405 Ads SEO Los Angeles

Learn the key questions to ask an SEO agency or professional from 405 Ads who hires locally in the Los Angeles area for SEO professionals. Because we aid businesses in their marketing plan, white-label for other SEO companies contracts, and perform SEO for companies with in-house marketing departments, we know what to ask any SEO professional or agency prior to working with them.

You want to know what goes in your project and why. SEO is not a once size fits all service, even if the company has experience doing SEO for your type of business in your marketplace. Every business is unique and we see this when we go through the goals, and what sort of leads drive your business for success. This is why most SEO companies in Los Angles that offer pre-built ‘packages’ fail at doing the optimization service.

Most SEO companies can say they’re the best and they have a lot of experience in their trade. But we all know talk is cheap and sales pitches can go through the roof with all sorts of promises. This is why a track record is important. Instead of listening to the SEO sales person’s pitch, ask to see some sort of proof in a form of a case study, ranking report (non-competitor),  or analytic difference in traffic.  Most SEO professionals will be able to even provide you a reference to a different client of their proving their success.

SEO can be tricky if you don’t measure the success because you simply don’t know if it’s working. Reporting on what they did and why they did it is great, but it’s not the end game on what should be done. An SEO professional will be able to show you their success through their efforts whether it’s showing the proof of the leads coming in or differentiating the SEO leads which turned into revenue for your business. Yes, SEO professionals will do CRM management to tell you where the leads came from and what value they brought your business. The 405 Ads tip is to AVOID SEO companies which simply offer rankings and/or analytics reports only.

Every business has contracts and SEO companies are no different. Given SEO takes time its understandable contracts can grant SEO companies 6 -12 months to work on your project. What to ask is how much time goes into the SEO project? What part of the project receives more attention and why? The 405 Ads tip is to never pay for SEO rankings (i.e. second or third-page results which oftentimes lead to no business) and only pay for the labor and paid links involved in your SEO project.