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Hi Guys,

I have been outsourcing SEO on Odesk to people in India, but I have only had bad luck. Within 3 months I have had one guy try to charge double after hos first month,

The second said he was working on it and after 2 weeks disappeared and the 3rd has been working on my SEO for 1 month but no changes in the results. He send weekly reports, but I see no changes in search engines.

My question is, how can i find a really good guy to do my SEO ?

Is there a particular place to go?

and how do you scan them properly to make sure they are legit ?

Would really appreciate some good feedback here.

Thanks Guys.
#outsourcing #seo
  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    I do good quality work, and I do it properly.

    What's your monthly budget?
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  • Profile picture of the author SandraGenJobs
    You can't expect any results after just one month. If you think the third guy is reliable and well organized, then I'd say you should give him a chance. It may take up more than 3 months to actually see the difference. You can't expect thing to change overnight when it comes to SEO. Lastly, when it comes to finding a good SE optimizer, you get what you pay for. Anyone who's willing to do it for peanuts just isn't good enough.
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  • Originally Posted by Davidh27 View Post

    Hi Guys,

    I have been outsourcing SEO on Odesk to people in India, but I have only had bad luck. Within 3 months I have had one guy try to charge double after hos first month,

    The second said he was working on it and after 2 weeks disappeared and the 3rd has been working on my SEO for 1 month but no changes in the results. He send weekly reports, but I see no changes in search engines.

    My question is, how can i find a really good guy to do my SEO ?

    Is there a particular place to go?

    and how do you scan them properly to make sure they are legit ?

    Would really appreciate some good feedback here.

    Thanks Guys.
    I have a team of VAs from the Philippines. I personally trained them, so they know what I know

    Only $150 a month per person. They even do the SEO on my clients sites, so they're very capable

    You can find them on Craigslist manila
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  • Profile picture of the author MarcoYandun
    Hello David,

    My advice is STOP wasting your time with SEO. You better move your efforts and investment into PAID traffic. The best advantage is you have the control, have quick results (almost instantly) and you always can monitor your data so that you can improve your ads doing split testing ...

    Regards,
    Marco
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  • Profile picture of the author aprilaraceli
    Originally Posted by Davidh27 View Post

    Hi Guys,

    I have been outsourcing SEO on Odesk to people in India, but I have only had bad luck. Within 3 months I have had one guy try to charge double after hos first month,

    The second said he was working on it and after 2 weeks disappeared and the 3rd has been working on my SEO for 1 month but no changes in the results. He send weekly reports, but I see no changes in search engines.

    My question is, how can i find a really good guy to do my SEO ?

    Is there a particular place to go?

    and how do you scan them properly to make sure they are legit ?

    Would really appreciate some good feedback here.

    Thanks Guys.
    I am really sorry to hear your bad news. There are many expert & inexpert freelancer in every freelancing market place. You should choose the best one only. Before hiring any freelancer, you should see their previous work report. If you satisfy by the previous work report, then you can hire anyone. Best of luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author kk075
    Originally Posted by Davidh27 View Post

    My question is, how can i find a really good guy to do my SEO ?

    Is there a particular place to go?

    and how do you scan them properly to make sure they are legit ?

    Would really appreciate some good feedback here.

    Thanks Guys.
    Here's the problem David.

    You don't know what SEO is and you don't know how to measure results, so there's nothing here anyone can tell you that would be of any help. For example, the first guy you hired that wanted double after the first month....he could have been a steal at what you were paying him....or he could have been a scam artist. We have no way to know that since you don't know either.

    So before anyone tells you where to look for SEO services, you have to learn a little about SEO yourself. That's how you qualify good ones from bad ones and until you know that, you're going to continue to guess and not get your money's worth.

    One thing I will mention, however, is that real SEO is a process that takes considerable time and effort to be done right. It's building natural backlinks, writing lots of content, optimizing every page, researching keywords, building a social presence, etc....and things like that can't happen overnight. I often spend over 100 hours in the first month alone on a new client's website, so you're talking about a fairly serious budget if you want things completed right. So while I have no idea what you've spent in the past, hopefully you realize that you get what you pay for.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert999
    Originally Posted by Davidh27 View Post

    Hi Guys,

    I have been outsourcing SEO on Odesk to people in India, but I have only had bad luck. Within 3 months I have had one guy try to charge double after hos first month,

    The second said he was working on it and after 2 weeks disappeared and the 3rd has been working on my SEO for 1 month but no changes in the results. He send weekly reports, but I see no changes in search engines.

    My question is, how can i find a really good guy to do my SEO ?

    Is there a particular place to go?

    and how do you scan them properly to make sure they are legit ?

    Would really appreciate some good feedback here.

    Thanks Guys.
    It may takes 4-6 months to see difference in search rankings after doing some SEO. Outsourcing SEO Work to someone who don't know his work is very dangerous. Most of these "SEO guys" actually ruin your website ranking by doing stupid things like backlinks spamming and keywords stuffing etc. Be Careful!
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