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How do you build your pre-sales seo audit
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Hello Moz community,
I'd like to know if you build "pre-sales seo audit" when selling your services to a prospect.
I think the main idea of a pre-sales audit is to show your prospect that you
- understand his industry (trends & competition)
- understand the opportunities
- know the roadblocks on his website
If so, i'd be interested in discussing the information you put into your pre-sales audit and how you organise it. If you know ressources i should read as regards to mini seo audit / pre-sales seo audit just paste the link

Thanks for your answers
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Hey Ryan and Jim thanks for your answer.
I'm going to check those ressources.
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I'd check over on Alan Bleiweiss's site...IMHO he's the best audit guy out there and if memory serves, he's got a checklist of some type there too...including a detailed post on same....

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These guides should serve you pretty well: http://azwa.1clkaccess.in/pages/search_results?q=checklist A lot of what you do depends on the situation.
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