4 ways to spot a bad SEO company

4 ways to spot a bad SEO company

We've all been around the block when it comes to doing SEO, but how do you spot a bad SEO company? These bad seo companies will usually follow the same suit when it comes to a few things and they usually respond the same way. The internet is plagued with bad SEO companies and below I'll go over how to spot them.

How To Spot A Bad SEO Company

Slow response time
When you're trying to talk to a company in regards to your websites SEO and rankings, you definitely want them to respond quickly. I run a pretty well oiled machine or a company and we still have a 24 to 48 hour response time depending on our current work load, but our clients understand. If a company has a 1 to 2 week response time it could mean they are not very organized, they do SEO part time or they simply just don't care to check their emails.

Perfect answers when they do respond
If you send an email or give them a phone call and they answer everything in a way that they're trying to boost up your hopes, they're probably a bad company. These "Yes Men" companies are just trying to convince you to sign up so they can get your money. They may do a great job, but their motivation is you paying them and not getting you top rankings. Money is what fuels their greed and they will tell you whatever you want to hear in order for you to sign up. If they're telling you yes to every question you ask, it's a negative thing and you should probably avoid that company.

You sign up and then they're unresponsive
If you're talking to a company and you do decide to go with them and they then have an extremely slow response time, they're probably not a good company to be with. It's sad to say, but there are a lot of people who are trying out various methods and then decide to sell it as a service but they can't follow through with the work and then go unresponsive. They go unresponsive due to the fact they know you're just going to be mad and ask questions they know they can't give you a positive answer to. This is the main reason I use paypal for digital transactions, if they a company goes unresponsive after I pay them for a service I will file a dispute and not close it until the work is finished. If you end up doing the same as me just remember that if you close the dispute you cannot open it again for the same transaction or even file a claim. If you close it and they go unresponsive again, you're money is as good as gone.

They give you a guarantee
This really annoys me because I know for sure that none of these SEO companies work for Google, Yahoo! or Bing and they're giving out guarantees to potential clients in order to get them to sign up. If an SEO company is giving you a guarantee I can give you a guarantee that they won't honor it if they screw something up lol. There is actually a loophole when it comes to these kinds of guarantees though. If the company has you give them 100+ keywords, there is probably a few in there that have extremely low competition and you will increase in the SERPs. Now you most likely won't get any traffic from these low competition keywords, but you'll have top rankings for them and now your "guarantee" doesn't matter. Be sure to give them a list of your keywords from medium to high competition and see what they say



In Conclusion:
These are a few ways you can determine is an SEO company is bad and if you should avoid them. There are loads of companies out there and I highly suggest that you contact all of the ones you're interested in prior to just signing up. Be sure they say No to a few things and they explain why it's not possible to do something. A good SEO company will let you know if something is possible or if you're just wasting money. The good ones may not get your business, but they know they are putting you on the right track to ask the correct questions and get the right answers and not just the ones you want to hear



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