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What to look for when choosing an SEO consultancy?
 
First and foremost, look for a consultancy where the person dedicated to your company project will be your primary contact.  For this reason, boutique firms often offer a much higher level of service, because you are dealing with the person who is doing the work, not someone who is hired to do it and is several levels below your client services director.
 
A key component that any SEO consultancy should have is knowledge of why they should not use "black hat" methods.  While many of these can give quick results, in the mid range and long run, they often have disastrous, where companies may end up being banned from the Search Engine. 
 
Ask for a proposal.  Your proposal should convey an understanding by the SEO or marketing consultancy that they understand the jist of what it is that your company sells or provides. 
 
Avoid any firm that makes flat out promises that they'll get your organization to "position 1 in x days."  They may or may not make good on this promise, and often it is done via black hat methods.
 
Solutions should be customized to the client, not a template that plugs your company name in and churns out solutions that are cookie cutter generated.  The solutions that your providers give you should answer these issues:

Search Engine Optimization:

  • Is your site listed on all the major search engines.
  • What are the primary terms (keywords) users are entering to find your website?
  • Are users finding your website based on the keywords your company has determined are the most appropriate?
  • What changes need to be done to improve having consumers find your site?
  • Is your website architecturally optimized, making it easier for the search engines to index your site?
  • Have you had problems getting the search engines to add your website?
  • Has your website been dropped from any of the major search engines?  Do you know why?
  • Has your firm had a recent drop in search engine rankings?  Do you know why?
  • Has your firm recently changed their domain name and now are experiencing a loss in search engine rankings?
  • Have you recently undergone a website redesign, and now your website is hard to find on the search engines?