Are you a business owner looking to engage the services of a SEO provider?
How do you choose and compare different SEO providers?
Irrespective of the way you found the SEO company be it referral or a friend of a friend,
it is very important to ask your SEO providers the right set of questions, so that you as a
business owner can take well informed decisions. Ultimately it is your business and right
providers can give it wings. We have prepared a list of Top 10 Questions to ask your SEO Providers.
- Do you adhere to search engines webmaster guidelines?
- Can you guarantee #1 rank on Google?
- Who will have the ownership of online properties you create?
- What if our site gets penalized because of your actions?
- Will you share with us all the changes you make to our website?
- Will you work with my direct competitors?
- How do you plan to do link building?
- Reporting – when & how often?
- How do you measure the success of a SEO campaign?
- Anything else you are concerned about?
Let us look at each of these questions in detail and which answers will be the most beneficial
for your business.
Q1: Do you adhere to search engine’s webmaster guidelines?
To understand the correct answer to this question, you first need to understand what are search
engine’s webmaster guidelines? In simple terms, they are policies created by search engines and
are applicable to their respective search engine only.
As a business owner it is absolutely critical that everybody working on your website absolutely
follows search engine’s webmaster guidelines to avoid being penalised by search engines.
Q2: Can you guarantee #1 rank on Google?
Nobody can guarantee #1 rank on Google. You should be wary of providers that allege a special
relationship with Google.
Q3: Who will have the ownership of online properties you create?
Q4: What if our site gets penalized because of your actions?
Q5: Will you share with us all the changes you make to the website?
Q6: Will you work with my direct competitors?
Q7: How do you plan to do link building?
Q8: Reporting – when & how often?
Q9: How do you measure the success of a SEO campaign?
Q10: Anything else you are concerned about?
I hope you find this information helpful, should you have any questions related to this blog,
please let us know and we will get back to you.