In my previous article about outsourcing backlinks, I recommended oDesk, which allows you to outsource a variety of different tasks. You simply post an advert with a description of what you want doing and how much your budget is. Usually within a few hours you will have a handful of applications for the job you are outsourcing.

Since posting the original outsourcing backlinks article, I have had several PM’s, emails and comments asking me to give the names of the users I outsourced my backlinks to, or an example of the advert I had posted. Now, Im not going to give out the names of the users I outsourced to – I’m keeping them for me, but I will give an example of how to advertise on oDesk for backlinks.

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Title: 120 Profiles with backlinks from Angelas Packets.

Descriptions:

I need 120 profiles creating on websites from Angelas or Pauls Packets.You MUST already have the backlink packets.

You will need to create an email address (either Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail) and to create all the profiles with. I will supply you with a username and 2 links to put in each profile.

You will need to supply me a spreadsheet with the URL of the backlinks and the username and password of the profile.

All the backlinks must be created within 48 hours of the job being accepted. All backlinks must be created by hand, no automated software.

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Thats it, simple and to the point. Remember that a lot of the people applying the job wont speak fluent English so try and keep it as easy to understand as possible. Obviously you can specify other things such as only to use page rank 7 sites, or only use sites from packets from 2009 – just remember to keep it as easy to understand as possible.

My other piece of advice would be that when you give the job to someone DO NOT close the job. There are some people on oDesk that will mess you around and not bother working – just cancel the job (you dont pay them), and select someone else. If you close the job you have to mess around creating a new advert and waiting for more users to apply for it.

So now you know how to outsource backlinks, head over to oDesk and started!

A month ago I did a follow up review for Angelas Backlinks which I had been running for a couple of weeks. Since that post I have received another packet from Angela, and also unsubscribed.

I received Mays packet and worked through the whole packet in one shot. A couple of days later I went through and checked what links were still there and which had been deleted. 3 or 4 of them had been removed and the rest were still in place. I also noticed that my IP, domain and email had all been blacklisted on a VBulletin spam site. This prevents me from signing up to any new VBulletin sites which use the same plugin. With about 25 new links built the site moved up in the rankings from 5th & 6th to 3rd & 4th and then finally up to 2nd & 3rd.

So for each site I have built the links for I have had a decent jump in SERP, so why have I unsubscribed? The simple answer is the amount of people using these packets is too high. As soon as the packets are released the sites get a massive hit of traffic and start putting measures in place to stop the unwanted traffic, including marking users as spammers. What I will say though is that the TYPE of links do work and Angela’s backlink packets also do work! So rather than buying the link packets and hitting the same sites as everybody else resulting in sites being blacklisted, links being lost etc I have decided to find my own links.

The links are the same type of links as Angelas except I can sneak a handful of profiles in over a couple of weeks, rather than the site being hit with thousands of new users within days. Sure it takes longer as I have to find the sites in the first place, but once you have a decent list you can use the same sites over and over again without being noticed. Not only that but you can find niche specific pages!

As an example, I was looking for some video games links, I managed to find 36 at PR4-PR7 in about 45 minutes. If you count all the sites I found, PR1-PR7 (didnt record the PR0 sites), I found a total of 59 sites! 59 sites, all with dofollow links, in the niche I want to target that arent going to get spammed and my links removed!

Tips for helping your profiles go undetected…

1) Do not use a product/website name as your username. For example if the site you are promoting is “BlueWidgets.com” do not sign up with the username “BlueWidgets”. This makes it obvious that you are there for one reason only! Use a ‘normal’ forum name such as “John1456″.

2) Do not use an email address linked to your website. Again if you are going to be promoting BlueWidgets, dont use the email address admin@BlueWidgets.com. If the website has accounts manually approved the chances are you arent going to get through!

3) Some people think that by posting in the forum it will help your profile get indexed quicker. This is true, but if you just spam the forum your account will get deleted and you will lose the links anyway. Only post in the forums if you have a valid post to make.

Last week I posted my Angelas Backlink Packets review after a couple of days of using them. This is an update of how well Angela’s Backlinks are working for me.

On Monday, I received an email from Angela with links to the April backlink packets. To try and stop spammers and people distributing the lists around the internet Angela has taken steps to protect the documents. The protection comes in the form of you needing to enter your email address, which is then checked to make sure you are allowed to open the document. There are several problems with the new protection though, including only being able to open it on one machine, not being able to copy it to a word document, or even print it!

I also had a problem with the first document saying I had opened it on too many machines, despite only opening it on one machine. I eventually got everything sorted though and can now view the documents, but still cant print them which is quite annoying.

