Saturday 13 April 2013

Things to Know when Choosing a Top SEO Company

By Lorraine Herndon


The internet has changed all the guidelines as far as advertising goes. Whereas before marketing was divided into two main sectors which included PR work on the one hand and advertising on the other, now all the policies have changed.

Search engine marketing is the practice of making your service or product more visible on online search engines when it is looked for by its individuals. The web is used in 2 ways: either its "searched" or "browsed". Search Engine Optimization, or "SEO", is the main approach made use of in search online search engine advertising and is very effective for those who search. It is not as helpful for people that browse.

When selecting an seo company you need to truly understand what you are getting. Because it actually all depends on how competing websites are running their own SEO projects, no search engine optimization company will ever provide an assurance on how well you will place. Be warned though that low quality back-link building can be damaging to your ranking after the Google Panda and Penguin updates. This means that not running an search engine optimization campaign at all can be better for you than running a bad search engine optimization campaign.

For this reason it is absolutely essential to know the best ways to pick an SEO company. First of all you need to see how that company is placing itself. Lets say, for instance, that you saw the name of the company on a brochure. Instead of keying in the name of the company straight into Google, type in the word "SEO" and maybe your city or country. If the name of the business you have seen on the sales brochure is not ranking on the first page of Google, perhaps it's best to search for someone else!

How many total search engine optimization campaigns have they already run? To have a concept of the difficulty of a project you can base yourself on the mount of monthly searches a keyword has. A keyword like "purchase weight loss pills" with 100 000 or more regular searches is definitely more competitive than "belly dance courses New York" that has a scant 1200 searches a month.

Once you have assessed a company's track record you can ask the company the amount of of the work they do themselves and how much is outsourced. If the company is merely an intermediary for some low-cost foreign company, then most likely they will have little control over the project and will not have the ability to effectively adjust to the needs your certain campaign. Likewise, because a good deal of the campaign is based upon high quality short articles containing back-links, you can ask the company if they write the articles themselves or if they are contracted out.

Because there is a great deal of work involved to run them properly, great SEO campaigns are not cheap and never ever will be. Rates for a good SEO project must not be less than six hundred dollars a month. In the USA it is really hard to find good SEO at that cost. You might consider purchasing from South Africa. This is an English speaking country with good technical abilities and generally the SEO is of a far better quality than in India, which is unquestionably less expensive but rather risky.

Keep in mind, not doing an SEO project is better than doing a bad one. Give yourself time to save a good amount to invest and hire a business you can really rely on.




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