SEO company wants to make changes to your code. What do you do?

[jphilapy]

@DrQuincy

Hi, excellent question, as a going through all this at the moment.

I’d built the site and in the meantime they’d got an SEO company to work on the site without telling me. Looking at the changes they make I don’t like the way they’ve coded certain things and also I run a test site (v2.site.com). Now, the client comes to me with amends, I look at the site and think, something isn’t right so I find out this SEO company have been meddling with it. I said, I’m not touching those amends until the code conforms to my standards (site no longer validates, inconsistent URLs, etc) and they’ve updated the test site too.

Too many cooks spoil the broth. However you manage it someone needs to monitor changes.

I have it in the terms of my contract now that a third party can’t work on the site and claim credit for any of my work and I am not liable for any damage caused by their changes.

drqunicy, great answer. Will save this one for later