What's better to boost your SEO, a virtual assistant or pay for link services?

by myaple
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What would you prefer to boost you SEO?

Hire a virtual assistant (I've seen prices around 300$/month in this forum)

or

Invest that amount paying for several link services
#assistant #boost #link #pay #seo #services #virtual
  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    Virtual Assistant: You need to train them to do what you want - but they will do exactly what you want and how you want it done.

    Linking Services: You pay for someone who a lot of times pays someone else to make links for you, or in some cases they use some nice spamming software to make you links.

    You decide.
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  • Profile picture of the author sovereignn
    It really depends, virtual assistants can be very inexperienced and you'll have to train them which could take months.

    If you find one who knows what he's doing then yes that would be the better route of course. It would help save you hundreds just training them to map out professional strategies can be sort of hard (especially since they're not professionals )
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    • Hi Sovereignn,
       
      Originally Posted by sovereignn View Post

      It really depends, virtual assistants can be very inexperienced and you'll have to train them which could take months.
       
      Most freelancers, especially in white hat SEO and effective traffic generation: Yes, though this won't most likely be accurate with professional content researcher/writer employees, especially if they're trained and supervised by a team of SEO and traffic generation trainors and content Q/A supervisors of a firm...
       
      A firm implements constantly monitored, well-formulated hiring, training and management processes. A firm also provides necessary equipment and tools to promote a well-balanced life:work environment for their employees and managers, so they can provide excellent services to their customers. Daily work output is also standardized, so their employees have clearly defined daily output goals, in terms of volume and overall quality. So, these professionals can be assigned as your dedicated subcontractors to do these tasks for you on a daily basis, following a schedule:
       
      • Write content for your site and products. Post and format your onsite content and products for optimal presentation value for your viewers...
      • Develop a useful digital info product, such as a written guide/tutorial. Post this product as an affiliate product in affiliate networks. Offer a 90% or more commissions per sale percentage. You'll most surely integrate your mailing list subscription process into the sales page on your site for this product, so buyers can opt-in as your mailing list subscribers. This way, you entice others to become your affiliates and drive more buyer traffic to your site, build contextually relevant backlinks pointing to your site and populate your mailing list subscriber bases with buyer traffic, for you...
       
      • Implement content syndication campaigns to drive more quality traffic to your site and products. You also get contextually relevant backlinks with your content that's syndicated by high authority sites in your niche. Your dedicated subcontractor can submit your onsite content for syndication to directories with a publisher network comprised of webmasters looking for contextually relevant content that they can publish on their sites and ezines for their readership and mailing list subscriber bases...

      • Develop unique content and implement guest authoring campaigns to drive more traffic to your site. You also get contextually relevant backlinks in high authority sites in your niche with large readership and mailing list subscriber bases...
      • Post in contextually relevant social networks, such as Web forums, blogs and online social communities/groups with large membership and readership bases. This will drive more traffic to your site and diversify your contextually relevant backlinks...

      For less frequent tasks: Purchase per project order services. These may include video development and submission services and niche/keyword/affiliate product research services among others...

      I recommend implementing Google Adwords, Yahoo! and Facebook PPC campaigns, as well as solo ads and private ad space rentals in contextually relevant, high authority sites in your niche with large readership, membership and mailing list subscriber bases. This is more effective than purchasing pay per link offers, especially since I believe the primary objective is to drive more traffic, populate your mailing list with buyer traffic, get more sales, establish a mutually beneficial professional relationship with repeat buyers and get them to refer your site and products to their networks. This also means you get fresh onsite content and natural backlinks, both of which are included in the most recent Google algorithm updates...
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  • Profile picture of the author testandtag365
    If you want to make your promotion globally in short time duration then the better option is pay for link as PPC. In PPC it totally works on campaign and price of it. If your campaign price is high then you can increase your targeted area with targeted keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author WF99
    hmm .. when both are available ..
    I will choose virtual assistance i guess ..
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  • Profile picture of the author GlobalMedia
    If you know your **** and you have done your homework, then VA is the best choice to go with. They will do exactly what you want them to do and kinda links you want them to make to your site.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author checklinks
    why you pay amount to rank site on google.
    Just write daily one article and submit in article sites. you will find huge improvement in your site ranking by article site.
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  • Profile picture of the author mosthost
    Don't use either. Spend the money on making your website better.
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    • A virtual assistant is definitely a better choice. She has the skills and knowledge to promote your website in search engines and drive targeted traffic to your website. Some virtual assistants also specialize in copywriting, web marketing, and web design.
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      • Profile picture of the author myaple
        Thx for all the answers.

