I posted the other day that I had found the joys of outsourcing backlinks. This post is a review of the oDesk experience.
oDesk is easy to sign up to, nothing you wouldnt expect to answer for this type of service. You do need to give them your card details when signing up. Once signed up they charge your card with two difference transactions, both of which add up to $10. It took a few days before I could check the amounts to get my account verified, but you can start outsourcing backlinks or any other work as soon as you create your account.
Once your account is created you can login and post a job. Posting a job is kind of like posting an auction on eBay. You select the category you want the job to go into, in the case of outsourcing backlinks, I selected SEO. You then complete the job title and description. I tried to make the description as easy to understand as possible, but make sure that everything was covered – remember alot of these workers dont speak English very well. You are then able to select the qualifications that the applicant must have in order to apply – I left empty. The final part posting the job is the pay! You can select to pay per hour and tell them how many hours per week you need them for, and how many weeks you will need them for, or alternatively, as I did in this case, a fixed fee for a set amount of work.
Now my job for outsourcing backlinks has been posted and is available for all to apply to. You can either wait for users to apply for the jobs, or select users that you think may be interested in outsourcing backlinks and invite them to apply for the job.
Once you have an applicant/bid you are happy with you simply click a button to hire them and they are added to your “team”. From here you can send them messages with attachments, monitor their work, pay them and plenty more I havent explored yet.
The whole process is about as simple as it could be, and oDesk dont charge you anything. oDesk take their cut from the workers pay (ie if you pay them $10, oDesk take $1 and the worker gets $9).
As for the quality of work…
You would have thought that outsourcing backlinks would have been a simple task, with the right software in place it doesn’t take long and its not difficult to understand – they even have a PDF telling them exactely what to do!!
The guy who applied for the first 60 profiles I tried outsourcing made no effort to contact me, didnt really understand what I wanted him to do and when I eventually managed to explain to him he just disappeared and stopped answering my messages. Since then I have cancelled the assignment and created a new job for outsourcing 120 profiles!
I didnt bother inviting anybody I thought might be interested in outsourcing the backlinks this time and just left it for the workers to apply. Within 2 hours I had 5 people apply, one of which bid $10. Couple of clicks and he was hired! I was just in the process of writing a message to him to say what I needed doing, but before I could finish the message I had an email from his asking for the URL’s and Anchor texts for the links so he could get started.
A couple of hours later I received a report with the first 30 profiles in, I checked a couple and they all looked ok. Sent him the next batch, again a couple of hours later and I had another report! I have since gave him the final 60 profiles and I am waiting for him to complete these.
This is guy is better and faster than I expected and I will be sure to use him the next time I am outsourcing backlinks. He lists a variety of other types of links he can build so I may try some of them out.
So to sum it up, I got 120 backlinks built to the standard I would have built them myself, for £6.80! 120 profiles (240 backlinks, less than 3p per link!) would have taken me about 10 hours (5 minutes per profile), all thanks to my new best friends over at oDesk. I was paying $5 per month for Angela’s backlinks and doing all the work myself, I can now pay $5 per month and get 60 profiles created for me, and still get the packet (all the links are provided in the report!). So, will I continue outsourcing backlinks through oDesk, I think the answer is a definate yes!
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Great stuff, Shane, informative as always. I’ll eagerly be waiting for the next part of this post which tells us how well the links worked for you…a before and after ranking report would be nice
Well you already know my fors/againsts for Angelas links and that I think they work well, so fingers crossed they should work.
One of the sites that had been sitting around the bottom of the third page has jumped up to middle of the second (30 backlinks), my A4u competition entry has moved from 150ish to around 80ish, but Im disappointed with the rankings for this and may remove some of the experimental sections and tweak a few other bits. I’ll post a proper update in a week or so though.
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Did you give the employee the list of sites and instructions or did they find the backlinks themselves?
Where did you find the list of forums/social sites?
I justed asked for Paul or Angelas backlinks which they already had, but you can give them your own links if you want.
I’ve just outsourced another 120 profiles, with 3 links in each, for $8.89 – just over 5p per profile (3 links)! Im going to have a look at outsourcing backlinks of different types, such as directory submissions shortly.
Backlinks are very important in search engine optimization and outsourcing backlinks is a very easy way of getting them. You can use directory submission for generating backlinks as well, either free or paid directories.
Thanks! This post motivated me to signup(via your link) and I’m now an oDesk addict.
Planning to outsource EVERYTHING on there. Copywriting, regular blog posting, profile links, blog commenting, article uploading, SENuke, bookmarking, article spinning..! Anything I can think of.
Thanks again,
Zac
Just come across your post from someone elses blog and wondered if you had an update to how well these where going?
Also be interested to see your job description as I think it would be useful for other people thinking of outsourcing links too!
Covered in the post here – how to outsource backlinks.
Shane! Just stumbled over your blog. Really appreciate the info. I have been thinking a lot about outsourcing lately, but I’m a bit apprehensive. But as you too are positive about Odesk I will give it a go. Shame we can’t use Mturk as european residents though.
Love the design btw.
Cheers,
Andi