Offshore SEO Providers - Recommendation?
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Hi Folks
Has anyone had a very good experience with an offshore SEO provider who they would be happy to share? I am looking for a professional offshore firm to manage a 100 Long Tail key word campaign. Social Media, facebook campaign experience a bonus.
Kind Thanks, Justin
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Kind Thanks Guys, this is CLEAR.
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Yes ... brought it all in house to ensure that we stayed 100% whitehat. Spent A LOT of time removing and disavowing spammy links. Once that was completed, rankings IMMEDIATELY rose causing our quality content to actually be seen by people. Our content was high quality and unique which resulted in it immediately being linked to by big sites like CNN, Fortune, WSJ, etc which caused 1,000 little niche sites to link to it as well which resulted in an even bigger boost. When everything went bad, it went bad quickly ... and when everything went right, it shot up like a rocket. They key, as everyone else says, seems to be to provide well structured quality content and the rankings will take care of themselves.
Most important thing I have learned so far: Provide quality content that is well structured according to the principles found here on Moz and your rankings and backlinks will take care of themselves. If I had done that from the beginning when I started in March, my sites would be 3 to 4 times more successful than they are now. All it takes is a week or two to read and watch EVERYTHING that this site has to offer ...
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What was your solution? Did you end up bringing everything in house to recover? We had to do that in the backlinking area and for original written content in order to make a comeback. It is still touch and go to this day though as we're still in recovery mode too.
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I hired an offshore seo provider from India about 6 months ago ... within 30 days, my traffic dropped by 90%. It took me four months to recover ... just sayin'
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+1 to Chris. I've had nothing but low value, spammy links. In fact many of those spammy links were lost with the latest Google update and caused our rankings to drop. To find someone to manage that many different campaign keywords is going to be tough, especially over seas. I find that they do not have access to the same resources like we have here at MOZ.
In fact most of the time I ended up providing the exact instructions for what I wanted to do. Hopefully it doesn't come across poorly, but there seemed to be no independent thinking into the backlinking strategy either. I mean there were no links built from industry leaders, trusted manufacturers, guest blogging opportunities, etc. All just directory postings and profile builds on random websites. And for a regional service provider (US based company), I feel that links built on websites outside of the US are not even relevant.
In my opinion the person you are looking for may need to be an in-house employee. You can still use contractors to help on other parts of your project. But especially something like social media engagement, you may want to shy away from over seas developers.
All that being said and done - if it works, it works. Best of luck in finding that special person - good help is hard to find!
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I'm afraid I do not, however I've found many people have trouble with off shore due to not understanding (or knowing) about the regional impact of links (amongst other things) and on top you will find you get very spammy links, in the long term its not worth it.
Having said that you may find some one here knows a good company (can't put everyone under the same banner can you!)
I recommend researching whoever you think about and carefully weight up the risk involved you can muck up SEO very quickly and easily and it can take a long time to recover from one mistake
Best of luck,.
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