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Having followed up on my previous post where  I took a look at SEO Freelancers, I decided it was time to step out and see what SEO Outsourcing was all about for myself.

The objective ? To acquire around 100 backlinks for a site I run, at around 1$ per link. The links needed to be themed, with a slight twist on the anchor text used, and present on SE friendly sites. No directories, commenting, forums or networks etc.

Basically, I just wanted to acquire some productive backlinks that appeared organic, and gave my site a boost in the big three.

Of course the other objective was to save time over doing it myself, and pay the relevant party once happy the criteria had been met and the links appeared in Googles cache (common terms of payment for linkbuilding).

OH BOY was I in for a surprise. Talk about micro management. By the time they were through, just 15 of the links they provided met my criteria, and around four hours of my time was spent checking their work.

Needless to say, they were 2 bit operators masquerading as pros. Why they thought I wouldn’t notice the use of automation, or the PR of the pages the links were appearing on, I’ll never know, but the sites they submitted to (25% of which were forums or directories) barely managed to be on theme or even remotely related.

This led me to the conclusion that outsourcing was not as straight forward as I originally thought, and I decided to follow up with my friend who was working on the SEO Freelancers web site.

He explained that outsourcing is just part of the picture. In fact, there’s a LOT of people willing to take outsourced SEO work. Far fewer who actually deliver. He said ratings were one way to qualify a provider, but they needed to have a reputation elsewhere as well. A quick search on Google would have sorted that one out.

But the real clincher he said, was another new service (also managed by SEO Freelancers) called Submit Watch, which apparently would have saved me hours, and alerted me of problems within minutes of the campaign commencing. He didn’t go too far into it (more of that NDA stuff), but said it was some sort of proxy scenario and is due for release around the same time as SEO Freelancers goes live.

All I can say is I’ll believe it when I see it. SEO Outsourcing is supposed to be easy !

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