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On Monday, Brian Provost at ScoreBoard Media Group authored a post called - The First Question You Should Ask Your SEO Consultant. Brian’s exceptionally good at expressing himself, so I won’t paraphrase:

“If you can rank a site in lucrative markets, why would you do it for clients instead of for yourself?”
That’s the first thing you, the prospective client, should ask each of the SEO consultants you are considering…

Brian proceeds with what is, in essence, a direct indictment of SEOmoz’s business model and the model of most of these folks as well:

…For many of us, we only consulted as long as we had to in order to build up our bankroll.  I’m constantly amazed at how many of these “SEO Firms” with the big followings generate little to no income from their own projects.  If there is a stronger signal of quality for a lack of confidence in their own […]

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