I was contacted today by a guy who was nice enough to point out a broken link on this website. Very cool of him (thanks, Tim). After I sent Tim a thank you email he replied with a question about finding a good overseas (inexpensive) service provider who can help with search engine optimization (SEO), and especially link building (an important part of SEO). Tim is not the only person looking for the holy grail of SEO service providers (cheap and effective), but in my experience – as with so many other services – quality SEO and link building is best done onshore, rather than offshore. That’s why we still do almost all of this type of work in-house ourselves. Here’s a paraphrasing of my brief email exchange with Tim:
[Tim]: Do you happen to know a good, reputable outsourcing company for SEO/Link Building? I read your reviews of outsourcing firms, Brickwork and Get Friday, with interest, and visited both sites (including the parent YMII) – not really suited to this work, as far as I can tell. Any info is most appreciated.
[Jeremy]: Hi, Tim. I’ve spent a good bit of time working with outsourced link builders, and to be quite honest I always find that it’s work that’s best done in-house (with the exception of content syndication (ie: article and press release syndication) which, after the actual article writing (which we do ourselves), is fairly mechanical). Bottom line, effective link building (like writing) requires an understanding of the client that overseas contractors so often don’t have.
Don’t get me wrong, there are people in India and China, and elsewhere, who will charge you for SEO and link building services, but the links they create are very often worthless. They don’t cost much, but cheap junk is still junk.
Wish I had a cheap SEO provider to refer you to, but SEO and link building is hard work, and because of the subjective nature of the work, in my experience it hasn’t been well suited for overseas contractors.
If you find a good, cheap SEO and link building contractor, let me know. But I bet they won’t be cheap for long!
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Hi Guys,
You are right. Effective link building requires an understanding of the clients actual requirement. Simply going out and building 100′s of worthless links from unrelated low quality blogs/forums is certainly not going to do wonders for your positioning.
While I am not trying to blatantly promote our business, our USP here at Pragmites is to understand what your objectives are. Based on which we develop a full fledged link building strategy get that approved and then move ahead with it.
The really eliminates any kind of possibility of not being satisfied. Having worked with over 200 clients based in North America, Australia and Europe we are pretty proud of what we have accomplished.
We are actively involved with portals such as Elance where there are a fair amount of Link building projects that we have worked on. If someone is interested in giving us a shot I would be happy to provide you with our transparent reporting, case studies etc etc.
I do hope we are able to be become the holy grail of SEO service providers someday!
Cheers,
Gaurav