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Outsource backlinks

by IMSue
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Hi Warriors,

Already tried this once I am going to place a add on Elance or Odesk to purchase backlinks.

What should I be asking for in the job posting to ensure that I get only quality backlinks that will help my website (not hurt it).

Bottom line is that I do not want garbage.

Thanks everyone!!!
#backlinks #outsource
  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    Originally Posted by IMSue View Post

    Hi Warriors,

    Already tried this once I am going to place a add on Elance or Odesk to purchase backlinks.

    What should I be asking for in the job posting to ensure that I get only quality backlinks that will help my website (not hurt it).

    Bottom line is that I do not want garbage.

    Thanks everyone!!!
    The term "if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys" comes to mind. If your looking for quality link builders, why are you placing adds in a monkey sanctuary? Every response to your ad is no doubt going to tell you whatever you want to hear to get your money.

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  • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
    Originally Posted by IMSue View Post

    Hi Warriors,

    Already tried this once I am going to place a add on Elance or Odesk to purchase backlinks.

    What should I be asking for in the job posting to ensure that I get only quality backlinks that will help my website (not hurt it).

    Bottom line is that I do not want garbage.

    Thanks everyone!!!
    Let me guess, you are willing to pay 5 dollars for high PR backlinks with wuality content on authoritative and related sites, you will get 40 or more proposals, and one of the is going to tell you he can do it for free in exchange of your review, you are going to accept it and when you get a blast of spammy links you are going to come here and say that SEO is over and that Google is so evil...... How do I know this? I have a crystal ball..
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  • Profile picture of the author LloydMS
    You can definitely find quality providers on eLance or odesk for SEO. I have friends who are providers there to earn a few extra dollars when they have time.

    The issue is not that you're using an outsourcer. The issue is the types of backlinks you are asking them to build.

    At this point, I'm incredibly careful about any backlink to a money site. Basically, if I can't control the link, I'm not creating it. I'm pretty much sticking to links from PBN sites, web 2.0s that I manage, and high quality manual blog comments.

    So if you go to eLance and ask them to create social bookmarks, article directory posts, spam comments, etc. . . . that's what you're going to get. They might be great social bookmark links. But they are still social bookmark links, and that might not give you the results you need.

    So the only outsourcing of link building that I would do is specifically creating high quality blog comments on relevant blogs. And you can be very specific about this. Tell them you want posts that are on blogs relevant to your site's niche, with a PR1 or better, not many other outbound links, dofollow, and that the comment must be in response to the blog post - nothing generic like "great post" but something that is real and if read by the blog's owner will be allowed to remain.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
      Originally Posted by LloydMS View Post

      At this point, I'm incredibly careful about any backlink to a money site. Basically, if I can't control the link, I'm not creating it. I'm pretty much sticking to links from PBN sites, web 2.0s that I manage, and high quality manual blog comments.
      ???

      Sorry that makes no sense to me. You don't control any web2 or blog comment, the owners of the sites do. They can click a button at any time and do whatever they like to your links. Completely out of your control, by any stretch of the imagination.

      I hope the P in PBN is for Private too, because Public Blog Networks have an average shelf life of about 6 months these days, and you have no control over whats posted or done with those sites either.

      PR hasn't been updated in almost a year, and your still basing link procurement on that too?

      Having read that, I think your idea of quality is a far lesser and misguided standard then mine.
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      • Profile picture of the author LloydMS
        For a blog comment, I'm in complete control over the site's I choose, the pages I put the comment on, and what the comment is. There is virtually no risk that putting a manual comment, relevant to your niche, relevant to the post it's on, on a high quality page will result in any type of Google penalty. So fine, I'm not in complete control in the sense that the blog owner has the right to not display the comment. But if it's a good, real comment that truly addresses what the post was about, it will likely be accepted. And it's not going to come back to bite me. I'm comparing this to any type of automated blog commenting.

        And web 2.0s, sure I'm in complete control over them. I create the web 2.0. I'm the one who puts posts on them. I choose what links to place in the posts. And I can always remove those posts (and links) any time that I want.

        Yes, PR hasn't been updated. But you can still find lots of good posts to place manual comments on that do have a PR. If you want to use PA then great.
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        • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
          Originally Posted by LloydMS View Post

          For a blog comment, I'm in complete control over the site's I choose, the pages I put the comment on, and what the comment is. There is virtually no risk that putting a manual comment, relevant to your niche, relevant to the post it's on, on a high quality page will result in any type of Google penalty. So fine, I'm not in complete control in the sense that the blog owner has the right to not display the comment. But if it's a good, real comment that truly addresses what the post was about, it will likely be accepted. And it's not going to come back to bite me. I'm comparing this to any type of automated blog commenting.

          And web 2.0s, sure I'm in complete control over them. I create the web 2.0. I'm the one who puts posts on them. I choose what links to place in the posts. And I can always remove those posts (and links) any time that I want.

          Yes, PR hasn't been updated. But you can still find lots of good posts to place manual comments on that do have a PR. If you want to use PA then great.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jonny2spoons
    You will have to sift through a lot of crappy guys on odesk to get to the good ones, and even then you won't know how good they are until they either kill your page or boost it a few places up the rankings.

    If it's not your money site and you just want some cheap links then fiverr is as good as anywhere.

    For money site tread very carefully and don't risk a slap down from big g.
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  • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
    Freelancing websites will mostly provide you with the lowest quality links possible.

    How do I know?

    Because I tried hiring over 80 link builders from these sites over the last 4 years and most of them were not good at link building etc.

    If you want good links, you need to pay more and go with agencies whose sole job is to get you these high quality links.

    Also, Fiverr gigs are horrible for link building
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by YasirYar View Post

      Because I tried hiring over 80 link builders from these sites over the last 4 years and most of them were not good at link building etc.
      Thanks for saving me a lot of time

      Last time I asked someone to manually source link opportunities he came up with 50 live bookmarks and 25 article directory links. :rolleyes:

      At least better then the VA that I'm testing now that gave me 3 out of 4 non working bookmarks and 2 video links in 1.5 day.
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      • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
        Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

        Thanks for saving me a lot of time

        Last time I asked someone to manually source link opportunities he came up with 50 live bookmarks and 25 article directory links. :rolleyes:

        At least better then the VA that I'm testing now that gave me 3 out of 4 non working bookmarks and 2 video links in 1.5 day.
        LOL yeah, be careful.

        If only link building were so simple
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