Links Building from contractors on eLance.com
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Hi,
I never hire somebody to create link building to point to our sites.
On eLance.com you can hire a SEO contractor to build link our your domaine.
New to SEO, is worth it to do so?
Is there things I should should be careful about?
Things I need to clarify before hiring somebody?
Things I need to confirm or ask before hiring such contractors?
Most of those ''SEO Expert'' are from India and some have perfect ratings on this site.
I have 2 eCommerce sites and we only have a average of 3 sales a day. I can't afford price companies are asking in North America. For a lot less, eLance maybe the solution for our home base business.
What is your advice on this?
Thank you
BigBlaze
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I woudn't use that place it can't be possible for them to vet standards. If you click on any of those big company names it seems to take you to media coverage about freelancers not that those companies use that site.
I found your site from its name within your profile, you have no page descriptions and all your page titles are the same which is keyword cannibilization. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-solve-keyword-cannibalization
You need to get onsite as best as you can before you do offsite (e.g. link building). I would suggest that SEO moz is a good source of information to learn to be able to do it yourself if that's an option for you.
"Open Site Explorer" tool on SEOmoz finds links. The starter guide PDF is a good place to start, I got to about chapter 7 then most of what I learnt is from the search box on here for the relevant terms like "exact match domain" or "meta tags" etc.
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Hi Jean,
My advice would be very careful when it comes to hiring freelancers to build links to your site. There are some excellent freelancers out there but its a case of you get what you pay for.
Link building is evolving rapidly and yesterdays tactics such as blog commenting and 2.0 links etc generally do more damage than good, if you have a small budget then the majority of overseas link builders will be using these methods.
If you do decide to go ahead make sure you ask for examples of their previous work and review the kind of links they build, if they look spammy then stay away.
I would think about implementing a content based link building strategy or finding a freelancer who will. There are some great blog posts on here with ideas of how to do that.
Hope this helps,
Ben
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