Choosing Professional SEO Services, Companies

Organic search engine traffic is always the most valued traffic which can rocket your online earnings. Achieving top positions in search engine results for very common and highly competitive keywords is a hard task and you can not compete to professionals with amateur efforts. So, you will need definitely professional seo services for high efficiency.

Building only a search engine friendly website today is not enough due to high competition. You should also get backlinks by time to your website pages. Using the help of professional SEO firms, you can achieve this according to white hat rules without taking punishments from search engine for getting backlinks massively.

A real professional seo service is never waste of money. Think in the long run. Make your investments for the future of your websites. If you can manage to get first page results for a few popular keywords related to your field, you will see continuos income from online business.

Most experienced SEO service companies have special teams of content writers, linkbait experts which can provide very useful results because of the years of experience in SEO business.

A professional SEO firm never goes for trial and error techniques for their clients and are able to evolve into latest technological developments and requirements of new Internet world.

A boosted SEO service generally includes website analysis of competitors, comprehensive keyword research through kei, meaningful search engine submissions, submissions to paid directories or the directories of the SEO companies, opportunity cost analysis and maybe the future/potential keyword market research.

If you don't have enough knowledge on how to choose a professional seo firm, please read these SEO books. They will give you a strong base before starting negotiating with potential companies.

Top Utah SEO Firms

In my preview review of best SEO firms, I had written about Dallas SEO firms. Now, I want to continue with my selected list of Utah SEO firms.

97th Floor : This particular Utah SEO firm deserves to be listed on #1 place because of their excellent achievement of PR 6 Google Page Rank and high Alexa ranking around 90,000 (by July 2009). I especially evaluate SEO firms according to these two important factors since a successful SEO company should prove first with their own websites. Anyway, their main professional fields are organic search engine optimization, company reputation management and social media marketing. You can check their clients list and SEO tag cloud (a list of keywords they rank well in search engine results) at their website.

Social Community : There is an informative blog with interesting articles but I think they should update more.

Request Free Quote : There is a form to send proposal but it is not obvious that it is a free quote or not.

Company Website Design : Professional clean design and easy navigation.

MWI : Having a nice Google Pr 4 and 300,000 Alexa ranking, this company operates since 1999 in SEO, Web design and Search Engine Marketing fields. MWI company clearly states its pricing policy on their website. For example, their SEO solution starts from $2,000 monthly. They also provide SEM with typical monthly prices of $750 to $1,500 and website design starting from $15,000. I think SEO price is competitive but personally think that $15,000 for a website design is expensive without a database driven system.

Social Community : A blog exists but this is also rarely updated. I think SEO companies should communicate more with clients using blogs.

Request Free SEO Quote : Yes

Website Design : Very attractive and clearly reflects what they can offer to potential clients

Utah Web Services : UWS firm operates in a wide range of services including SEO, SEM (Search Engine Marketing), Web design, Database programming, SEO content writing, reputation management and blogging. Their website has Google Page rank 4 and Alexa rating 300,000. They have also a nice client and portfolio list. I liked the seperate section of SEO case studies. You can see the keywords they achieved to put to top search engine results.

Social Connection : A blog which is rarely updated as well.

Free SEO Proposal : There is a form to contact them.

Website Design : Interactive and informative. I would prefer a more fresh look but still it is professional.

Top 4 SEO Blogs to Follow

SEO is not a one time task but ongoing process. If you don't know the latest changes, techniques and trends in SEO world you can danger your page positions in SERPs. I have listed my top list SEO blogs which I have subscribed to their RSS feeds and regularly read.

#1 SEOmoz.org : Website manages to sit on my top SEO blogs list with their free, pro tools and very active blog written by different authors.

#2 Daily SEO Blog : Mani Karthik writes regularly with interesting SEO content. Especially, his toplists to improve blogs in search engines are really useful.

#3 Matt Cutts' Blog : It is a must if you are serious about SEO. Google's main engineer who is responsible for search engine strategies of the company writes regularly about what you should do or not to get along nice with Google.

