SEO Training - Tips On Selecting The Best Trainer

By David Anttony

SEO is a very specialized area of net marketing. It's a combination of so many skill arenas. An effective SEO company will have a extended range of SEO skills within its team so that it can tackle the numerous issues that they will face in ranking a site on Google and other search engines.

However, training is very distinct. Someone that is great at creating results may not be good at conveying to others how they can get results.

Many SEO trainers are hands on SEO optimizers and they do not have a professional IT training background.

Here are 5 tips to take note of when taking on a great SEO training business.

ONE:

Ask the SEO company if their trainers are SEO professionals as well as fully fledged IT trainers. Do they have the ability, know-how and skill to deal with individuals in a classroom situation so that the trainees can fully gain from their SEO skills?

TWO:

Does the SEO trainer have working hands-on experience of ranking many different types of websites on Google, Yahoo and MSN - can they show you the results! Or is the trainer a book teacher - they learnt from a book all the theories but have not learnt the hard cold facts about SEO in the SEO 'jungle'. Will they be able to lend to the table the help skills to solve YOUR problems on YOUR website? It's a simple matter of asking.

THREE:

What technical background does your SEO trainer have? Have they an extensive web development background so that they can cover all the core areas that they need to help you rank and learn about ranking your website. A top flight SEO expert teacher should have 2+ years' web development skills in both HTML and programming languages combines as a minimum.

FOUR:

Does the training come with any followup support? Like all training - on the day everything is easy - after the course when you get back the story is different! What after training support is offered by the SEO training company in writing so that you know you will be able to integrate your education effectively.

FIVE:

What is the company's current ranking on Google? Have you checked what their current ranking is for keywords like SEO, SEO training, SEO services etc? If they are not on the 1st page or the top of the second page in the local Google site then maybe they are doing training too early before they have established themselves properly. So go check their rankings right away or just ask them!

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