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Outsourcing Backlinks

 Author: admin Jun 22

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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