At first step "Claimed SEO Expert" can criticise your website
"Your CMS is really bad for SEO. In fact I don't see a robots.txt or an XML sitemap. I would suggest rewriting the content and using canonical tags. Your keywords density looks spammy and you have no ALT tag description that's why you are not at the top of the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages)."
After this "Claimed SEO Expert" will talk about white hat seo, no doubt white hat seo is the hard way to go in SEO. However some incompetent SEO Expert may claim that their lack of link building is due to following all the white hat seo techniques. This thing they cover in "White hat SEO" term. These SEO Experts don't put much consideration or effort in getting backlink from authority website or theme related website, no doubt there are several ways of gray/black hat seo of getting backlinks but some other linkbuilding methods such as article writing, press release, crating good quality linkbait are best and greatly appreciated by Search Engines.
"Claimed SEO Expert" could say you something like this
"Give me few months and I will get your website on top to the all search Engines, I do
completely white sparkly hat SEO. My SEO campaigns are based on moral principles. If you
have to work for links, then you are crossing the integrity line. Most of what I do is On-Page..
actually all I do is On-Page optimization. But they work and yeah im really good in it."
Conversion Expert Turned SEO
This is very uncommon term used in SEO some "Claimed SEO Experts" mistakenly believe that user experience is complicatedly connected with SEO. Somehow they labelled as an "Internet Marketer" but they only talk about conversion and design but idea of increasing traffic hardly comes in their mind.
You can listen them saying:
"Search Engine marketing is a lot about user experience. So you have got 10 visitors a
Month ? With my SEO experience, I'll boost your conversion rate by 10%. I'm sure we can
Convert at least one of them."
Self-Proclaimed Social Media Expert
"Claimed SEO Expert" demonstrate that they are Social Media Experts because they know how to use facebook or twitter. They talk about going viral although they don't have any idea even about going viral. And more sadly thing they claim their effectiveness by getting more and more friends and huge number of followers.
They could sound like this:
"We have to get an account with every social network…. I've just signed you up for facebook
Twitter, dig and lots more to count. If you get lots of account you will get lots of authority
website links. And lots of friend and followers will be on your website… it will definitely help
Help your SEO."
IT Guy
SEO Expert claim that SEO is an IT thing but truly it's not, Actually "Claimed SEO Experts" thinks SEO belong to the IT department because it involves algorithms and some coding, while SEO may require someone with a bit HTML skills, it should be connected with the marketing department and you can connect it specifically with "Search Team".
A "Claimed SEO Expert" can say something like this to you:
"Well, I just googled SEO and I found out that keywords density is REALLY important.
I'm just going to add our keywords in all pages of website for organic search, in Meta Tags.
We don't need an SEO Firm… SEO is an IT thing. I'll take care of it."
Bad Grammar Offshore SEO
Bad grammar and offshore SEO can affect your position in SERPs, and most of the "Claimed SEO Expert" use translation tools for keyword search; these SEO's could be cheap but not effective.
"I like blogging and I always comment on other blogs to get links, I use comments such as
"I like your post, I will bookmark it to come back again" these types of comment get admin
approval, I have thousands of comment links with my software and I will get
thousands of links in few weeks."
Black Hat SEO
No doubt black hat SEO give you fast and fruitful results, but those results will quickly decline after Google notices the spammy activities on the website. Blcak hat SEO can be done with easy steps but it often do more damage than good for your website.
"Claimed SEO Expert" could say you something like this:
"I can take you on top of the all search engines in few months because I have
thousands of doorway pages, who needs to actually write unique content anymore?
Don't worry about my techniques, they always work."
You must avoid these type of SEO Experts who waste your money and time, not only this they can be dangerous for your online business if google track spammy tactics around your website.