Is it safe to hire an overseas SEO expert for a new ecommerce website?

I received an email from a person in India that indicated that she will help me with Search Optimization of my new shopify website. She indicated that my website is not showing on top of search engines like Google/Bing/Yahoo. The person from India indicated that should I want to avail this opportunity to improve my search optimization, I must share my phone number/Zoom and suitable time (Meeting) to talk to her, so she can explain her plan and strategy to assist me.

Is there any risk for a new comer “shopify” website holder to liaise with a person from another country, I do not know and to help me with search optimization? I do not blindly want to liaise with a person on shopify matters that I do not know?

Do these people that assist you with search optimization, usually charge fees?

Wiekie Bartlett from cape Town South Africa.

Wiekie Bartlett

Hello @Wiekie ,

Search engine optimization is very necessary for our ecommerce website to increase more traffic & conversion.

Improve ON Page / OFF Page SEO, links, usability, performance & social for increase more conversion & sale (Your store could be better)

We have experts team of Shopify developer to rank your website #1.

we help customers improve search engine rankings by modifying their websites to better reflect what search engines are looking for. However, a strong understanding of consumer markets and websites configurations allows us to offer effective tailored solutions and long term performance.

Visit on our website. Read the plan in details

or you can ask on Skype

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https://www.oscprofessionals.com/search-engine-optimization/

Thank you !

Hi @Wiekie

SEO is necessary and important for every website. If you do not know about How to optimize search engines, you should hire a SEO expert. Everything has its risks but if you are careful, you can avoid it.

Hope it helps!

Hi @Wiekie ,

Search engine optimization (SEO) is quite important in todays day and age with putting your brand in a better place for online searches. There is no risk with working with someone from a different country on something like SEO, but it’s good to do some due diligence and see any work they have done before or see if they have a list of previous clients so you can know who they’ve worked with in the past. This could put your head at ease with this a bit. SEO can be difficult to figure out and there usually would be a fee when working with someone on it. There is however some documenation from Shopify which could be worth your while reading to get more familiar with it all.

Shopify has a help guide and a blog post which I would recommend reading:

There are lots of other SEO guides out there, but these are more Shopify related and a good place to start.

If you definitley want to work with someone, a lot of the Shopify Experts and partners would do SEO work too. You don’t have to work with the first person who gets in touch with you, so taking a look around and exploring who you might work best with might be a good way to go. You can see the Shopify Expert directory here.

There are also some SEO apps in the Shopify App store which could be useful for you. I like to use SEO Manager personally, but it can be expensive. You can see a full list of SEO apps here and some have free plans!

I hope this helps, but completely understand how it can be overwhelming learning this at the start. Let me know if you have any other questions!

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