The saying “prevention is better than cure” applies to a lot of things, in this video our goal is to help you avoid being scammed by Snake Oil SEO companies. It is important to know how they usually operate and what you can ask them to determine if they really know what they’re doing. Finding out if SEO companies are legitimate can sometimes be difficult, so we hope that you watch until the end of the video to learn about techniques you can use to catch them red-handed.
How to Find a Legitimate SEO Company
How can you tell if you’re being scammed? Okay snake oil SEO is very hard to detect if you’re not tech savvy.
Just do some basic research, talk to those people make sure it’s the same people you are actually working with, see them at least in a video call and ask them for real time reports.
So the way you can do that you need to get access to your Google search console and set up a Gmail account if you don’t have one or if you have a domain set it up maybe with a Google ID and then you can get reports from Google about your website and you would literally be able to see the graph so nobody can trick you. Do a trial period maybe, be very very careful, be very wary, don’t let anybody scam you.
Don’t Just Change an SEO Company
Try to see what’s going on don’t just you know go ahead and change your SEO company, because also you might think it’s snake oil but it actually might not be it. Sometimes the case is that you have a very good SEO company but you have a bad sales funnel. I had clients that they’re simply, their phone in the store didn’t work for like six months and it’s like “I have nothing to do with that, you’re getting calls it’s nobody’s answering or the phone is overwhelmed with the calls, that’s your problem” you know.
So don’t try to blame always, try and look and figure out what’s going on. You’d be surprised, I had a listing that simply got overwhelmed with calls and one of the secretaries just left a phone like that.
Do Your Research
Just do your research make sure you don’t sign those companies, don’t blame your current one because either way is bad, and then try to understand if traffic is growing. Two very good videos made by Google, one is by Miley Oya and the other one is just a generic video they have with illustrations.
