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Originally Posted by michstar01
... they say that they need my password from my hosting company so that they can access my website and review it. They say that they cannot give me a quote without this.
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Is this reasonable?
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It is not reasonable.
Would you give a painter your house key so he can give you a quote on painting the exterior of your house?
Server response codes, files being served, and page content are the realm of
SEO - all easily accessible without specialized access.
Insofar as your
SEO should be concerned, the inner workings of the site are irrelevant (that's why you have a developer, right?). If Google can't see it, your
SEO doesn't need to, either.
It sounds like the people you are dealing with are unaware of the scope of what they need to be doing: providing the site is serving content correctly and the content and navigation are well-crafted,
the most important SEO work will be taking place off-site.