How to find a SEO optimizer for your site?

So, your site is made up, the developers have already finished their work and you became a legally competent owner of one more Internet site. After all congratulations of your partners, relatives and friends the first question to arise is how to make your site being listed in the first lines of the search engines. If you have no time to learn the foundations of SEO art here comes another issue – where to find a SEO optimizer. Let’s consider this problem together.

Where to search?
First of all let’s consider where to search for a SEO specialist. Surely, there is a great number of places where you can find a super specialist while sipping your beer but let’s systemize all the search directions to make the search even more effective.

Ask your friends: It is always effective. If you acquaintances advise you to choose some specialist sometimes a close acquaintance with the specialist have a special influence on the business relation and that influence is not always a good one.

Employment agency: It is good variant especially if you have already tired with the search of the necessary specialist and want to get a really talented and qualified employee.

Freelance websites: A great choice, if you search for the ratio price-quality. Though you should be prepared that selecting a specialist from a great number of offers you will waste a lot of time.

Forums: The specialized forums for the SEO specialists are the best place for your search. Though here you should be prepared that the specialist will make a good money on you like on a newbie.

Internet search: Having make a query in Google you will surely find thousands of offers. Though here you should keep in mind that all the owners of the sites that can be seen on the first pages have once paid a pretty penny to be listed there, and that means that their prices will be higher that the usual ones.

Blogs: This category can also be helpful. Ask the blogger whose blog you read whether he or she wants to work for you. May be he/she would agree or advise you somebody who could help you.

What to ask?
Having defined the best place for search it’s high time to start the hunting for the SEO specialist. You have collected a great number of offerings from various sources and now it is necessary to interview the claimants. How to do it? We’ll try to provide you with the basic advices.

Cheap does not mean quality:
This saying will help you in making the best choice. You should understand that optimization expenses are also a part of your budget. The costs can be classified as follows: budget for links, budget to pay wages to the optimizer who will buy those links and budget for the optimization of the site and its content. So, you should note that the cheapest offers are likely scam and you should eliminate them from the very beginning. Keep the average price and you won’t lose.

Operation methods:
Today there is a great variety of sources devoted to the methods of Search Engine Optizimation, so the ways optimizers promote their sites are not a secret anymore. If you optimizer conceals his or her method, it means that probably he/she uses some black methods and your site can be excluded from the search engine system anytime.

Ask about the experience:
It is very important part of the interview. Look through the optimizer’s portfolio and ask him/ her about his/her successes and failures. Learn more about the person whom you are going to trust your site. Basing on the portfolio provided you may contact the former employers of the optimizer. It happens so that the portfolio is a fake one.

Test in proactive:
Ask the optimizer to analyze the site, and ask what he/she can do within the budget provided. The analysis should be precise, detailed, with definite aims and terns. And surely it should be realistic.

Partnership prospects after the first month:
This issue is very important. Usually the optimizers have to do the most part of their work during the first month. Then everything becomes easier and very often the optimizer just adds some new links that takes only a few minutes. So, here it would be rational to ask about the discount the optimizer is going to provide you after a month of work.

Report on the work done:
Optimizer should compose you the reports on the work he/she have done. Ask him/her about the form of the reports, the counters used and how detailed will his/her report be. Set the report periods and ask for an example of the report from the previous project.

Learn about the work guarantees:
SEO optimization, alike any other kind of work should have its quality indices and guarantees. Set the terms of result checking and make a list of the requirements to the optimization.

After interview usually comes a question – freelancer or agency? Please note that there is simple rule: freelancer provides no guarantees and the agency always provides and risks losing its reputation as a minimum. From the other hand freelancer is always much cheaper than an agency. And the main thing is that you’ll need to waste a plenty of time to find a good and reliable freelancer.

Having made a decision to begin searching for a SEO optimizer and considering the information that can be learnt in this article one shouldn’t ignore any item listed above. To make a full picture of your future employee try to learn from him as much information as it possible. Several hours spend on the interview may save you a plenty of time, nervous and money in the future.

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