Organisation who see that their website is not attaining the first page after a Google search may well start to look for a Search Engine Optimisation Company to help them accomplish search engine placement on page 1. This is critical for those companies who trade mostly on the internet, such as Online Marketing companies, as their search engine placement on page 1 could be the difference between great sales and porr, even average sales.

More care should be taken than just a search for such firms and then looking at the price of their services, as there may be firms who are not as ethical as others. They may make excessive claims, such as to guarantee to get the client to Search Engine Placement at No.1. Given the competition for top ranking, particularly for some clients in a huge marketing area, just getting anywhere on the first page is good enough.

The client should be sure that the search engine optimisation company is trustworthy, which could be done by asking them for a list of their customers and then contacting the clients to get their reviews. This would also give some indication of how long they have been in business and how successful they are, however in the real world there may well be a new company that is trying to break into the SEO market and is quite ethical in its methods.

One way of checking how good a SEO company is would be to do a web search to establish where their web site comes in the organic results section, i.e. the results below those that are sponsored. If it isn’t on page 1 then are they going to do a good job on the client’s web site?

How long a customer web site has been on page 1 will tell you if the SEO Company is using ethical or White Hat techniques to optimise the site content. If the client reports that they have been on page 1 but now are way down the list or not showing altogether, then this means that the SEO Company has been using unethical or Black Hat methods. These are recognised by the search engines and can lead to the web site being removed from the search index, which means that it will not be shown in search results at all.

White Hat methods give a long lasting place near the top of the organic results and only rigorous competition from other clients in the same market place should affect that listing, apart from short term Black Hat optimised sites of course.

In short the best way of finding a trustworthy SEO Company is by referral and asking people who are clients or such organisations.

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