Have you ever used a professional SEO firm with your meta, and keywords etc?
Was it worth it? Did you walk away with more in terms of strategy, SEO standing
and userbase? I'm just about to start working with an SEO firm in Britain.
i have used seo's on the past and honestly didn't do anything for me 0 extra traffic problem is they always have a scape goat for not helping you when there seo tactics fail they just simply blame it on your site and move on. there maybe some legit ones out there but I haven't found one.
I believe if they make a promise to get your site in the top searches and they fail you shouldn't have to pay them a dime.
If you want good SEO you are best off producing good content and using good software. Modern search engines don't pay all that much attention to meta tags, etc, and good software is already optimized to have good SEO. A license for IPB, vBulletin, or XenForo is much cheaper than the average SEO consultant. 🙂