Will you accept free SEO offer?

lotsofmoney said:

There is guy chasing me from quite some time. His condition is that he will do free seo for six months of website and if I see rank improvements, I can sign a contract with him. Should I take the offer? I am afraid that he is noob and may results in penalty from Google on my website. Will you accept such offer?

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I wouldn't accept it soon, will check for his works and will see the reviews also , Atleast will ask him if he has shown any ranking improvements so far.

You can try it on a test website.

l0cke said:

I wouldn't accept it soon, will check for his works and will see the reviews also , Atleast will ask him if he has shown any ranking improvements so far.

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He is claiming to be good but said other clients sites he cannot share.

NO, If you still having doubts on it. Give him a test site or any other old site to check his work.

Don't accept it.
If he wants to really prove his service, you can ask for strategy he plans for your site, try it with other seller or himself, see if the results is good, you can trust him further.
But don't admit or make a commitment for 6 months or anything!

lotsofmoney said:

He is claiming to be good but said other clients sites he cannot share.

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It seems suspicious, kindly just ignore!

I won't accept it! Nonetheless, he should analyze your competitors and make a strategic plan to rank your site if that's the case. As long as he gives me clearly defined keyword and competitor data, he knows what to do next with the site. So that if the site is just started, I'll get SEO services from him.

No way, i would not even consider, giving my website to be an experimental animal in the hands of a stranger

i wouldn't advice you to give him your site as it will be an experiment field, bacause simply if he has enough competance to make your site rank, he will probably not have the time and the efforts to work for free for six month, he will rather be busy working on other client's sites for a lot of $$$

No I won't. Nobody can give 6 months free SEO. May be its a trap. Don't fall for it!

He probably want to use your website as case study

If you still goes and he works

You can offer low contract or something if he is not up to standard

Anyone who has to offer to do SEO for free probably isn't any good...

Ai INTELLIGENCE said:

He probably want to use your website as case study

If you still goes and he works

You can offer low contract or something if he is not up to standard

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So in contract, I should mention that he can not start a website in same niche?

a different story here.
I used to propose like that, sometimes even remotely, but I provide material documents and real cases, some just thousands Impressions a day, some 8M-10M Impressions a day.
On the other hand, I do consulting jobs and take actions upon my clients approval with effort from other team players in client's company. And for every action I proposed, I give clear: Why this action is recommended? What will be impacted? What is the expectation of KPI?

To choose a reliable SEOer, my 2 cents here:
- ask his/her portfolio, any real case? let him/her show the performance diagram from e.g. GSC (a real professional must have some experiences and GSC accounts / screens capture from other clients, ask him/her hide the sensitive data, show some thing you can consider it's real)
- talk with him/her ask some basic and advanced SEO questions, or any special cases?
- ask him/her what's his/her role in the SEO project s/he's been in, how did s/he co-work with other teammates?
- discuss KPI with him/her, ask how long time it can be taken, any potential risk? any challenge?
- do NOT give full control and access to your back-end systems
- you must be the final decision maker before the implementation move to production or content got published

above just for the case if you wanted to find someone as SEO consultant or leading the SEO project, which means the person will work-together with guys in your company on SEO.
But if you want to find someone fully takeover the SEO actions, which means, you just need to pay for it, no anything anyone else will be involved in SEO, (e.g. a programmer in your company need to change coding for TECH SEO, a copywriter need to write content for CONTENT SEO), I haven't heard an agency or freelancer offers the "free" work until seeing the result.

lotsofmoney said:

There is guy chasing me from quite some time. His condition is that he will do free seo for six months of website and if I see rank improvements, I can sign a contract with him. Should I take the offer? I am afraid that he is noob and may results in penalty from Google on my website. Will you accept such offer?

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No, I will not accept this offer and my advice is that you should not accept this offer either.

This trend was popular 10 years before. Now such sellers are already wiped out because their quality is very bad. You should prefer quality over price while buying seo.

Defenitly he will create 1000's of junk links and dispear in to thin air when you receive a google penalty

miyuru2u said:

Defenitly he will create 1000's of junk links and dispear in to thin air when you receive a google penalty

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What he will get from this? He still wasted time without making any money for himself.

Hell no. He might make your site a spammy one.

kthmaxwell6 said:

Hell no. He might make your site a spammy one.

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What will he get by doing this and spending his time to ruin my site? What is his advantage?