Who Should You Choose To Do Your SEO?

There any many things you should find out about a company before allowing them to do your SEO for you. The kind of practices they use can really help or hinder your site's progress in search engines. There are a few companies that have gone out of their way to ask these questions for you, and perhaps the most comprehensive is "Marketing Sherpa" (http://www.sherpastore.com / store / page.cfm / 1759?), who have just released the second edition of their SEO guide. The first edition covered North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe, this second edition is currently North America only with a Rest of the World edition to be published later this year.

Another guide is to be found at www.seoconsultants.com . This is a directory of SEO companies, reviewed and accepted based on the quality of their service. To date, 124 companies have been accepted into this directory, and 131 were refused admittance. Ten are still pending.

These methods give you a good broad understanding of other peoples views of SEO, but what should you ask a potential SEO supplier? There are plenty of sites that suggest questions or you could use bigmouthmedia's own SEO checklist. Armed with the information in this document, you should be more than equiped to choose an SEO company.

Whoever you are inclined to choose, you must make sure they will not damage the potential of you site, either by using spam techniques, or by poor research. You must make sure they understand the objectives of your business.

In summary, SEO is an important process and should be undertaken with care and consideration. Choosing a provider is one of the single most important marketing decisions you will make for you website.





This article was first published on 11 June 2002 and does not necessarily match current events or the current opinions and views of bigmouthmedia ltd.
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