Hiring an SEO consultant is in this digital age a must for any business intent on being found in the Internet’s search engines. This can seem like a daunting task as how do you know who is good and who is not?
Search engine optimisation is like any other industry and like in any other industry there are cowboys. But if you use the following 5 questions in your search you will quickly be able to sort out who is who and make your decision on who to hire.
Before you ask any questions you are going to need to find your SEO consultants to contact. To do this you need to use the search engines to ensure they can practice what they preach. I would suggest using Google, Yahoo and MSN as they are the top search engines and account for approximately 90% of all UK search traffic.
You should try searching the phrase SEO consultant and contacting the people that seem to keep coming up in the top results. If they can achieve these results for themselves they will know what they are doing and you will just need to ensure they are ethical.
Now you have a shortlist of contacts you can now make contact and ask the following questions to ensure they are ethical...