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Businesses who see that their website is not reaching the first page after a Google search may well start to look for a Search Engine Optimization Company to help them achieve search engine placement on page 1. This is vital for those companies who trade largely on the internet, such as Online Marketing companies, as their search engine positioning on page 1 could be the difference between great sales and porr, even average sales.

This should be more than just a search for such organisations and then looking at the cost of their services, as there may be organisations who are not as ethical as others. They may make exaggerated claims, such as to guarantee to get the client to Search Engine Placement at No.1. Given the competition for top ranking, especially for some clients in a huge marketing area, just getting anywhere on the first page is a success.

The client should be sure that the search engine optimisation company is trustworthy, which could be done by asking them for a list of their clients and then contacting the clients to get their views. This would also give some indication of how long they have been in business and how successful they are, although in the real world there may well be a new company that is attempting to break into the SEO market and is quite ethical in its methods.

One way of confirming how good a SEO company is would be to do a web search and see where their web site comes in the organic results segment, i.e. the results below those that are sponsored. If it isn’t on page one then are they going to do a decent job on the client’s web site?

How long a client web site has been on page 1 will tell you if the Search Engine Optimisation Company is using ethical or White Hat procedures to optimise the site content. If the client reports that they have been on page 1 but now are way down the results or not showing at all, then this means that the Search Engine Optimisation Company has been using unethical or Black Hat techniques. These are recognised by the search engines and can lead to the web site being discarded from the search index, which means that it will not be shown in search results at all.

White Hat techniques give a long lasting place near the top of the organic results and only rigorous competition from other clients in the same market place should affect that listing, apart from short term Black Hat optimised sites of course.

In short the best way of locating a trustworthy Search Engine Optimisation Company is by referral and asking people who are customers or such firms.