Please introduce your company and give a brief about your role within the company?
SEOFIED is a full-service Google Certified Digital marketing agency offering innovative web marketing solutions to mid to large size companies across the globe. We offer a wide variety of specialized services to meet our client’s business needs, which includes custom web design, e-commerce, website application development, logo design/branding, search engine optimization, digital marketing, web consulting and looking strategic partner organizations worldwide. Our goal is to establish a unique and highly effective online presence for our clients globally. We have been working with an ample number of clients which has improved our organic search visibility since 2010.
We have made a stellar reputation in the technology industry by adhering to strict timelines and quality deliverables. We are considered to be one of the most reliable partners by our clients as we follow a customer-oriented service model.
I am the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SEOFIED and take an active part in Sales and Managing Design and Development projects and Day to day business operation that happen in our company.
Mention the objectives or the parameters critical in determining the SEO Strategy for a client.
Every business is unique, and every website has different metrics and SEO strategy for organizing a website's content by topic, which helps search engines like Google understand a user's intent when searching. (SEO) is one of the most effective marketing tactics to bring high-quality traffic to a website and help foster conversions for any given business. For companies to stay relevant in their industries and maintain business growth, it’s crucial to get a significant ranking in the SERPs.
Here are a few steps we take to ensure all of our SEO bases are covered:
1. First step is to make a list of topics you'd like to cover from one month to the next
2. Make a List of Keywords Based on These Topics
3. Build Pages for Each Topic
4. Set Up Blog, Publish Article, etc
5. Create a Link-Building Plan
6. Stay Up-to-date on SEO News & Best Practices
Also, tracking indexed pages, leads, ROI, inbound links, keywords, and your actual ranking on SERPs (search engine results pages) can help you recognize your success as well as identify areas of opportunity.
How does your company differentiate itself from the competition?
1. We take every project as an opportunity to do something new, something better, and try to exceed expectations of our clients.
2. We begin every project by thoroughly analyzing clients' requirements, competitors, and customer expectations associated with them.
3. We have grown into a strong team of 80+ professionals. A team of skilled designers, developers, and expert marketers who constantly strive to put the company at the forefront of the web industry by delivering great value to clients.
4. Global service provider with offices in India and Partner Office in USA, Malaysia.
5. More than 4000+ Website Optimised Globally in just 9 years.
6. More than 1500+ Website Designed and Developed.
7. Partnered with 10 + entrepreneurs across the globe.
8. Core team of 85+ employees with strong expertise in technical domain.
9. Leverage latest tools, techniques, methodologies and strategies to deliver robust solutions that generate revenue for our clients.
10. CMMI Level 3 and ISO 9001: 2008 certified company.
11. Google Partner Company.
12. Affiliated with international associations like NASSCOM and CII.
13. Client trust is utmost important for us. To ensure the confidentiality of the project, we sign the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with our clients.
What industries do you generally cater to? Are your customers repetitive? If yes, what ratio of clients has been repetitive to you?
We are open to all sorts of industries— Small, Medium and Large and have worked with B2B, B2C. Around 60% of our customers are repetitive ones and 20% of our clients are on a long-term partnership.
What are some of the most common issues that new clients have when they first approach you for SEO services?
Every client is unique in its Nature, Business Model, Industry and the Market he has. So client will ask questions before they select any Digital Marketing Company like us. The most common question I ever faced as a Sales and Marketing guy from last 8 Years is Reliability, Experience in the same Industry, Pricing and how soon we can achieve the result and what kind of SEO Guarantee we can offer.. But the truth is SEO is unpredicted and unforeseen and the best what we will do is to follow the industry, inculcate Google best practices, educate our clients as much as we can, And this is what we have been doing for years.
What do you find to be some of the most key factors for running a successful SEO agency?
I personally believe in maintaining a relationship with our clients, no matter how big or small they are for us. Our clients have been instrumental in driving our growth from a home-office start-up to a Google Partner Company now with over 92 employees. I recognize that we wouldn’t be where we are today without the contributions and continued trust that has been placed by our esteemed clients and I believe it is the foundation of our success. They are the centre of everything we do and we are working tirelessly towards ensuring to exceed their expectations in a fair and responsible way.
What are the key factors that you consider before deciding the cost of a project?
For SEO and Digital marketing:- We consider factors such as the number of keywords, number of pages, competition, and market of our clients.
For Website Designing and Development:- We consider factors such as the size of the project, complexity, number of developers and their experience, features and time to close the project.
What kind of payment structure do you follow to bill your clients?
For SEO and Digital Marketing:- We are billing them on a Monthly basis until they are using our services.
For Website Designing and Development:- We are open to charge them a Flat price if their requirement and scope of work are clear to both of us. If no, we are happy to bill them on hourly basis which is 18 USD but before we are giving them an estimate of time.
What is the price range (min and max) of the projects that you catered to in 2018?
In 2018, our starting price for SEO and Digital Marketing was 350 USD and for Website Designing and Development, it was minimum 900 USD to 14000 USD.
Name a couple of activities that you think provide the best ROI in terms of benefit/impact on rankings and traffic per unit of time spent.
There is no strict rule of activities we can suggest. It merely depends on various factor keeping in mind the client who wants to work with us. The only way we will be auditing a few of the factors lies along what my client is missing and what we can add to give a considerable upliftment to their business.
