SEO - In-house or third party?
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Hi All,
I need a genuine advice from the SEO experts on my problem - Should I hire an SEO expert to work in-house or work with a third-party and outsource the SEO work?
More in details...
I have a dating portal and I have been working with third-parties who have been working on my list of keywords for SEO for this portal. The 1st company who I hired wasn't doing a good job and had to switch to a new company after 4 months.
The 2nd company started working on 10-15 keywords and its been 6 months but they could get only 3-4 keywords to the top 10. Though this company is working on a contract system, where we would pay the balance only once they get all the keywords to the top, they haven't been able to deliver. And I am only losing traffic to my site and spending more on PPC!
The reasons which they give why they are not able to deliver:
> "We have done 1500 good quality back-linking. Doing more might result in Google penalizing the site. Also, we are waiting for the Google update."
> The competition is tough (no doubt it is tough since we are targeting 'dating' related keywords which have a high competition).
> Give us more time as we keep trying.
What I have been thinking?
I could hire an SEO/PPC expert who could work exclusively full time at my office an d concentrate on the keywords. And since dating is a vast field, we could cover more keywords over time (ofcourse targetting only 8-10 keywords at a give point of time) and also manage the PPC campaigns?
What are your suggestions?
I need a genuine advice from the SEO experts on my problem - Should I hire an SEO expert to work in-house or work with a third-party and outsource the SEO work?
More in details...
I have a dating portal and I have been working with third-parties who have been working on my list of keywords for SEO for this portal. The 1st company who I hired wasn't doing a good job and had to switch to a new company after 4 months.
The 2nd company started working on 10-15 keywords and its been 6 months but they could get only 3-4 keywords to the top 10. Though this company is working on a contract system, where we would pay the balance only once they get all the keywords to the top, they haven't been able to deliver. And I am only losing traffic to my site and spending more on PPC!
The reasons which they give why they are not able to deliver:
> "We have done 1500 good quality back-linking. Doing more might result in Google penalizing the site. Also, we are waiting for the Google update."
> The competition is tough (no doubt it is tough since we are targeting 'dating' related keywords which have a high competition).
> Give us more time as we keep trying.
What I have been thinking?
I could hire an SEO/PPC expert who could work exclusively full time at my office an d concentrate on the keywords. And since dating is a vast field, we could cover more keywords over time (ofcourse targetting only 8-10 keywords at a give point of time) and also manage the PPC campaigns?
What are your suggestions?
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VladWorks -
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ravimittal -
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DebbieD -
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