{"id":120,"date":"2011-12-07T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/45.113.122.180\/~prospectz\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:28:36","slug":"tests-the-seo-needs-to-pass-before-you-hire-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prospectz.com\/blog\/tests-the-seo-needs-to-pass-before-you-hire-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Tests the SEO needs to pass before you hire them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4- Grammar: If the comments from that particular SEO have horrible grammar and if it apparent that text has been directly translated from some other language, you could avoid them. A comment for a comment\u2019s sake in bad grammar is highly ineffective. 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The most important thing with SEO is for the search results to be organic ones, if the SEO Company is not talking to you about it, and focussing on getting you to the top pages using only paid links and ads to do so, the quality of the ranking deteriorates.<\/p>\n<p>1-Keywords: If the SEO is still stuck on Keyword stuffing and Meta keywords, you can take him out of running without even thinking twice about it. Keyword stuffing is a thing of the past. Pages that have been stuffed with keywords show up on search results but are not read by anyone for the obvious reason that they make no sense. 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