as being the best yet they have no PR ranking and are nowhere to be seen on google because they only have a few pages indexed and maybe a couple hundred inbound links. LOL .. those guys are everywhere too

Celeste · 11 months ago

As i would like to increase knowledge over SEO it helps me a lot..SEO technology is very important and with proper use, you can rocket your online business success level..

Michael Kramer · 11 months ago

It's funny how many people and companies act like they know SEO, but in reality since people have so little knowledge about it they don't know when they're getting scammed.

Lisapeary · 11 months ago

There are a number of very qualified professionals in business today that can aid you in coming with the best SEO.

Jimmy - Work From Home Informa · 10 months ago

I think SEO companies are useless.You can find the information easily on the internet and it is simple to do the changes required to your site.The most important thing is to write quality content and build links back to your site.

SEO Lebanon · 9 months ago

beautiful post thank u ...hope alot of people searching for an SEO for their website read that post before doing their search...

Thank you again for that post!

W.D.

Josh · 9 months ago

Very good points. Fortunately, I know enough about SEO that I can handle most of this myself, but if I ever do need to hire one I will certainly keep this in mind.

Oliver Nassar · 9 months ago

I've worked with a few agencies, and I find that most reputable ones will offer up samples of their work via before and after placements for a client they've worked with.

I've then worked with archive.org to determine their changes before and after.

Helped for us.
Oliver Nassar

Photoshop Tricks and Tips · 8 months ago

Can't say that I really trust SEO companies.

I have had some do nothing for me after paying.

Gary

SEO · 8 months ago

Nice article. I think before hiring a seo company, you should have some basic knowledge of SEO else there is 80 % chances to be cheated.

seo company · 8 months ago

Great post! One of the things that really frustrates me is that I’ve been finding that several of the blogs listed in “do follow” directories either don’t exist anymore or aren’t really “blogs” per se that allow comments.

mahi · 7 months ago

thanx for this post

Franck Silvestre · 7 months ago

Thanks for giving such great tips although for most times I still don't quite understand what they really do for you so I never used them. I heard that Google does not value meta tags as they used to

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It’s funny how many people and companies act like they know SEO, but in reality since people have so little knowledge about it they don’t know when they’re getting scammed.

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SEO · 1 month ago

Very good post. It really helped me a lot.I would like to thanks that master brain who make all this for the readers like me. I really like the tips you have given..Thanks a lot.Looking forward to reading more from you.Keep blogging.

minibushire · 1 week ago

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