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Luke

Apart from the tools mentioned above, I use copyscape premium to identify duplicate text (in the body of the page), I also find these tools very useful:

Xenu Linksleuth: very good for finding duplicate tags in your page's headers (title, description), and for many other tasks that require crawling your site. And the tool is free!

Screaming Frog: Another web crawler and very good tool for finding duplicate tags. It is a paid tool (about 77 GBP per year) but has a couple of features that Xenu does not have.

Cheers

Jorge

Hi Kerri

Does the URL change with each "reload"? ex:

www.mypage.com/page1

www.mypage.com/page1/index.php?sort=time_remaining&sort_direction

If the pages have different URLs but basically the same content presented in a different way, then you might have a problem.

Can you give us the URLs in question? it might help me/us to better understand the situation.

I agree with Lynn

It will be best if you spend all the energy required for deploying the plan (as stated in the question) into generating content ON YOU WEBSITE that will add value for the user.

This is very odd.

I propose the following: ask your SEO company to put into writing what they told you by phone and to send it to you. I can give you and unbiased opinion if you send me their reply by private message. Please note that while I'm not an authority in SEO and I do not do consulting, at least I think I can help you determine if your SEO company is telling you something that makes sense or not.

Also ask them to give you a detailed quote on this 1250 quid job to "fix" your site's position. I agree with Bex when he writes that the amount is extremely high for such a job.

Cheers

Jorge

Greetings

I agree with you, freelancing sites like odesk or elance can be a bit of a jungle.

Here´s what I've done when I've needed a freelancer from those sites:

• Browse the list of Freelancers, use the site's filters to select freelancers that have high rankings in areas that you need.
• Contact the freelancers directly, do not to post an open ad because you will be flooded by low quality offers.
• Ask your potential freelancers about their experiences in projects such as yours, see if they ask questions about your site and your project. the best freelancers usually ask good questions.
• Finally, I would advise that you start small, give a specific linkbuilding assignment to the 2 or 3 freelancers you like the most, for example: "create 5 or 6 links from a site with x PR or in Y industry" and see what they deliver, this way you can determine what the quality level of the freelancer is before committing to a long term (and potentially expensive) partnership.

Good Luck

Masoko