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It is not an easy task to select a good SEO agency for your company. The SEO directories at the World Wide Web are filled up with numerous entries. Let us have a look on some tips to filter the SEO companies and deal with them.
Before searching for SEO agency
Please perform some homework before starting the search. If you do not know anything about the SEO concepts then it will be difficult to list your requirements and understand the working style of the agency. You have the Internet and Google at your fingertips. Search the Web and read the basic SEO concepts.
Making a choice
Searching the Google to find an SEO agency will be difficult. You even could not trust a company having new or unknown name. One of the best ways is to ask your business associates. They might have worked previously with a good SEO company.
It is better to contact at least three or four SEO agencies without revealing your Website name. You can provide your name, phone number and personal email address (not of your Website) for receiving the rates and other information. Please remember to be completely unknown about the SEO packages.
We will advise you to check the Website ranking of the selected agency even before contacting them. If an agency does not have a good ranking for its own Website then it cannot work fine for yours.
Contacting the SEO company
Finalize the SEO company whose prices and services fulfills your requirements. You can contact them via phone or email. Please ask the SEO company about their clients and customer satisfaction survey, if they have. Obviously, if a company is working with big brand names then it will provide the quality services.
Which package to buy?
A good SEO agency will have economic, mid-range and high-end SEO packages. You can carefully read their brochure and go through their Website. Please compare the rates silently with other SEO companies and try to negotiate the package as per the market standards.
Some companies become ready to work on very low rates but provide low quality output. Therefore, the negotiation of the price should be done in a gentle manner.
Points to remember
Some companies change their behavior towards you after signing the agreement. Therefore, please discuss few points with the SEO company before going for any written agreement or paying them such as:
Responsibility to develop new pages
Responsibility to write the content
Responsibility to optimize the Web pages
Number of pages to be optimized
Payment details
Keyword Strength in an article
Rights to access to your Web server
Discussion of services like link building, pay per click, directory submission etc.
Guarantee
Most of the SEO companies guarantees the number one position on the search engines including Google. It is completely fake because there can be thousands or millions Websites in the queue to be number one. A legible guarantee should be a significant and continuous increase in number of visitors and number of queries.
