"SEO consultants are the male nipples of media" - Mike_FTW
Before you fork over a bunch of dough to an "SEO Consultant", keep this stuff in mind:
- the only guarantee in SEO is that you can't guarantee anything
- google is in the process of making significant changes to searching, putting emphasis on semantic searching rather than keyword searching. You may end up paying a lot of money for keyword search optimizations, only to find that the methods you paid for aren't necessarily obsolete, but no longer optimal.
In my estimation, somewhere around 5-10% of SEO consultants are legit. You want somebody who's been doing it for awhile as their primary source of income. There are a lot of guys that do it on the side and don't really know much about it.
I don't know SEO Mike, he seems to have been doing it a long time, but the decade-old tech his site is runnning on is a big red flag for someone who needs to be on the cutting edge of the web to stay competitive.
Beware of anyone offering concrete promises (like you'll be on the first page of results in a month or something) without promising that you'll get your money back if they don't deliver.
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