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How To Pick A SEO And What Scams To Run From - An Honest SEO Review
By Hillary Patz

When choosing a SEO, the most important step is to research their website rankings. They should be able to show you their search engine rankings for a competitive phrase on Google. If they cannot, RUN as fast as you can.

Another important step in choosing a SEO, is that you need to be sure that your SEO will be sending you monthly reports showing competitive results. Some SEO’s don’t bother to do this, which can make you feel like you are wasting your money on them.

Now, some Scams to RUN from are as follows:

*Made Up Phrases -

The key to Internet Marketing is ranking (showing up in search results) for a phrase that someone searches on. This type of scam is to “make up” a unique phrase that is easy to rank for, because no one actually searches on it, and as a result, there is no competition for it.

*Link Farms -

It’s a fact that having links point to your website from other websites, helps your search engine rankings. But, those links need to come from sites that have content somehow related to your website. Getting 600 links from a bunch of unrelated websites will not help you, and in some cases is seen by the search engines as “spamming”. This can result in your site being banned, and never showing up in search results. That’s NOT a good thing!

*Hosted Content -

Some companies even offer to let you pay them to create articles on their website with content about your business. They will put links to your site in those articles, and therefore “drive” visitors to your site. You pay every month to have those articles stay up with your links. This can get very costly!

This is just a bad idea more than a scam. See, the problem you may face with this, is that the minute you forget to pay your monthly fee, the company will call one of your competitors and offer them the pages AND resulting traffic.

I hope this article offered you some insight about SEO’s. While they are NOT ALL BAD, you must be aware of some of the dangers involved. Happy hunting!

Hillary Patz is an internet marketing guru with a desire to help people find success through BTTW. To learn more about Hillary Patz and her team of Marketing Mentors Click Here

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