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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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A4U Gold Jewellery Competition – More Products & Backlinks

 Author: admin Jun 19

As promised, heres the latest  update on the A4U Competition. Since the last post the sites have gone live, mine has been indexed and even had a couple of users find it using long tail keywords. I’ve had some nice comments from people regarding my site, especially from Mansoor, both on A4U and over on his blog.

I have been accepted for 2 more merchants, which has pushed the number of gold lockets up from 30 to just under 100. I have decided that rather than adding them all in one go, I am going to add a few a day over the next 20 days or so. It takes me about 10 minutes to add 3 new products, including editing the image to fit my site design. So I am expecting to spend about 3.5 hours on adding products which I will add to the timesheet now rather than 10 minutes each day.

I have also spent an hour this morning doing a little bit of onsite SEO on the homepage, adding the content I wrote a while ago, spinning lots of unique versions and submitting to 10 different article sites (will do some more at a later stage). I have set my outsource worker onto building 60 links for the site as well, which isnt taking up any of my time, but cost £3.50 so I will record this below as well.

I think I will end up going over my 10 hour ‘limit’ as I had only expected around 50 products, obviously 100 products has added another 3 hours of work – although it also gave me some inspiration for a new script to write which would mean I could have added all 100 products in a few minutes :)

A4U Gold Jewellery Competition Total Time Spent: 8.5 Hours

A4U Gold Jewellery Competition Earnings: -£3.50

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Outsourcing…Why The Hell Didnt I Do It Sooner!

 Author: admin Jun 18

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!

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