6 Tips For Hiring A SEO Consultant, Agency or Company in Malaysia

6 Tips For Hiring A SEO Consultant, Agency & Company In Malaysia

If you have been paying search engines like Yahoo (Yahoo Bing Network) or Google (Google Adwords) to generate leads for your business- chances are you already know the value of being able to send laser targeted traffic to your website and offers.

Please visit this page if you want to work with an established SEO agency.

But paying search engines for traffic can be expensive.

And in some industries, a single click to your ad can cost as much as 40 USD or even more!

While it's not impossible to succeed with pay per click ads- it can cost a lot of money and time while you're working to turn those campaigns into successful and profitable campaigns.

The smartest way to win online in the long run-  is to incorporate a 2 prong marketing strategy that involves  pay per click ads as well as hiring a seo consultant, agency or company to launch a SEO campaign for your business.

This way, you can still send & drive traffic and generate leads for your business online while your SEO service works to increase your website's visibility naturally in the search engines.

If you sell online, you can't go wrong with SEO.

Countless businesses small and big have benefited by having a strong and dominant presence online.

The only question remains: 

How do you go about choosing the best SEO consultant, service or agency in Malaysia?

While you can opt to work and hire a SEO agency or company outside of Malaysia- there's no doubt that it would probably be easier to work with a local SEO agency on all fronts.

But how do you choose a company that knows what it's doing- one that won't get your website in trouble with search engines like Google or Yahoo?

Yes, hire the wrong SEO company (doesn't matter where they're from) and you could get yourself in a whole world of hurt and trouble with Google.

A SEO company or consultant that does not know what they're doing (and couldn't care less) could get your website penalized by major search engines like Google who will ban your website from their search results forever.

And you don' t want that do you?

6 Tips For Hiring A SEO Consultant, Agency or company 

1.Work with a company that's been in business for several years at least.

This alone can save you a live time of grief and you probably won't wake up one day wondering why your SEO consultant or agency isn't taking your calls. You don't want to work with a "fly by" company or a SEO "consultant" that's just out to get your money and leave you hanging high and dry when things go wrong. 

2. Ask to see what your SEO strategy and program is like

Yes, go ahead and ask your SEO company what their SEO program looks like- ask to see the SEO blueprint or strategy for your business. Usually you want to stay away from a company that doesn't have a SEO plan for your business or tells you that it's a "Secret". Here's a superb blog post that talks about this more in detail...

3. Ask to see some proof

Naturally, you want to see some proof that the SEO company knows SEO.

4. Check the proof

If all the company is showing you are long tail keyword phrases that nobody is probably typing in the search engines to find your products and services, then it's a safe bet that they can't rank websites. For example: "buy a house" is harder to rank then "buy house in london and buy it for me today..." (which you can rank almost instantly by the way..)

5. Ask to see a portfolio

Go ahead, and ask for a portfolio- of course, keep in mind that most companies sign a NDA with their SEO agency so it's okay if the portfolio doesn't include large corporations..!

And that's it. Essentially, you want to work with a SEO agency or company  that's going to be offer you a SEO program that isn't going against Google's terms of service for search engine optimization.


6. Read this article by Google about hiring a SEO Agency..

And that's it! Follow these simple guidelines and you'll do just fine.

Remember, SEO must be considered a long term investment to your business. It should not and never be considered as a throw away solution or a magical solution for your traffic problems.

Feel free to leave a comment or ask a question about SEO or search engine marketing.

See you next time!