I decided yesterday that my time was much better spent doing pretty much anything else rather than link building. I had decided I would try and get the other half doing link building for me, but she got bored after the first 2 or 3 links and gave up. I remembered a while ago someone commenting on one of my Angelas backlinks posts that they outsourced 120 of Pauls links for $5.60 ($0.56 per hour).

After doing a bit of digging it looked like the poster was infact trying to promote an eBook where they would explain this to you. Always one for trying to get something for free, I emailed them anyway and asked as they had commented on my website and got a backlink from it, could they please tell me where they outsource to. Within minutes I had a reply saying they use oDesk.

Now I had heard of oDesk before, just never used it. So I signed up, posted a job for someone to create 60 of Angelas Backlinks for me and left it over night. This morning I have about 10 bids on the job for around $5 (£3.50). One of the guys has clocked up around 1500 hours of work on oDesk and has decent feedback from similar jobs so I have hired him to do this for me. To start off with it will be 60 links per week, but if this guy works as well as Im hoping I’ll start putting more work his way.

So 60 backlinks would have taken me around 4 or 5 hours to do myself, and I would have been extremely bored by the end of it. So in effect I am paying someone 70p per hour to do this for me and freeing myself up for 5 hours a week to do other things, which is a hell of a lot of time when you already work fulltime and then do AM in evenings and weekends!

I’ll post an update once the first week has been completed!