Saturday 24 December 2011

How to Spot Bad SEO Services: Free eBook


Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is one of the most effective marketing tactics for generating leads and sales from your website. SEO can be complicated at time, and that’s why companies often outsource their SEO to trained professionals. With thousands of SEO firms, how can you tell the good from the bad?

In HubSpot’s newest eBook How to Spot Bad SEO Services, find out ten signs that can signal that an SEO firm is not worth the money. These include:

Sign #1. Making Promises that are Too Good to be True
Sign #2. Using “Black Hat” SEO Techniques
Sign #3. Targeting the Wrong Keywords
Sign #4. Employing Shoddy Linking Schemes
Sign #5. Promising to List Your Site in Hundreds of Online Directories
Sign #6. Redesigning Your Site or Creating New Pages Without 301 Redirects
Sign #7. Focusing on Metadata Instead of On-Page SEO
Sign #8. Creating Bad Content
Sign #9. Driving Irrelevant Traffic
Sign #10. Offering a One-Time Fixes with No Ongoing Maintenance