#4 Graywolf's SEO Blog : Kamikaze SEO techniques, Big Fat RSS lie are some of his contraversial posts. If you want a unique approach to SEO, follow him.

Top 10 Things to Learn from SEO Firms Before Making a Decision

These are the vital questions which you should get reasonable answers from SEO companies before spending money.

1. Can you show me please successful examples from your previous SEO work?
   
   
2. How long have you been in SEO business?
   
   
3. Can I see a list of your satisfied clients and is it possible to take recommendation from them? They sure have also dissatisfied clients. If they don't hide them, it is a good sign as well for honesty.
   
   
4. Can I be sure that you will perform only white hat SEO techniques? Did your SEO work have taken penalties from major search engines?
   
   
5. Can you give guarantee for the application of Major Search Engine guidelines including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing etc.? It is especially important against penalties from search engines.
   
   
6. Can you give detailed information about SEO techniques which you will apply? If you get vague answers, it is better to look for another company.
   
   
7. Will you provide feedbacks about SEO progress, how often?
   
   
8. Any unresolved issues with the Better Business Bureau?
   
   
9. Do you guarantee a #1 position in at least one of the search engines for a selected keyword? Will they approve the relevancy of your website to the competitors? Please, note that major search engines use relevancy based black box algorithms and no one can give an exact guarantee for #1 in SERPs. If they do, you should better suspicious to their proposal and activities. Aim relevancy optimization and tell them clearly.
   
   
10. Ask if there are setup or monthly maintenance fees? Learn all the details of service, because you could be paying for no SEO maintenance tasks at all.
    

Top 3 Dallas Texas SEO Companies

There is a really hot SEO competition in Texas amongst the SEO firms operating there, especially in Dallas. It is like a wild arena where companies try to show their full efforts to be found in terms such as best SEO firms. I will briefly review top 3 Dallas SEO companies according to vital objective parameters like Google PR, Alexa Ratings, SERPs etc. and according secondary parameters like their site designs, offered services, reputation, availability of a SEO news blog or not etc. The review reflects solely my personal opinions and the visitor should evaluate these companies in detail before starting a campaign with them.

Red Spot Design

The company operates in DallasSeoCompany.com domain name and seems to be successful taking advantage of correctly chosen generic search keywords. As a result, they rank #1 for "Dallas SEO Firm" and related several keywords.

Google PR : 4
Alexa : Around 800,000
Services : Onsite Optimization (Proper linking, right keyword density, correct hyperlinking etc.), Offsite Optimization (Link Popularity Analysis, backlink generation, directory submissions), PPC Search Engine Marketing, SE optimized website designs (They have a really large client portfolio),

Social Community : No blog, but you can follow them in twitter and there is a facebook company group

Request Free Quote Option : Yes

Company WebSite Design : Professional looking

The Truth Network

The website of Dallas Internet Marketing Consultant Shelley Cates. As far as I understand she is working many years on this field. Website is 7 years old.

Google PR : 4
Alexa : Around 490,000

Services : Web Design and SEO (Keywords Analysis, Title, Meta Tags, Alt Texts, XML Sitemap, Robots.txt files) She charges much less than her competitors. $100 hourly. The reason of low price is that she works from home and no need to spend money for office rent or staff. She has also a nice success portfolio

Request Free Quote Option : Yes

Company WebSite Design : Eventhough the website is SEO optimized, I think she should change to a more professional design. It is not so attractive to reach more customers.

Social Community : No

Texas SEO

Google PR : 2
Alexa : 135,000

Services : Search engine optimization, marketing, submission, pay-per-click (PPC) consultation, web designing, Copywriting. A nice portfolio as well. They seem to be especially powerful on creating mini niche sites and ebooks as well.

Request Free Quote Option : Yes

Social Community : There is a blog with useful content. RSS support. Very active Marketing Forum

Company Website Design : Fine design with a mixture of blogging

... and other competitors are :

MontFortWebDesign , SeoBlogPro , The Info Group