{"id":479,"date":"2008-05-05T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/what-will-you-ask-a-seo-firm\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T02:39:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T06:39:11","slug":"what-will-you-ask-a-seo-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/what-will-you-ask-a-seo-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"What will you ask a SEO firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a discussion going on highrankings forum<\/a> about questions that needs to be asked to a SEO firm . People keep asking this questions and i have already covered about this in my previous postings here. The SEO thread starter asks what is the best question to be asked.<\/p>\n

Well there are 1000s of SEOs who call them companies, 1000s of SEO teams who call them companies. So what makes a good SEO company well first research what is the expertise of the company how many employees they have, how many work full time in SEO etc.<\/p>\n

Here are some valid questions you can ask.<\/p>\n

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  1. What is the most competitive keyword your company has ranked and how long it has stayed or is staying in Google top 10 rankings?<\/li>\n

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  2. Can you explain some of the methods you use to gain ranking for our sites, is there something against search engine guidelines?<\/li>\n

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  3. Give us some of your clients who are doing great in search engines, getting maximum traffic with good ROI and is with you for more than 2 years?<\/li>\n

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  4. What is your client retention rate and success rate in search engine rankings?<\/li>\n

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  5. What is success when it comes to search rankings?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    I can imagine more but these will be on my top priority list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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