How can a site owner recognize a competent SEO? - Random chit-chat

Message from discussion How can a site owner recognize a competent SEO?

JohnMu

View profile

More options Jul 1, 5:58 pm

From: JohnMu

Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:58:27 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Tues, Jul 1 2008 5:58 pm

Subject: How can a site owner recognize a competent SEO?

Forward | Print | View thread | Report this message | Find messages by this author

Hi everyone!

We just added something to the blog asking for feedback on our page
about finding an SEO: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-are-your-seo-...

I'd love to get your feedback here as well!

Suppose a webmaster were to come to you and ask for advice on finding
someone who can help optimize his site for search engines. How would
you recommend that they get started? Where should they look for SEOs?
Which questions should they ask? How could they recognize competent
(or incompetent) SEOs?

I know that in some cases it's a good idea to learn all of this
yourself, but in many situations it's just not possible or they just
need help to make sure that things are right.

Looking forward to your feedback!
John

PS The updated help center page is at
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35291

Forward