How to Hire Good SEO Freelancers #2208

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Marketing, Careers, Business

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In episode #2208, Neil and Eric talk about how to hire good SEO freelancers. Throughout our careers, we have had to hire our fair share of SEO freelancers. Tuning in you'll hear about the lessons we’ve learned from the hiring process. We discuss how to identify whether someone will deliver what they claim they will, why you need to be patient and communicate clearly with new hires, and share our recommendations for great resources that will help you find the best SEO freelancers! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:20] Today’s topic: How to Hire Good SEO Freelancers. [00:25] How to identify SEO freelancers on job sites and follow up with their employers. [01:34] The concept of a role scorecard and how to implement it. [02:51] Book and newsletter recommendations for tips on hiring. [03:09] Why you need to be patient when hiring new freelancers. [03:29] The importance of being clear with your expectations. [03:52] Crucial questions to ask potential candidates to determine whether they will deliver high conversion rates. [04:56] That’s it for today! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast! [04:58] Check out https://www.marketingschool.io/jobs to see our job postings or post a job of your own! [05:07] Go to https://www.marketingschool.io to learn more! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Who: The A Method for Hiring SEO Notebook Newsletter SEO Fomo Newsletter Subscribe to our premium podcast (with tons of goodies!): https://www.marketingschool.io/pro Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Us: Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips
0:06.4	and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.
0:11.8	Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric
0:16.8	Sue.
0:18.1	We got a special message from our sponsor.
0:22.8	If you want to rank higher on Google, you got to look at your paid speed time.
0:27.3	The faster your website loads, the better off you are.
0:30.1	With Google's Corvital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your
0:34.1	site for low time.
0:36.3	And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use DreamHouse.
0:40.8	So just go to DreamHouse or Google it, find it, check it out, and it's a great way to
0:45.7	improve your low time.
0:47.5	All right.
0:48.5	So I wanted to take a second to tell you about my ad agency single grain.
0:53.2	So the cool thing about single grain is that we do a whole host of things, paid media,
0:57.3	SEO, conversion rate, optimization, and we are offering a free marketing plan.
1:02.6	So if you just Google single grain marketing plan, you will be able to find it and you
1:08.8	can just register for a free marketing plan and our team will get back to you.
1:12.6	All right, guys, before we start, we got a special message from our sponsor.
1:17.6	If you want to rank higher on Google, you got to look at your paid speed time.
1:22.1	The faster your website loads, the better off you are.
1:25.0	With Google's Corvital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your
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