How to spot a shady SEO Company or Individual

These should be considered “red flags” any of the tactics below are ones that should prompt you to immediately look for a new SEO Specialist. Prepare to say, “Thanks but no thanks.” if you hear any of the following recommendations from your SEO/SEM.

• You can say Goodbye to your SEO if they advise you to build multiple websites, either to use as a linking tool or because they say its easier to optimise one site for one search engine and a different site for another search engine.
• If your SEO advertise that they will submit your site to 2 million search engines or accredit themselves to top rankings on search engines that get no traffic. your main concern is the 3 big search engines, Google, MSN and Yahoo
•  If they mention any form of black-hat technique the its time to shake hands and turn away.
• If your SEO is using any kind of automated tool to create content for your campaign then your in trouble.
• If your SEO is not doing any form of active constant link building then your being robbed, link building is the backbone of SEO.
• Cloaking your Web site so that search engines see one thing and visitors see another. This is strictly forbidden
• Suggest posting one article to 1000 sites, this will surely land you a duplicate content penalty.
• Recommend adding lots of title tags to your content in the hope of gaming Google
• Automated inquiries, Search engines don’t appreciate being used by robots to check a sites ranking every 2 hours.