roycerus - 6:15 pm on Mar 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

I would say the best way to find good SEO's is to try and find companies who take part in the SEO contests [where you have to rank a new website on search engines].

These companies however would probably charge much higher than the one man run efforts but they will show more defined results. You can probably make a list of say ten companies after researching through the contest winners and then you can write to each one to send you a quote.

Google is ruthless... and it's amazingly difficult to make websites rank well for competitive keywords. So, be sure to go with a good company or you may just end up wasting money.

Regards,
R