Hiring an SEO company

[alastairc]

I usually do SEO myself but now its time to move on to getting on with running the business. I have found a fantastic PPC company who ONLY focus on PPC and am looking for same but for SEO.

Must be based in UK and have a great portfolio of mid/large tier companies with some real life stats to back them up.

Pricing must be clear and transaparent. Results must be measurable.

How would you find such a company? Ironically searching on Google doesn't seem to produce the right results

Alastair

[wissamdandan]

There is some great UK SEOs That i do actually follow on Twitter

• David Naylor
• Rishi Lakhani
• seoptimise.com
• seogadget.co.uk

And of course distilled.co.uk

[firstconversion]

You're asking in the right place now. I would suggest SEOmoz's http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace but its also not really trustworthy. Personal recommendations here are your best bet. Give us an idea of the industry, where in the UK you are based and rough budget

I do SEO for http://www.iln.co.uk/work/ in Spitalfields

Not your typical SEO company, we are completely content lead as a result of 170 years as a magazine company Check out my bio and PM if your around London for a coffee

Cheers

S

[SteveOllington]

"Ironically searching on Google doesn't seem to produce the right results :-("

OUCH!!

We're nice and high on G for "SEO Company" or at least we were until a couple of days ago when we suddenly got zapped back to 11th

I know what you mean though, some of the highest results are there through monstrous levels of spammy links, and I would be dis-honest if I said that when we were in 5th the other day there were no such links involved on our part (sorry people, I'm well against it but we did have a little dark period at one stage).

I think you just need to ensure that when they say they're an SEO company, that means they cover all of SEO, not just a shred of it (which some do). The suggestions people have given on here are known to be awesome so I'd get on their quote forms  

[PabloGV]

In my opinion, what you should do, is to call yourself some of these companies and talk with their techie director/ceo/seo director. If you know seo yourself, you gonna see fast who knows, who says they know and who doesn't know. Also you can discover lot of useful info about the company, the method/s and such interesting things + comparing these with well-kwnown SEO's around you, like those Wissam wrote for example.

After that is just up to your criteria + the budget/prices

[DanielFreedman]

I had a terrific experience with Zeno SEO on a very tricky and delicate assignment. I am in Canada, Zeno is in the UK and client was mutlt-national.

You can talk to owner, Tom, on the phone quite easily when required and he always respond to email within 24 hours. More importantly, he under promises and over delivers. Very professional and a pleasure to work with -- including cool headed response to some minor crises along the way.

[alastairc]

Thank you very muc for all your advice. It does seem to be a difficult one to address, so I'll get cracking and take your advice and get in touch ith your recommendations.

Thanks again

Alastair