7 Reasons Why You Should Fire Your SEO Agency!

[bongli]

Purchase the service through escrow. If there is no result, do not complete the payment. Play with them, ask for bigger packages, quotations and discount. Then complain about disappointment in results.

 

[American Trends]

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Do we have any sample for this here on bhw ?

Anyways, no doubt you are good at writing. I am a fan of your pinned posts.

 

[Deleted member 708208]

 

[ChanzGrande]

Very well put together. It makes me wish I had an SEO agency to fire. I got my eye on your banner sig pulling rep approach here. Smart as always rabbitking.

 

[Deleted member 708208]

Very well put together. It makes me wish I had an SEO agency to fire. I got my eye on your banner sig pulling rep approach here. Smart as always rabbitking.

Thanks Davers..

" It makes me wish I had an SEO Agency to fire"

hahaha damn man that made my day....

 

[Vic Sage]

How can you spot them? First thing you need to pay attention to is how they conduct business and advertise. Are they milking copyrights from famous brands? A real marketer knows you do not and I repeat do not rip on copyrights, especially if they?re from Hollywood.

Sir, I Can Rank You For A Long Time

 

[Shaunm]

I think some BST sellers got this confused with the BST Must haves in their sales graphics and are trying to get as many of them in as possible.

 

[Zwielicht]

Excellent article and I agree with every point you made, especially the point about advertising.

Do They Advertise? If Not Fire Them Over It:
Let me drop some truth to you. People who can grow their company can grow yours. Do you want some spineless business man/women promoting your company when they can't even advertise? Some people complain about tutorials gaining a person business.

I hope it gains them business! See I don't want to read or learn anything from someone who aren't smart enough to reach out and connect with people. Banner advertisements, content marketing, and everything in-between isn't a bad thing.

Let me ask you this. Do you want an honest lawyer? F*ck no! You want a crooked lawyer because you know he will work for you and push the limits. (Saul Goodman comes to mind). So do you want your SEO Agency passively marketing themselves and playing elitist? No. =)

Demonstrating your abilities using your own business is an ideology I promote often. For example, one of the services I offer outside of Black Hat World is SEO. Because it's SEO, I thought to myself, "what better way to advertise my SEO service than to show that I can rank my own site?". The best part is that for leads that don't find out about my services through Google searches, I can actually tell them to search specific keywords and watch my sites come up (as well as to show them these keywords do receive searches).

 

[Deleted member 708208]

Haha not bad at all Crusher. Should make it my avatar eh. =)

I think some BST sellers got this confused with the BST Must haves in their sales graphics and are trying to get as many of them in as possible.

You must mean signatures? I know a lot of these guys and they have good intentions contributing.

Excellent article and I agree with every point you made, especially the point about advertising.

Demonstrating your abilities using your own business is an ideology I promote often. For example, one of the services I offer outside of Black Hat World is SEO. Because it's SEO, I thought to myself, "what better way to advertise my SEO service than to show that I can rank my own site?". The best part is that for leads that don't find out about my services through Google searches, I can actually tell them to search specific keywords and watch my sites come up (as well as to show them these keywords do receive searches).

Yeah you are right on the money buddy. The only part is that some ask why an SEO company nationally isn't ranked. I think you will find a lot of them here at BHW aren't ranked like that, but one reason is the sheer cost. I think it might have been T0mmy who pointed out how we spend less on ads than big brands and pass that savings down to you.

I mean BHW packages are cheap cheap compared to off forum. Either way you have a good point Zwielicht. Demonstrating what you can do is the best way to get sales.

Cheers guys/gals!

 

[wealthpal]

Nice share mate.. Thanks

 

[girihendur]

Good points, very well explained too.

 

[Deleted member 708208]

Nice share mate.. Thanks

Good points, very well explained too.

Nice post count inflation guys, but thanks anyway

 

[LoftPower]

Great share! Really gives one something to think about.

 

[Lampara]

nice share RK! =)

I LOVE THIS: Buyers/Investors/resellers must read this lol!

No Reports Usually Means No Service:
You have to draw the line in the sand here. When I was a bit younger in this industry I agreed that no reports was an "OK" idea. Well I've learned better and you should too. Ask yourself why the hell a company you are paying money too won't give you a report on the work they did?

Oh because of Private Links? Bullshit =) Clients still can see the links within Webmaster Tools and competitors should not be able to see the links if the SEO Agency was smart enough to install Link Privacy Plugins. Only on rare occasions could reports not be given, but even in those circumstances only parts of an SEO strategy should be hidden.

So what should you do about this? Start demanding reports or fire them. I love handing reports to my clients because I know they will be happy with the quality of work we delivered to them. If the SEO Agency isn't happy handing over a report, you probably don't want to look inside of it anyway!

 

[Richlaaa]

Really good article you write there. Sometimes I talk with people what have a "SEO" service, but then they tell me they don't have a website. It's kind off strange for me. Specially when they say they allready have fix clients, so they are not looking for new ones.. Also strange because everybody want to make more money specially when the service is qualified and good. So what OP says i would definitely remember! Thanks

 

[Deleted member 708208]

Great share! Really gives one something to think about.

Cheers LoftPower!

nice share RK! =)

I LOVE THIS: Buyers/Investors/resellers must read this lol!

No Reports Usually Means No Service:
You have to draw the line in the sand here. When I was a bit younger in this industry I agreed that no reports was an "OK" idea. Well I've learned better and you should too. Ask yourself why the hell a company you are paying money too won't give you a report on the work they did?

Oh because of Private Links? Bullshit =) Clients still can see the links within Webmaster Tools and competitors should not be able to see the links if the SEO Agency was smart enough to install Link Privacy Plugins. Only on rare occasions could reports not be given, but even in those circumstances only parts of an SEO strategy should be hidden.

So what should you do about this? Start demanding reports or fire them. I love handing reports to my clients because I know they will be happy with the quality of work we delivered to them. If the SEO Agency isn't happy handing over a report, you probably don't want to look inside of it anyway!

Thank's man and yes sellers should read it, buyers read it twice. =)

Really good article you write there. Sometimes I talk with people what have a "SEO" service, but then they tell me they don't have a website. It's kind off strange for me. Specially when they say they allready have fix clients, so they are not looking for new ones.. Also strange because everybody want to make more money specially when the service is qualified and good. So what OP says i would definitely remember! Thanks

It's true that some decent services just have forms for their clients to check out. They act like their creatives on the forum
are websites and the forms are fine. That's OK really =) I know some decent guys doing that, but for a full scale agency they
would need a website and you are right about that one!

Cheers guys/gals for the feedback!

 

[Tanya2015]

I think there quite a lot small SEO agent, they are not provide report, but it does not means that you should fire them.

 

[Deleted member 708208]

I think there quite a lot small SEO agent, they are not provide report, but it does not means that you should fire them.

Yes it does mean you should fire them. Whether their a one man operation (freelancer) or an agency, they should provide
some level of reports. Some of the tier 2 stuff people leave off of the reports, but the main links/signals etc. should be included.

Size does not matter. An Excel sheet won't cost a small business anything extra but a little time. =)

 

[yuuzokun]

If saul goodman had a seo agency I will hire hm without a single doubt ! he did shit with meth imagine what he could do with DA and PA

 

[susanKelly]

Are you talking about Fiverr SEO