Last week I said about 2 sites I had linked to, one sitting at 3rd & 4th and one which was sitting at 11th. Those positions were still steady last night when I started doing this months Angelas backlinks. I went through the first 10 links from the packet and added a link to each of the sites (some sites only allowed 1 link, so I linked to the higher ranking of the 2 sites). I wasnt expecting to see any change in rankings for the first couple of days, however this morning after checking the links my site which was ranking 3rd & 4th is now 1st! The other site hasnt moved yet though.

During the week, I created about 5 more pages from marchs backlink packet with links to 2 more of my sites. These sites had been sitting at 9th and 11th before I created the links, after creating the links to these sites they have moved up to 2nd and 9th respectively within a few days.

So the overview of my Angela’s Backlinks Review, a must for anybody using SEO. The effects seem of building these backlinks seems to be almost instant and just a handful of links can send you fromthe bottom of the first page to the top within days!

The only negative to these links is the time taken to create them, although I am looking into different methods of speeding the creation of them up, and also ways of making sure that all the links are indexed and stay indexed in Google. Once I have done a bit of research I’ll post again so everyone can benefit.

If I get through Angela’s packet quick enough this month I may take a look at Pauls backlink packets as well, which is 50 links, PR4+ for $8 (Angelas backlink packets are 30 links, PR 6+ for $5). On paper it doesnt appear as good value as Angelas packets as they are slightly more per link, and the PR is 4+ rather than 6+, however if they have anywhere near as much power as Angela’s then they are definately worth it, even if just used as a backup list of links.

As I said in my previous post, I have recently signed up for Angelas Backlink Packets which I started working though on Thursday night.

Firstly, as I didnt get the packet until the end of the month, most of the other users have already jumped in and done their links so some of the sites had either closed registration, removed link fields or changed the fields to plain text only. So far I have gone through about 20 of the sites and probably 5 are “dead”. I was expecting this anyway though so its not really a problem.

When you subscribe to the backlink packets, Angela will send you an email with a link to a page containing that months packets. I thought it was a bit odd that a package of 30 links was spread across 7 zip files at about 2MB each, however once you have downloaded the packages it becomes clearer. This isn’t just a list of URL’s, there is a guide for each and every site, showing you where to sign up, where to put your links and what code to use for the links.

The backlink packet for March contained 32 backlinks, or which there were 2 PR9 sites, 1 PR8 site, 9 PR7 sites, 19 PR6 sites and 1 PR5 site. One thing which I already knew, but is worth pointing out with Angela’s links is that these are the Page Ranks (PR) of the homepage of the site, your link will be on a newly created profile page, or an inner page on the site with lower or no Page Rank.

From what I have seen so far, there are 2 different types of links in the packet. The most common one is a profile page on a forum or networking site which contains your links, and the others are sites where you will need to leave a relevant comment on either a blog or forum to squeeze your backlink in.

The content of the sites vary widely, covering an array of niches. In this months packaet there were web development sites, health sites, law sites and many more. Obviously this will vary from month to month, but if you do find a site which is in your niche then it may well be worth a bit more than just a profile link.

As I said at the start, I’ve gone through about 20 of the sites and created the backlinks. I did 5 on Thursday and 15 yesterday. I have put 2 links on each site, pointing to 2 of my sites. Is it too early to expect results? Yes. Have I seen any results? Yes.

One of my sites which had been sitting comfortably at 6th & 7th on the first page has now shot up to 3rd & 4th, with only one site outranking me taking positions 1 & 2. The second site I linked to was more of an experiment. A site I had created a month or so ago and hadnt got around to do any backlinks to. The site had been indexed, but wasnt in the top 200 for my targeted keywords. The site is now ranking top of the 2nd page, at number 11 for the targeted keyword!

I thought I would do a little more digging. From what I can see in Google, only 2 of the links I created have been indexed! Once I have added the rest of the backlinks, I’ll go through and collect all of the backlink URLs (should have kept a note of them from the start!) and either create an RSS feed to submit, submit them to a social bookmarking site, or post them on a blogger/blogspot blog, or possibly a combination of all three!

So, my review so far… This backlink packet costs $5 (£3) per month for a minimum of 30 URLs. From the 30 URL’s probably 20-25 of the links will still be working at the end of the first month and I would imagine this will drop to 10-15 with time. However, provided my results dont drop too much from their current rankings then its definately worth the $5. If adding the extra links, and getting all the pages indexed pushes the rankings up even further then that will be even better.

The main “problem” I am having is the time to create all the links. I have seen a few WSO’s for automation or speeding up of these link packets so I need to do a bit of digging around and see if any of them are any good.