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The SEO profession is very recent and is flooded with people proclaiming themselves to be SEO experts. In most cases it is just like the donkey wearing the lion’s skin. Most of these self proclaimed SEO are braggadocios that have little knowledge about SEO. These sorts of SEO are either the owners of a website or web designers and may have tried to optimize the traffic or the conversion through the website. The following issues can help to segregate the imposters from the real SEOs.

• It is the in depth knowledge of the working and activities related to Search Engine Optimization that demarcates the genuine SEO expert from the imposter.  A good SEO should have the basic knowledge and skills for SEO such as knowledge about ALT tags, link structures, PR (page rank), Meta tags, anchor text and other content related factors that influence the ranking of the website in the search engines.
• The SEO expert should be able to understand the web related languages such as JavaScript, java, HTML, asp, php and other web languages. These are necessary for producing a code that is clean and can be indexed.
• The SEO expert should have the capability to Code CSS.
• The SEO expert should be able to do proof reading as well as proof writing.
• The SEO personnel should be able to make optimum use of resources for helping the process of link building. The resources include blog sites, directories, and forums, sites for submission of articles and the sites of affiliate networks.
• The SEO personnel should have a thorough understanding about campaigns such as Pay per Click usually known as PPC.
• The SEO expert should be honest and never make false claims of guarantying top ranking in any search engine.
• The person should have the ability of keyword research. The person should know the importance of keyword research for optimizing any website. Good SEO personnel should know the use of tools such as Word tracker and Overture.
• Good SEO personnel should have the understanding of FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and other tools that influence the code.
• The SEO personnel should have writing skills that are extraordinarily creative.
• The person must have the understanding of web analytical tools such as webtrends and urchin.
• The SEO expert should be thorough with the knowledge about the behavior of the web site visitors, experience about the users, conversions and demonstrate interest from the stages of development to the generation of the revenues through the website.
• The SEO personnel should have excellent people management skills because the SEO must strike balance between the needs of the web designer, client, and developer of database with the elements needed for optimization of the website.

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