Traits to Look For In A SEO

Article Written by : Leader SEO

While the concept of using and SEO is all well and dandy, there are some serious negative consequences to consider before heading down that path. For example, an SEO can give your website or pages a fake feeling to them. With this, you may receive increased hits or traffic, but it will all be ‘bad traffic’, or traffic that truly has no interest in the products or services you are selling and representing. An irresponsible SEO will not be willing to go the extra mile to ensure that negatives do not outweigh the positives in your venture, so finding and paying for a great and reputable SEO is absolutely necessary!

The ways in which an SEO may help though are rather numerous. First off, they have the ability to review your site’s content and structure; helping you to find ways to optimize and streamline your work to make it more efficient and easier for search engines to use. Secondly and perhaps more importantly, the technical assistance that should be able to provide on hosting, redirecting, backlinks, and JavaScript is what truly makes an SEO great. Without these tools, they are simply doing something that many site owners could do on their own time; a little spring cleaning. Therefore if an SEO is advertising his or her skills only with regards to keyword research or a specific background in a targeted demographic, be wary! These are things that just about anyone and everyone can dig up, so ask questions and be thorough when hiring these people.

Moz a site with best SEO tools

Moz.com (formerly SEOMoz) is a software development company and an online service specializing in search engine optimization (SEO).  Founded in 2004 it earned an annual income of $1.4 million.  However, at the end of 2011, it earned whopping $11.4 million in revenue.  Some of the tools are free with limited datasets; however, there are three different professional in depth and detail reports, Moz Pro for purchase.  Moz Pro shower its members with perks including discount on other related services including A/B testing platforms, social media tools and industry conference tickets.

The site is friendly and provides many attractive reports.  Some users have raved the site as one of the best for keyword search, link building and site analysis.  Moz provides a series of tools including Moz Term Extractor that shows the importance of words or phrases; Moztrust which compares trustworthiness of the Website to others; MozRank, an alternative to Google PageRank; a tool to compare relevance of a page with other similar samplings; YOUMoz, a tool to research popular search trends; and SEO Toolbar that audit SEOs.  The graphics and layout make it easier to drop screen grabs into any report helping novices to the technology.  This makes the site friendlier to those who like attractive reports.

Moz also has a few version of their tool called Open Site Explorer. It will allow you to do a few searches a day for free!