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Lots of things to watch out for, and unless you know enough about SEO then you could easily be taken for a ride.

Look at key metrics like rankings (obviously), links and traffic.

Honestly, i would advise you learn as much as possible about the topic and then go from there. 90% of the industry can't provide results for a decent budget. Then of that, most of them wont provide sustainaible results.

Most SEO agencies are now trying to funnel their clients in to PPC and social media, which means they arent really confident of getting anyone long term results in todays marketplace.

If you are not expert in what you want to do , accordign to me you should hire expert for better results. You should try each and everthing. You should keep your mastery in one. So regarding SEO , you are not expert then its better to hire someone

yap , now a days most people hire SEO services , and they works untill:
1- you choose good , white hat , manual SEO.
2- They would be abit costly but woth it.
3- if do it white hat then it takes time so be patience.

contact me if interested in long lasting manual , high quality SEO services , you will kick all the way to google

Things to request when you are hiring a SEO :-
1. Reporting on backlinks they build, keyword rankings and work done (monthly or even better a weekly reporting)
2. A detailed report on what they will be going to do for SEO before you hire them (on a monthly or weekly basis)

That's about the 2 most important things. When you're a beginner, you don't want to hire a SEO if you don't know what you will be getting because most of them out there will just "guarantee you page 1 rankings" without knowing what's going on in the back end.

Hope that helps.

It is a tough one. If you are like most people and are expected to only be paying a few $ an hour, then I would advise you just learn it yourself as for that price you wont be getting any expertise.

If you want your website to grow like a real business, then you need someone who really knows what "white-hat SEO" means and how to actually do it. This does not mean crappy web2.0's which have are both weak and ticking time bombs until they get dropped. This does not mean blog commenting or social bookmarking.

If you have the money to invest in real quality white-hat SEO, then go ahead and hire a real expert. The results won't be instant but you will build your website a long term future. However if you have very limited funds and want instant results, I would say invest the money in PPC instead and learn the SEO side of things yourself. Your SEO will be less effective, but if you can get your head around some basic PPC principles then at least you won't be wasting your money.

Sign up to serpfox.com put your keywords in there. Ask the SEO man to do the work and see if what he does improves your ranking. if it doesnt hes shyte.

if hes linking you may need to wait a month or so to see the results though

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Hire an SEO, get an account at MonitorBacklinks.com. If it reports lot of bad links fire him

There are so many things here on Warrior Forum that you can learn more about SEO. If you have time, just try to learn the basics of SEO until the advanced tactics. But if you really need someone to do the SEO for you, just go to Warriors For Hire section and see their packages.

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The biggest advice that I can give you is not to hire anyone to do anything until you know what you are looking for. When I say that I mean know what to look for with on-page optimization, content, and know what a GOOD link looks like. The ratio of crap to legitimately awesome services is too skewed to try to jump in head first without knowing what you are looking for.

https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/35291?hl=en

I think Google has given great tips about hiring someone to do SEO for your site.

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