10 Things You Should Question Before Hiring an SEO Expert

 Hie bloggers … 

If you are reading this post you might be a new blogger or looking for an SEO expert for your company site. Yes every site need search engine optimization to increase visibility in search engines like google , bing and yahoo etc . Search engine traffic( Organic traffic ) should be main source of traffic for every site because it increases reputation of your blog in all terms. Your blog mainly should target the people who are eagarly looking for topics. If your niche was blogging. Concentrate more on traffic worldwide mainly US traffic to increase your earnings.

There are 2 ways to develop a website:

1. Learning SEO and implementing on your site using trail and error methods.

2. Hiring an SEO expert to work on Your blog or website.

If your choice is 1 , you have to work more on search engine optimization for enhancement of your blog. But if you are choice is 2 , then You should choose the best SEO expert, you need to take some precautions and ask some questions to your SEO.

Here are some list of questions you need to ask or question before hiring an SEO expert or consultant.

1. Can You Show me or Tell me about your past projects ?

As you need to know about the person and his achievements in previous projects you should question him about past projects and ask him to show the results and drastic changes that he bought in other websites. Analyze the website properly or ask someone who was expert it in it to analyze blog rank , alexa rank , page rank , domain authority and rank of particular sites.

2. Your clients blogs and contact details ?

Get the details of their clients and cross question them about positives and negatives of the SEO consultant what he/she did in your blog. Ask them about real time traffic to their blog at present and make sure that they are not their friends of SEO consultant personally. Keep an eye on multiple blogs that was enhanced by the seo consultant to know the strategies.

3. What type of strategies you will follow to enhance my blog ?

Ask the SEO expert to say how will he enhance the blog and what strategies he use to improve blog.

• Submission of articles to directories 
• Social Media marketing
• Link Building Strategies
• Google Keyword campaigns

4. What are the SEO tools and softwares do you use ?

You should know about the tools they use in search engine optimization because usage of some blackhat tools for building links and content rewriters to reproduce the content may damage your blog and get into list of penalty blogs in future

5. How do You recover blogs from Google Algorithm Updates ?

Due to Google algorithm updates like penguin , Pigeon , panda algorithms there may be changes in your website traffic and your blog may loose certain backlinks. Your traffic may be decrease drastically. Know clearly about the changes that takes place in case of Google algorithm updates and ask them how can they recover the blog from Google Algorithm Updates.

6. What rank can i expect in certain period ?

Alexa rank and page rank plays a keyrole in terms of websites. Alexa rank is essential to every website. It increases web traffic and also sponsors look for good alexa rank blogs in order to expose their products on the reputed websites. So ask them about getting Good alexa rank in short time period that doesnt mean over a week but in a month or two. 

7. How do you charge (Whether in instalments or at a time)

Some of SEO consultants charge you and make money before they start work. Better avoid them until you trust them and know them personally. Its better you pay them in instalments because you can gradually see the work of the consultant and you were happy to pay him eventually.

8.Measures in terms of content production ?

 Content producing in terms of SEO agency spin the content of other blogs and reproduce into your blogs. According to DMCA act it is a copied content and it can create lots of problems in future. They should use certain necessary keywords and add internal links in between the posts to reduce bounce rate. Copyright free images with proper Image optimization is essential. They should make your readers to fall in love with your content 

9.Strategies in SEO, SEM,SMO

Search Engine Optimization , Social Media Optimization plays a key role in bringing quality and targeted traffic to your blog. Have a good knowledge in SEO , SMO and SMO to question what are the ways they use to promote using social media sites.

10.How do you measure success of blog ?

Success of blog means ?? How do they convey that blog is successfully running. Do they help in future if any problem arises in Future. Do they give support all the time when the site faces any problems. Success in terms of traffic, marketing and income through the blog is the real success. Understand all the strategies used by the SEO agency/expert.