cheapest linkbuilding service?

RandomTemplate · #1 08-02-2010, 06:26 PM

Never used one before, seen a lot of varying prices.

Have any of you used a link building service, how good were the results & how much did it cost, was it targeted and all that.

Trying to work out price/time ratio (is my time more valuable than theres etc) If you do provide these services, check out my website, see the keywords etc then quote me a price & what I can expect in return for it.

Kip FX Design · #2 09-02-2010, 09:06 AM

Dude, this is one thing I would advise against, and if you do end up going with it, do not go cheap, otherwise you will end up with loads of dead links and negative affect links dropped in by a room of grunts in SE Asia or Brazil.

Look into this one properly!

RandomTemplate · #3 09-02-2010, 09:09 AM

Thats why I'm trying to find out who people have used with results.

My main issue is I don't trust SEO companies, but at the same time if I can find one that does what they say then its probably cheaper to hire them than it is for me to do it & take time away from paying clients. So just looking for forum views.

Maslins · #4 09-02-2010, 09:53 AM

I get emails all the time from people offering link building services, most can't even write English in whole sentences.

I agree with you RT that I don't trust SEO companies. I simply don't understand what they do for their money, especially the pay monthly ones. I understand the onsite optimisation, but surely that's one off work?! You hear all this talk about white/black hat, but other than sorting your title tags & H1s...what do they actually do?! Link build? All too fishy for me to say "Ok, take my £100/500/whatever a month & work some magic".

But, as Kip says, I've heard some horror stories of people paying for a cheap link build service and ending up with various dodgy sites linking to them which causes more harm than good.

RandomTemplate · #5 09-02-2010, 09:58 AM

On-Site SEO is something i've done a few hundred times, most like the stuff you put there, keyword analysis n crap like that, link building is something I could do but would cause me major stress so looking for an out to avoid it lol

IP · #6 09-02-2010, 10:11 AM

On the same note, not something I like doing, but not something I would trust to some unknown in India.

Not sure if she is still doing it, but I believe Nicksyb (on this forum) was offering a well priced, intelligent link building service, might be worth dropping her a PM.

JohnHutson · #7 09-02-2010, 10:34 AM

Absolutely one to be careful of. I've been fortunate enough to find a great assistant for my link building efforts.

I do currently allow people to use her services: Link Building Service | SEO Tips and Advice | Social Media Strategies and News

The above is for reference and I am not "selling"

- but wanted to let you know there are "good guys" out there

My personal suggestion is to start small if you're going to do it and see how they perform. Some links may be questionable on quality but I wouldn't worry about that too much. Why? Because it adds to your mix. No one has only high quality links pointing to them.

Plus - you'd be surprised as to what Google believes to be high quality links, even if they look far from it from a human perspective.

You may want to test a keyword with some moderate competition to see how you change in your rankings.

What may be an idea is to use these kind of services as an ongoing campaign and back it up with your own link building that you are more meticulous about.

Cathy · #8 09-02-2010, 08:53 PM

To me, the reason most SEO companies focus on the onsite omptimisation is because that's the 'easy' stuff. It may be time consuming if you have 100's and 100's of pages to edit all the H1 tags etc etc but it's a definite goal with a definite end in sight.

With link building, as far as I can see you can go one of two ways, cheap, which from what I've seen is mostly scripts sending automated requests to be included in directories which offer little if any value and I still believe risk you being seen by Google as in a 'bad neighbourhood'.

If you look back to the reasoning behind Pagerank, Sergei and Larry where very much academics. So, they were used to the idea that if a paper was published and of great use that many people would reference it. So, more and more people would reference the works which referenced the original work and so on. Links of the pre-internet variety. In fact when I was at college (in the pre-internet - not prehistoric

) days I used to use books called the Science Citation Index. This and others like it were simply lists of all the times an author had been referenced in other journal articles.

I don't think way back when, the Google guys really thought about the commercial equivalent and how that would differ from academia. And so they translated the citations as 'votes' into the links as 'votes'. What I suspect they never really considered was that most people producing research/journal articles do not do so with the main or even any aim of building up 'votes' through being referenced.

Sorry if this is all rather long winded but I think it's quite important in link building. It needs to be 'natural'. That's why (as far as I understand) Google will still look suspiciously on a site which suddenly acquires rapidly a high number of links.

Matt Cutts has written in the past about link bait which I think is worth taking a look at.

I don't think you can beat 'doing it yourself' though. And there are lots of good ways to get ideas of where to link. I quite often look at competitors link listings in Yahoo and start cliking on them to find ones that we could get a link from, for example.

Interlinkdirectory · #9 10-02-2010, 12:31 PM

We'd say buyer beware when it comes to outsourcing or buying in your link building.

We have on past projects tried various link buidling services and have been disappointed each time. For different reasons but generally it hinges around quality. There are so many things to consider when link building such as speed, relevancy, type, quality, it's an art all of it's own. When you outsource this or externlise it to your business more often than not you will find a compromise or corner has been cut.

Best to keep it in house and work in into your general business activity.

JohnHutson · #10 10-02-2010, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Interlinkdirectory

We'd say buyer beware when it comes to outsourcing or buying in your link building.

We have on past projects tried various link buidling services and have been disappointed each time. For different reasons but generally it hinges around quality. There are so many things to consider when link building such as speed, relevancy, type, quality, it's an art all of it's own. When you outsource this or externlise it to your business more often than not you will find a compromise or corner has been cut.

Best to keep it in house and work in into your general business activity.

I kinda agree but generally speaking, you're not going to have time to get some quantity under your belts - especially with everything else a business owner has to deal with.

If you view these links as bulking up your quantity and you try to add the high quality ones yourself, you would well be onto a winner.

Either that or source some links and ask them to do it for you.

Also the term "cheap/cheapest" is likely to get you sub par results, but you can still get great services for low prices. Just unfortunately a lot of trialling.

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