1. What is SEO?
SEO stands for search engine optimization. It refers to strategies and techniques that improve a website's rankings in search engines like Google, allowing it to appear higher in results pages for relevant searches.
2. How can SEO benefit my business?
SEO generates more website visitors, brand awareness, lead generation opportunities, and customers. Ranking high for valuable keywords drives traffic from people actively searching for your products or services.
3. What is your experience in SEO?
Our founder has over 10 years of extensive SEO experience optimizing websites across diverse industries. He keeps up-to-date with the latest trends and maintains several respected certifications.
4. What makes your SEO services unique?
We offer comprehensive technical audits, on-page optimization, conversion focused strategies, link building, effective reporting, and completely personalized solutions tailored to each client's specific goals.
5. What does an SEO campaign with your agency look like?
We start with auditing your site, researching keywords, evaluating competitors, and planning strategies before executing targeted improvements for traffic, leads and sales. Ongoing optimization and reporting continues maximizing results.
6. What SEO pricing models do you offer?
We offer project-based pricing tailored to your needs and budget as well as monthly retainers scaling options allowing us to manage campaigns long-term for bigger results over time.
7. Do you guarantee rankings or results?
We don't guarantee #1 positions since rankings fluctuate and competitors play a role. However we do guarantee effective implementation of researched best practices tailored around your goals.
8. How can SEO complement my other marketing?
SEO works extremely well combined with paid search, social media, email, and content marketing, multiplying results. Our strategies integrate with existing efforts.
9. How long does it take to see SEO results?
Initial results come fast but climbing competitive keywords can take 6-12 months. We focus on long and short term wins, showing progress in reports. Consistency over time is key.
10. You mentioned reporting - what does that include?
Custom dashboards track website analytics, rankings, monthly recaps, traffic sources analysis, conversions, ROI, and KPIs tailored to your goals for complete transparency.
11. Can outdated website design negatively affect SEO?
Yes, modern UX, speed optimizations, responsive mobile pages, and clean architecture establish a foundation for visibility. Our technical audits address issues.
12. Should I choose an SEO agency or freelancer?
For best results, choose an experienced agency for access to collective knowledge across specialties versus a single generalist. Monthly retainers provide stability.
13. Why are links and content marketing important for SEO?
Quality links signals authority and relevancy to search engines while content attracts backlinks, engagement and converts visitors.
14. Will SEO replace my need for paid advertising?
SEO complements paid media well. Cover lost impressions from paused ads with SEO driving organic traffic to those landing pages while scaling efforts.
15. How technically demanding are your SEO strategies?
We handle all challenging implementation tasks so you focus on running your business while we optimize it behind the scenes and provide transparent reporting.
16. What is your SEO process and what's the timeframe?
Strategic planning takes 1-2 weeks before deploying solutions over a 6+ month timeframe. Long term management persists for ongoing results.
17. What metrics do you optimize for?
Conversions, revenue, leads, site traffic, rankings, visibility growth. We connect efforts directly to your business goals via in-depth analytics.
18. What specific SEO tactics do you leverage?
On-page optimizations, technical fixes, UI/UX improvements, target link building, conversions optimization, local SEO, schema markup implementation, site speed, etc. We use proven tactics avoiding risky shortcuts.
19. Should I be worried about Google algorithm updates?
By sticking to white hat, ethical best practices focused on human users over shortcuts to “trick” algorithms, we build sustainable results able withstand updates.
20. How do you conduct keyword research? What's your process?
We use several paid tools analyzing search volume, competition levels, commercial intent, and optimization difficulty to identify profitable, scalable targets supporting business goals.
21. How do you monitor website rankings?
We verify rankings across tools to avoid inconsistencies checking page 1 and 2 visibility. Manual checks twice a month supplement automated tracking. We dig into sudden ranking changes.
22. What SEO pricing models do you offer?
Project-based pricing is available but monthly retainers enable better collaboration implementing complex plans over longer timeframes to build, optimize and sustain results. Retainer clients receive discounted extras like content creation.
23. How exactly does SEO increase website sales?
By optimizing pages for commercial phrases used during purchase consideration and targeting each stage of the buyer's journey, we directly influence decisions leading to sales.
24. What's your client onboarding process like?
We gather details about your business, customers, challenges, processes, goals, existing data and marketing through a detailed questionnaire and kickoff call enabling us create fully customized game plans.
25. Do I need to provide content or landing pages for SEO?
No we can handle content strategy, creation and linking as well as landing pages / funnel optimization complimenting technical efforts based on conversions data.
26. Are there any standard SEO deliverables I can expect?
Yes, in addition to scheduled reporting mentioned earlier, you'll receive on-page recommendations, competitor analysis summaries, site crawl summaries, link opportunity proposals, funnel mapping documents, personalized future state models for search visibility, keyword tracking sheets, and suggested tests.
27. How long are initial contracts or retainers?
Typical engagements range from 6-12 months enabling adequate time to earn expert quality links, generate unique content, and
sustain consistent optimization as websites change.
28. What happens after my initial SEO retainer contract ends?
We discuss renewing retainers or shifting to project-based plans. Sustaining efforts preserves and builds upon momentum from initial gains while adjusting strategies based on changes over time.
29. How can I check an SEO agency's track record or results for other clients?
We're always fully transparent and happy to provide website traffic graphs, anonymized ranking growth data, and key metric benchmarks from past clients with their consent. References are available also.
30. What metrics do you report on each month?
Ranking positions, monthly traffic (organic, paid, social, etc), lead form conversions, phone call tracking, ROI tracking, goal achievement over time, site analytics, link metrics, optimizations completed, and detailed action plans.
31. How do I know your link building tactics are ethical? What do you consider “black hat SEO”?
We only pursue relevant links from trusted providers earned manually through outreach, partnerships, etc. Blackhat tactics include buying links, over-optimizing anchors, doorway pages, hiding text, etc which we avoid.
32. If my site faces a manual action from Google, will you help fix that?
Yes, absolutely! We help properly respond to algorithmic or manual reviews securing re-inclusion and optimization opportunities going forward through ethical compliance.
33. What factors contribute to your SEO success rate?
Our extensive expertise, proven process developed over 10+ years SEO experience, tailored strategies for unique business models, in-house content developers and hands-on link builders supporting technical talent enables reliable success.
34. How can I expect sales conversions to increase from SEO specifically?
Beyond more traffic from target buyer keywords, we optimize pages influencing decisions at each stage of consideration with the goal of creating more sales ready prospects exposed to conversion focused messaging we help develop.
35. What happens if my competitors aggressively pursue SEO? How do you counteract their efforts?
We frequently optimize based on their strategy shifts and monitor their site changes in order to recommend counteracting measures defending rankings wins while also innovating new tactics scaling visibility further beyond temporary fluctuations.