        What do you think is a fair price for a VA?

        Not taking into account xrumer,amr,bmd and scrapebox, which linking service would you recommend?
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        • Profile picture of the author seotrafficsearch
          Originally Posted by myaple View Post

          Thx for all the answers.

          What do you think is a fair price for a VA?

          Not taking into account xrumer,amr,bmd and scrapebox, which linking service would you recommend?
          I would rather prefer manual link building service. Usually the link building applications leave spammy comments which could have dangerous implications.
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    • Profile picture of the author cooler1
      Originally Posted by mosthost View Post

      Don't use either. Spend the money on making your website better.
      By doing that how will your site rise in the SERPs? By the magical "natural linking" which Big G goes on about?
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  • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
    Whomever gets the best results that are in alignment with what you want to achieve and what you want to pay.

    You really cannot make a generalized statement because all virtual assistance are not alike and all SEO companies are not alike.

    You would have to find the best virtual assistant that gets the results that you want for the price you want to pay and then do the same with the SEO companies and then choose which one is best for you for what you want and what you want to pay.

    Since different people may want different results and may want to pay different amounts, this could be a different answer for everyone.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnRozario
    VA- Its depends on the person, sometimes you have to teach them all the skills. Sometimes the VA already has some knowledge, so it becomes a bit easy.
    You can use VA for WhiteHatSeo
    Link Building service- They use softwares like senukex, scrapebox, xrumer to create backlinks which is greyhat or blackhat.
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  • Profile picture of the author faceblogger
    It depends on your business plans and model
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  • Profile picture of the author TheProgrammer
    i will suggest you build backlinks by yourself, rely on other cheap va may harm your site rank.
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  • Profile picture of the author cartman
    Virtual assistants - provided they know the stuff and know what they are doing.
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  • Profile picture of the author SarahMcCrary
    Go for SEO packages that best suits your business model. You'll find lots of companies providing SEO services at affordable rates. Virtual Assistants are like robots. You tell them to walk, they start walking, you tell them to stop, they stop. SEO companies have professionals who could put some extra efforts as well. They even uses the latest SEO techniques in the town to get your site ranked in search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author amberrosevn
    I think a virtual assistant. VA can help you all services consist of SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gerald Arno
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    Who you should hire or what service you should be using depends on a number of factors, including:

    1) Your monthly budget
    2) How many websites/keywords you intend to rank
    3) Duration of backlinking
    4) How competitive the keywords are
    5) How much money you think you can make


    The benefits of hiring your own virtual assistant are:
    -Having the ability to teach the person the way you want it
    -Hiring someone who has past success with ranking websites
    -Reviewing his work more consistently and openly (unlike to SEO services)
    -You can let him work your own system

    The disadvantages are:
    -You might need to spend some time to teach the person properly
    -You might be limited by only hiring one person
    -You need to invest into SEO software, tools and even networks

    The benefits of using services are:
    -Everyting is completely outsourced
    -You don't have costs for software
    -You can find a provider with good customer feedback
    -You can choose multiple providers to optimally diversify your backlinking

    The disadvantages of using services:
    -Monthly costs might be higher, especially when using multiple services
    -You don't have a 100% control over how the services build backlinks
    -You might need to wait long until the linkbuilding is completed
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  • Profile picture of the author uoftenwinny
    yes, it depends.
    I think if it's a company, it should buy some link services.
    and also you can hire SEO people to work for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Hansen
    I would prefer to have a Virtual Assistant. But you need to have the experienced one. The VA is a lot better since you get to have a closer look and very much accessible at hand. Plus you pay both. So why not try out outsourcing.


    Let me know if I can help you Warrior to Warrior.

    Good luck
    Peter
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