Comments on: 15 Questions You Should Be Asking Your SEO Agency

By: Tramontina Cookware

Tramontina Cookware — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:51:01 +0000

A great list you posted here!
Sometimes, I just do not really think about these questions when I want to get SEO agent.. I agree with some ofother comments for number 5 as I also imagine that the agent must be very reluctant to reveal the details of their clients. But for the rests of the questions, they make perfect sense that we really need to forward the agent these question if we aim to achieve the best result. Anyway, appreate it for sharing the knowledge. Thanks.

By: Jamaal Muckenthaler

Jamaal Muckenthaler — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:14:14 +0000

OK furry muff ;)

By: Mike Schmitz | link building service

Mike Schmitz | link building service — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:25:34 +0000

Great stuff. All of those are super important questions to be asking. Because if the link building service you are using is also working for your competitor, isn’t that somewhat counter productive?

By: Link Building Guru

Link Building Guru — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:59:08 +0000

Your blog looks nice, however it would be better if you can use lighter set of colors as well as a professional design. This will ensure that a lot more readers come to check it out.

Informative post by the way!

By: Colin Hall

Colin Hall — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:09:26 +0000

I would also advise that the client should always arrange staged payments, coinciding with the staged results. Also ask for assurance that the seo will not pull the plug after the contract ends.

By: high rank

high rank — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:24:25 +0000

This is classical in terms of google. Naught looks to bother on them compared to that.

By: Ali Nasir

Ali Nasir — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:58:20 +0000

I work as an Internet Marketing and I found these questions very helpful, which may be asked from clients.

By: Renier

Renier — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:14:59 +0000

I will say the most important one is Research your competition.

Then establish a stradegy and work and monitor and see what works best.

Great post I bookmark this.

By: Johnmilton

Johnmilton — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:45:56 +0000

Hi Kevin..
The questions which you have mentioned in your article are nice and would be really helpful when hiring an SEO agency,all are logical and good, But i would not agree with the fifth one as no company could be able to explain that.The best way is to go through the agency site and if it is listed in first three pages of the search engine then its of sure that they know their work.
Anyways nice post, thanks for posting could be of real help for many.
John..

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By: Davey Smith

Davey Smith — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:42:01 +0000

How about “am I likely to make a Return On Investment from this SEO campaign”? How many large corporations are making a pure ROI from the search work?

By: Or Hillel

Or Hillel — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:49:58 +0000

Another question can be: Will you do structure changes in my site?
It’s very importent for alot of clients…

By: John

John — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:52:14 +0000

#10 & 12 questions are most compelling.
Often – it is seen that some firms offer guaranteed top 10 results which within a short time-frame and to me it always looks suspicious. While proper white-hat SEO can certainly bring good results, it would need a sustained campaign over a good period of time. So, beware of firms guaranteeing top results within short time. :)

By: Jag

Jag — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:43:33 +0000

Good questions but the 5th one is little hard to explain :)

By: Milind Mody

Milind Mody — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:13:14 +0000

Kevin, this is a nice list. I like the fact that the list of questions are logical.

I personally would not have kept question 11. The reason being – client should not ask this question. They should hear the pitch of SEO Agency.. and if they include statements like special relationships.. then avoid them. No need to ask them this question :)

And for Question 7, I would also ask what is the average response time (for email, Telephone or instant messenger).

Jeet,

Its a myth that all good SEO companies need to rank for the keywords you have given. I know a few people in this industry who do not even have their own “business” website and hardly blog. But they can give any SEO individual/ company a run for their money. I would strictly go with Client References, testimonials or if needed a call to few of the agency’s clients.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:58:34 +0000

Another good test is to search for “yourcity SEO” and see were they come up. If you don’t find them until page 5, well then….

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By: Darren Moloney

Darren Moloney — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:09:42 +0000

Great post and much needed. Unfortunately some clients want the comfort of guarantees and the benefit of a one off SEO project fee so allowing rogues in to take advantage of the ignorant. It’s up to us as ethical practitioners of SEO to educate our audience, network sphere and potential customers even if it means there is a risk of losing that business for being upfront and transparent about our services.

By: D. A. Shaver

D. A. Shaver — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:00:40 +0000

I think the three most important ones are who are your other clients, how long have they been clients and what is your phone number. You can check on the clients and see how their web site is doing; it would nice it there were some way to verify that they actually are clients. This is why I put a small text link at bottom of the page. The telephone number is a good double check that they have an office and pay their bills. Of course if the first two check out the third one may not be necessary.