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How To Audit Your Search Engine Optimization Company

Search engine optimization has proven itself to be a highly effective marketing tool, and because of its success a lot of businesses have hired individuals or companies to provide SEO services. One of the problems many business people run into when hiring these consultants is that they’re unsure of how to audit them. Like other marketing services, it’s incredibly important to audit your SEO company to ensure they’re providing you with the maximum return on investment, and that their efforts are being focused in the correct areas. As important as it is for the SEO company to understand your priorities as a business, you should want to learn theirs as well. Here are a few tips which can help you learn to successfully audit the SEO company that works for you. If you would like us to perform a free audit of your current SEO company email us with "SEO Audit" as the subject line. Email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Executive Summary

- Determine whether you have similar goals

- Ensure that their work is accurate to your recommendations and needs

- Ensure your SEO company provides regular reporting and reporting you can understand

- Check how they keep themselves up to date with Google algorithm change

- Analyze your sales numbers to see if your SEO company is showing positive results

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1. Determine Whether You Have Similar Goals

One of the most important parts of having a successful relationship with an SEO consultant is to determine whether or not you have similar goals for your company. Particularly you may want to determine how each of you defines success. If your SEO consultant defines success in a different manner than they may not be the right fit for you.

2. Ensure That Their Work Is Accurate To Your Recommendations And Needs

You know your target market better than anyone else and this includes your SEO company. This makes it incredibly important that you effectively communicate with them on what you believe are the best people to target, and also what elements of your company you would like to focus on most often in the messaging on your website.

Your SEO company should be able to make suggestions as to what keywords and audiences they believe would be best to target as well. This includes discussing which ways both parties believe all that newfound website traffic is converted to sales. When auditing, ensure your consultant is following these plans accurately by comparing what was discussed in your previous meetings to what work they have done.

3. Ensure Your SEO Company Provides Regular Reporting And Reporting You Can Understand

Any good SEO company should be able to walk you through their findings and reports with ease. Without being able to understand their reports, you’ll never have a full understanding of what services are working best for you. To ensure that these reports go smoothly your SEO company should be willing to help you understand certain metrics that will be used, as well as take advice on what types of software you would prefer to use and how you want information reported.

4. Check How They Keep Themselves Up To Date With Google Algorithm Changes

One of the best ways to determine whether your SEO company is committed to being the best is to look into whether or not they spend time keeping up to date with new SEO techniques and changes in the industry. Do they keep track of search engines often changing algorithms? Do they spend time researching, experimenting and innovating to improve their methods? How often per year do they make improvements to their service that you are notified about?

5. Analyze Your Sales Numbers To See If Your SEO Company Is Showing Positive Results

Below is a scorecard for the average B2B (business-to-business) small business.

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This is the part that most businesses are concerned with. At the end of the day, you want to know what your return on investment is, as well as which areas are you seeing the highest returns. Ensure your SEO company is able to provide you with information such as which keywords are most effective in generating sales and what amount of your website traffic is coming from referral, paid, social and direct traffic sources. These types of follow-throughs should be performed on a regularly scheduled basis (once every week, or month) to be ensured you understand what work is being done. If your SEO company isn’t doing this for you already it may be time to move on.

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