idealmike
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This idea came about following on from Razzy's thread on Should we still title ourselves as SEO's? Because a lot of people class themselves as "SEOs" or "SEO Experts" on seocheckout. But how can you really know? How can you tell?
When it comes to SEO you want to hire the right person for the job. Someone with the true skills, experience and knowledge in and of SEO.
One way of sort of "sorting the men from the boys" would be to make people who claim to be an SEO on Seocheckout (whether as listed as a skill or selling an SEO service) is to make people answer a series of questions on SEO. With each question being multiple choice and getting harder and harder as they go on. Then finally the score rate shown on the sellers profile.
So if there was 100 questions and the person got 50/100 right then it would show something on their profile like SEO Course Score: 50/100.
It would have to be built into Seocheckout somehow I guess and is probably a mammoth task. But it could have a lot of valuable and practical benefits.
First for the buyers who are buying SEO services, they could see from the score of that test that they know a lot about SEO. And for the seller as well who does and can show that on his/her profile to give buyers, more confidence they are the right one for the job.
I think it would be a cool feature but not make it mandatory for everyone. Because SEO is made up of so many different things, you don't have to know a lot about SEO and all the different things there is to it and that go with it to know one or two of those things and be good at doing them.
But it would have to be set so that they could only answer the question once. So you'd have to make sure you know the answer before you submit it as there's no going back and retaking the course again. Although perhaps that could be an option too?
The questions could start real simple and fairly easy at first but then get harder and harder with like scientific diagrams and formulas or stuff like that for the later questions that only a true professional SEO would know.
But their score would show on their profile letting people know how much they do actually know about SEO and whether or not what they say when they say something like "I am an SEO expert with 10 year SEO experience" you'd be able to see just how true that is from the answer of their Seocheckout SEO Test.
What do you think of this feature?
Would you take the test?
Should it be make mandatory for all people who sell SEO services?
Or should it only be optional only?
It would definitely shake things up a bit don't you think? 
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Oohh and some more thoughts on this topic! I think this would be amazing for Level 1 sellers that have extensive SEO knowledge but are struggling to be noticed. If they have done the certification test and that shows on their profile I think that would make such a difference.
Another thing that I would be interested in, is could buyers also take the test? I would be very interested to know what my scores are in different aspects of SEO and I might at some stage like to offer some services. I would find it helpful for me to see how I measure up personally against a seller here, it would help me make the decision over whether it is more viable for me to do the work myself or if I would be better off just purchasing a service to get the job done :)
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TommyCarey
I love it lol. There are so many people out there that claim to be in the SEO field for 5, 10 or even 15 years (myself included) and this would show if they were actually paying attention for those years and implementing theories and testing methods.
Would you take the test?
Hell Yeah I would
Should it be make mandatory for all people who sell SEO services?
Mandatory, No. I think it would be better to have it as an optional feature, but it should show up on the sellers profile and service page that they have not taken the test yet, if they haven't.
It would definitely shake things up a bit don't you think?
It definitely would. It might actually hurt the sales on Seocheckout because sellers wouldn't want to take the test. The good thing about this is that people who are buying will know that the person they are buying from has taken a test to prove they know what they're doing. Anyone can buy software and set it up to run a campaign, but if that person doesn't really know what they're doing it's just going to hurt the rankings of the clients website
In the end I think this would be a great feature, but it should definitely be optional. And I think that people should be able to take the test twice, maybe. I know that even on the ACT you can take it as many times as you want but anything after 2 gets averaged. Maybe it could work like that? But even then people will write down the questions, research them, and input the correct answers to get that 100%. This could be the way around it since people can make multiple accounts if they want and just keep doing the test until they get all the questions right
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