Comments on: What not to ask when hiring an SEO

By: Server Support

Server Support — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:53:01 +0000

Great Article, I am totally agreed with you on this point.

By: Sales Engineer Training

Sales Engineer Training — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:37:04 +0000

As with interviewing prospective employees, you can only consider any of the approaches as part of your method of choosing the best candidate. A (small) trial project gives you the best chance of evaluating a person’s capability. Then it’s results you can look at after the event rather than nice words you hear before they have done anything for you.

By: يوتيوب

يوتيوب — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:08:05 +0000

Very good point about being educated! I think it is very important for a client to understand the basics, they then allow the SEO firm or consultant to actually do their job

By: dubai properties

dubai properties — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:53:11 +0000

Its very informative
I was planning to hire SEO specialist

By: seony

seony — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:38:21 +0000

Hi David, I own a SEO company and you are right about what is shown to the potential clients. But, I will add that the Internet Marketers WILL NOT sell an ebook talking about their failures.Yes, they may mention it, but the title is not gonna be “How I lost $6.567 dollars in PPC in just 14 days!Yes you read right in just 14 days!And I will teach how you can copy my system and start losing money today!” I don’t think the conversion will be good for this product, anyone?
David, thanks for your article. All the best. Gilson

By: Shri

Shri — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:31:04 +0000

That’s a very good point. I like what you said in your article. But what you cannot avoid sometimes is the “virtual trust” between you and one you are hiring.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:49:13 +0000

Im gonna have to disagree dude. I always ask how they build thier sites and have them show me proof before I hire them. I have people blow smoke up my ass too many times.

By: Old Welsh Guy

Old Welsh Guy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:42:00 +0000

It is a real difficult one this. David is right though when he says ‘talk to them’ it works both ways. Often I get to speak to them and realise we are not a good match. If they try to beat me down on price, I just know they are going to want to pay as little as possible and want a whole lot more than agreed.

I have a couple of clients who don’t mind me passing out their site as referrals (I have made them a lot of money after all). But they got a bit fed up with people ringing them up to talk through things, so asked me to simply place a note on their website saying ’seo by old welsh guy’, this allowed them to confirm I worked for them, and then people can see their results from rankings and traffic etc.

I don’t work for competing businesses anyhow, so it isn’t an issue.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:14:38 +0000

Very good point about being educated! I think it is very important for a client to understand the basics, they then allow the SEO firm or consultant to actually do their job…

By: Hanz

Hanz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:14:35 +0000

Ahh… very good idea for new starter… I think this can help us before hiring an SEO expert..

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