Google Video On How To Hire An SEO: Old vs New

Mar 3, 2020 - 8:04 am 5 by

Google Hire Seo

Google posted a new video on how to hire an SEO. This video, I assume, will replace the one Google posted in 2017 done by former Googler Maile Ohye. Here are the two videos.

The new video released a few days ago:

This video covers asking the right questions, checking references and a technical and search audit.

Here is the old video from 2017:

This video covers how to conduct a two-way interview with your potential SEO, how to check references and ask for a technical and search audit.

Yep - they seem the same - nothing has changed?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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