10 Signs Your Cincinnati SEO Agency Is Wasting Your Money (and 2 Signs That Look Bad but Aren't)

You're months into an SEO retainer and can't honestly say what you've gotten. The reports look busy; the phone doesn't. Bad SEO engagements fail in the same ten ways everywhere — guaranteed rankings Google itself calls impossible, wins over zero-volume keywords, work you can't name, links you wouldn't want, assets you don't own — and every one is checkable by a non-expert in under an hour. Just as important: the two signs that look like waste but are actually normal, so you don't fire a good agency at the worst possible moment.