16 questions to ask your potential SEO Consultant. Get high SERP and increase PageRank with Search Engine Optimization.
Monday, January 11th, 2010Here is a checklist of questions to ask a potential SEO consultant:
1. How long have you been providing search engine optimization services?
2. Are you an individual consultant, or are you part of a team?
3. How long have you and your team been online?
4. What types of websites do you not promote?
5. Can you describe and/or produce recent successful campaign results?
6. Do you have website design experience?
7. What are your opinions with regard to best practices for the SEO industry, and how do you try to keep to these?
8. How many search engine optimization campaigns have you been involved with? What was your role for those projects? How many are still active? How many are inactive? If inactive, why?
9. Are there any guarantees for top search engine positions? (The answer to this question will depend on whether or not you choose a pay-per-click program)
10. Do you have experience managing bid management campaigns?
11. What strategies would you use to increase our website’s link popularity?
12. Explain to me how Google’s PageRank software works, and how you could increase our website’s rating. (The answer to this will involve building quality inbound links to your website.)
13. How would you orchestrate a links popularity campaign?
14. What changes can we expect you to make to our website to improve our positioning in the search engines?
15. Will there be changes in the coding of our website to make it rank better?
16. What type of reporting will you provide us with, and how often?
