Which SEO Firm/Expert to Use?

Personally I think that Distilled are a very reputable and knowledgeable crowd.

But you could also do some yourself, guest blogging is a particular favourite of mine and all you have to do is what you normally do for your own site, only submit those articles elsewhere.

To be honest I'll say that $400-800 will be tough for any reputable SEO firm. Distilled is a top tier firm whose prices start at $5,000/mo. Heck, I'm a freelancer an my monthly eCommerce link building is 50% cost of their!

Most larger firms who are charging around $500/mo will have a lot of clients. Possibly anywhere from 20 - 100, and potentially only 2, maybe 3 people managing them.

With that said, there is only time in the day/budget on their end for lower level tactics. I've seen this first hand in the past. Maybe they will take $150 of your budget and go buy a few anchor text links through a link broker. Maybe a few outsourced articles will be written and distributed. Maybe a few bookmarks.

I'm not trying to discourage you, but I would ask yourself the following questions:
1. What content do I have that is valuable to my potential market?
2. Who are the current players/bloggers/influences in this niche?

I would answer these question, and outreach to them. Getting guest blogs, or some other arrangement on their site who already have a captive audience can result in actual click thru.

I really like the advise of Kaiser the Sage for link building. Maybe you can uncover some ideas from there, test, document and outsource under your budget.

Feel free to contact me OP, I can help.

You can get experts in help through freelancing sites. Go to Odesk and find someone who is expert in SEO link building. There are thousands of professionals available there. This is the best possible way you can get good quality links for your website.

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You will always need to build links, unless you're already part of a well-known company that gets tons of exposure through various forms of advertising.

Some link building techniques are targeted, yes, but that's easy to spot and avoid.

I highly recommend Nik0's service here on WF.

And no, I'm not an affiliate.

I've used SEO & Link Building Services | Fast, Affordable & GUARANTEED! for many of my seo needs. The head is an expert and really knows what he is talking about as he has been doing it for around eight years full time and has pushed through all Googles scary updates.

I have tried many seo providers in my time and he is one of the very few i still keep in contact with and someone i can always trust. I would drop him an email.

Hope this helps

If you have limited budget then Indian SEO firms make sense.

OP with all due respect this is probably one of the worst places to ask for those kinds of services and never ever put your budget out there in the open or you will get all kinds of suggestions.

Ehh i might aswell throw my name in the mix. Check my signature

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Better do SEO by yourself only..Only 2 hours dedicated SEO work is also beneficiary to your site.

To the OP, there are 4 types of SEOs you can get.

TYPE I)
Amateur B*lack hatters. These guys abuse automated tools and will just ruin your site with spammy links. Stay a mile from them. Black hatters who know what they are doing will probably be making too much money to be offering any form of SEO services.

TYPE II)
Those who have read an ebook or two about SEO and are now offering link building services. This SEO type usually build links by using automated and semi-automated tools and they usually provide services for Social Bookmarking Submission, RSS Feed directory submission, Directory Submission, article spinning and directory submission, forum account creation and submission, populated with spun article blog creation from free blog sites, squidoo lense creation, hub page creation, etc. Such services are relatively useful if you have several disposable sites as sooner or later, Google will penalize you for using these grey hat methods. These methods usually do not pass a lot of authority to your target domain, but they do pass enough if you are after rankings for low competition keyword terms. Such services are popular for those webmasters with many sites. These methods worked well 7 years ago, but I find them just a waste of tiem these days. It is just creating unnecessary risk if you are promoting a real authroity site.

TYPE III)
The third group are SEOs are those who have their own large, high PR private blog networks (PBN). The best of the SEOs here on the WF will fall into this category. These pbn methods work very well even in the post penguin atmosphere for low to medium competition phrases. All you have to ensure is that you get a lot of diversity in the anchor link text and that the blog networks are not spammy in any way and are as seemingly real blogs with real traffic as possible. The only drawback to using these blog networks is that google has decimated the most public of the private blog networks recently, so the fear hear is if your PBN will be next.

TYPE IV)
The fourth group which you will unlikely find on the WF are those SEOs that put in-context links to your site on real authority niche specific sites. These are the dream team SEOs. The only drawaback to them is that such services are very expensive and are slower to show results. But once the results start showing, you may find your pages ranking for boat load of multiple long tail terms in addition to your targetted phrases. This is because the links they get you pass on real authority to your sites. Also note that such SEOs will not work with any old site. Your site must be of a certain quality.

What I would recommend you do is that you buy another domain and get it indexed. This will be your spare domain in case you get decimated by Google. Getting it spidered and indexed now will help you avoid any apparent "sandbox" in case you need to move your content later.

Meanwhile start with a good PBN and get your rankings moving. Make sure the PBN you use will be able to remove your links if need be at a later date. Also submit a few press releases. After 6 months or so after you get a bit of ongoing incoming income using the PBN, then hire the services of the Type IV SEOs in order to dominate your niche completely.