Do you think that website marketing businesses can improve your websites rank in search engines?

Question

Do not spam !!!! and keep within the terms and conditions of Yahoo please only give your accounts or experiences with these companies and if they genuinely worked. This is designed to genuinely help those starting up websites or people who want to increase traffic to their sites. Give honest recommendations and provide your own sources of knowledge so everybody can improve their understanding of seo. Thank you TIM

Answer 1

The short answer is that yes, some of them can. The problem is that of the 15k+ companies and individuals that claim to be able to improve your ranking only a handful fully understand SEO and emarketing. Employing just anyone is a waste of money and to show a return on investment you have to find the needle in the haystack.

Here are some basic questions you should ask a supplier of SEO services before making any decisions.

1. Ask for 5+ references and current clients and make sure you speak with all of them personally.

2. What type of reporting will they provide?

3. Do they offer Return On Investment (ROI) analysis?

4. Can they assure you that the optimization strategies and methods used will be ethical and hence guarantee no penalties for your website?

5. Do they place a link on their clients sites to their site? (You want a NO here!)

6. Ask to see a sample contract. Check that it says 'what is' and 'what isn't' required on the clients part and details what they say they will do.

7. How many hours will they put into working on your site?

8. Make sure you will not be 'ransomed' if you decide not to use them any more at some stage.

9. Do they outsource any of the work? (You want a NO here!)

10. What results can you expect and over what time scales?

Of course a good supplier of these services will not be cheap and it may be that your budget does not allow you employ anyone good to do the SEO for you. In that case don't employ any of the other 99.9% of unskilled SEOs and throw your money away, do the SEO yourself!

If you do it yourself you must be prepared to put in a lot of time and hard work because there is no easy rout to the top. A good place to start is by finding a few top quality sites as a source of information, like this one for example http://www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php.

Answer 2

I think that if you are clever to have created your own website, then you can probably be creative enough to take four hours and learn the secrets of Search Web Optimization. IMHO these companies were necessary at one point when the web was a new way to market and people were having other people create their sites or maybe in a MLM or Network marketing they would piggyback on the main website, and the SEO's could help get their name up in a search engine. But if you're doing you're own website, again even using adwords or getting a ebook would tell you as much as they could offer you.... If you didn't do your own website and you're a technophobe then yes, absolutely these are worth the price, just shop around