Using foreign companies for link building
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Im constanly getting approched to use cheaper link builders abroad does anyone have experience in this and is their anything I need to look out for I wouldnt normaly ask but ive got loads of link building to do and I dont have the time
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tru we never here about good ones
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very true
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Agreed!!!
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I would be more tempted by Andrew's suggestion of hiring someone, instucting them and then putting them to work rather than completely handing over control to a 3rd party - especially one based on another continent, where as many of us know, there are many dodgy link buidling and SEO outfits (there are many probably good ones too but we don't here about those).
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No, there's no harm in hiring a third party to do link building - however, I tend to shy away from third party link builders because I can't confirm their tactics. I can only ask them questions to try to understand how they're adding links.
What I generally do when I'm focusing on link building is hire an intern for minimum wage, instruct them what to do, and monitor the results. That way, I know exactly how links are being built, and I can maintain the quality assurance.
It might not make sense in all situations, but rankings are too important to me to neglect quality for cost.
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yeh cheers is a hard one working on the web you dont see who your working with.
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There is nothing wrong with using a third party service for link building (it's the same thing as having an internal SEO do it for you, regardless of what people say). However, you need to make sure they're building WHITE HAT links. There IS a difference between a white hat authoritative link that is RELEVANT and links that are spammy. Get samples of their work and test them out on a dummy site first and see if it's XRUMER type linking or real manual links. That's my thoughts on it.
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