Comments on: When Hiring a SEO Company, Don’t Fire Before You Aim

By: Grant Chandler

Grant Chandler — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:01:56 +0000

SEO.com has a wide range of offerings that are designed to help customers “aim before they fire.” I personally like our QuickStart Analysis, which not only evaluates your website for 20-25 different SEO ranking factors, but also evaluates the top ten competitors for those same factors. It is designed to help the customer think like a search engine. Plus, it’s only $500 so even the smallest customer can afford the help.

I will be posting a follow-up blog that will discuss what questions you should ask an SEO company. Specifically questions that will help smoke out the posers.

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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:14:36 +0000

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By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:09:05 +0000

Great article Grant! I cannot agree with you more than this. I assume that SEO.com has something in place that helps customers build a blueprint from which to act on?

By: Anders

Anders — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:46:25 +0000

I also have been promised the world by an SEO company. I believe in paying for results. If you can set up some targets that actually get hit, then I think you are delivering true value.

By: first search consultancy

first search consultancy — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:02:02 +0000

ya good article,,, it is really useful for every one…

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:18:35 +0000

Firstly I would like to say what a really good read. Nice article. I have had the pleasure in dealing with SEO companies over the years and they promise the world and in most cases they deliverer zero and all your left with is a large hole in your wallet.

I think web business customers think they can wave a magic wand and they will get tons of quality hits! That is not the case.

I also do SEO for my many online business also I write about SEO optimization on my blogs.

Anyway I am done but again good article.

Michael

http://www.business1directory.com

By: Duran seo

Duran seo — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:33:31 +0000

i completely agree with everything said here, just to mention we do not take any project under our managment without making a complete deep market research both on the area and the search results.

we even charge seperatly for keyword research which includes all of the competitions deep details.

i truly believe that if a serious customer will hold back from investing in a true research to fully inderstand which way to go, he will not be the type of customer for Duran web services.

this is a very important article.

By: Leon F

Leon F — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:16:42 +0000

Grant,
I could not agree with you more for this blog.
However, you have not put down a clear SEO roadmap so that the prospects or the customers could have a precise idea of an SEO company when they want to hire them.
Do you use any SEO roadmap at all?
Leon Fangnigbe
http://www.MLFSolutions.com | http://www.TaxMamba.com