6 Sure-fire Signs That Your SEO Company Sucks

[snakeair]

So, you think your SEO company that you hired is legit? I'm sure the SEO company owners will have something to say about this thread. Make sure you read the whole blog post from the YOUmoz blog.

So you just signed with an SEO company or you've been with them for awhile. You outsourced because you didn't have the time or expertise for SEO, but you know it's important given the fact that inbound leads cost 61% less than outbound leads and 80% of clicks go to organic results. You've also long heard the negative echoes about SEO. Just look at what some common searches about SEO look like on Google: (See blog post for screenshot)

The question you might be asking yourself now is this: how confident am I with my SEO company? Are they as good as they say they are? What have the results been? To help you make a decision with your current SEO company or your next SEO company, this post will go over some red flags that will tell you how good a SEO company really is. If a few of these warning signs are present with your current SEO company, chances are they aren't as good as they say they are.

Continued at: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/6-surefire...-company-sucks

Your thoughts? FYI, if you been hit by panda or the penguin while using a SEO company, it's best to drop them as they didn't do a good job for you.

Any thoughts on the blog post?

[Dan]

Kinda reminds me of when SEOmoz was still advocating paid link buying (through text brokers) in 2008, when Google had been against it for years, and actually stamped their foot down in October 2007 and smashed sites doing it (transparently or otherwise).

I love how what was ok yesterday is now suddenly frowned upon. How quickly people change their tunes. *sigh*

[Brave7]

The only time I used a SEO company they screw up big time when I was starting my business, and wasted a couple of thousands dollars. Since this day, I swear to myself that I will never use the service of a SEO company.

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by Natural Elements

The only time I used a SEO company they screw up big time when I was starting my business, and wasted a couple of thousands dollars. Since this day, I swear to myself that I will never use the service of a SEO company.

I used a SEO service a few times but it was them writing me an article and they was good ones that was original.

I've never hired any SEO company to make internal changes to my blog, suggest keywords, title or promote the blog...etc. I do everything myself and if i mess up, it's all my fault so i do have the power to kill my blog. lol

I just hope a few folks take a few bit's of advice from the linked blog post and be careful when hiring a company that is cheap. The cheap companys are the ones that get a red flag from me.

[seoservicesplus]

Some seo companies try to finish seo work as soon as possible, so they start black hat for fast results. This type companies only provide one time results. Yes I agree to
snakeair, article writing is good way to promote. Thanks.

[Jim Gillum]

You can never really know what "that" company is going to do...
A bad one can cause damage that will take a very long time to repair......

Quick results.......are like getting rich over night......

Neither seems to come to pass.......))

[bndream]

I have never used an seo company but I have always thought that if they are any good wouldn't their website have some good rankings? If they can't make their own site rank well how will they do it for me? I have always been impressed with cricket's website. Not only does it have a high page rank for the home page but for all of the other pages as well.

[Brave7]

Originally Posted by snakeair

I used a SEO service a few times but it was them writing me an article and they was good ones that was original.

I've never hired any SEO company to make internal changes to my blog, suggest keywords, title or promote the blog...etc. I do everything myself and if i mess up, it's all my fault so i do have the power to kill my blog. lol

I just hope a few folks take a few bit's of advice from the linked blog post and be careful when hiring a company that is cheap. The cheap companys are the ones that get a red flag from me.

Well I don't know about other ecommerce owners, but when we started Natural Elements we underestimate all the work we needed to do and had some costly try and errors.

I never find something like a full basic manual on how starting an e-commerce with stock and everything in between. There are different types of ecommerce of course which are more or less complicated to run by their structure. For example ebay store, or yahoo store is different than drop shipping ecommerce or like mine a very small retail ecommerce.

SEO for these types of ecommerce are different and for example a ebay store or yahoo store will have more SEO weight than a regular store just because they are on a reputable platform.

You have also similar platform which are integrating a marketing program like Network Solutions.

I mean SEO or SEM could be integrated in the platform with all the tools needed to run an ecommerce compared to a full independent configuration like ours.

[destinjoan]

I used the service of seo many times in my service, The SEO is one of the most popular and the best approach for the protection of our website. As the back links were established through this search engine optimization, They are very necessary for the promotion of the website and also for the communication between the user and the user. The ranking for our website can be obtained better and also traffic exists for our website which increases the ranking for our website. The back links are really necessary for the traffic and for the interaction of the users from both sides. The use of gigs will help to avoid the misuse and also to avoid spamming.




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[curier]

if you really want to do SEO as a company you will need to have lots of employes .
Even if you are really good at seo but you have only 3-4 employess you wont have the time to deal with all the costumers and in there opinion you will be "a bad company"