Coming to a conclusion on hiring an SEO & Web Design Company
I have been looking for a while now for someone or some company to take care of some SEO and web design work I need done, particularly on some of my smaller projects that have literally dragged on for months simply because I have not had the time to deal with them myself. While doing this, I have been frustrated by the fact that so many companies do either SEO or web design, but not both. It seems to me that in the process of doing SEO you would be so exposed to HTML, PHP, etc., that you would, just by contact, have learned how to do web design as well. Unfortunately that does not seem to (at least universally) be the case.
I have however found a few companies that are capable of doing both services. Then, the issues is to find out if the company is good at both of them. In my opinion, even if a company is good at one side, it is not a sure signal they will be good at the other. For this reason it is my belief that you have to evaluate a company’s SEO abilities entirely independently from its programming or website design abilities. The two are related, as I mentioned earlier in the article, simply because of a little overlap, but I do not think they are so closely related that you don’t need to consider them separately.
The other issue is, as usual, price. Price is always a concern simply because of the wild variations you find when shopping on the internet—particularly for services like web design and SEO. From my experience, price is really not at all related to quality. Sometimes the best service providers also charge the least amount of money.