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Thanks Lucas, good info. Yes, that is my experience as well. Do you remember the firm?

I am seeing several Pay-Per-Rank (performance based) SEO firms popping up lately. The model is interesting. They only take on the work that they know they can achieve good results. Most seem advertise white hat SEO.

Overall thougts?

Anyone have any experience with these firms? Any recommendations?

Is the primary result of a site that rankings fall or are you guys also seeing a drop in the number of indexed pages? or both?

Also, how quickly do you all see sites recovering from this?

Thanks gents, good stuff.

Seems that SEOMoz reports are considering my paginated pages as duplicate Meta Tags. For example, I have a product catalog with 5 paginated pages. Obviously the content on each page is unique and the URL ends in =4, =5 for the page number, but the Title and Description are the same for all the pages.

Any suggestions on how to handle this? The pages other than page 1 are not indexed, so it should not be a big deal. But wondering if I should programatically ad the page number to the additional pages to show a difference?

Thanks, seems a pretty clear message. Good advice.

Thanks for the advice SallyO.

I am doing a lot of the niche partnership link building but I am looking for a company to compliment some of my work in other related areas. Need some advice from the group.

A couple of questions:

1. I'm looking for a company to acquire around 20-30 links per month. Not talking about easy directories or social links, but good (PR 3+) sites that are somewhat related to my business.

Is that a reasonable request?

2. What should I expect to pay for this each month?

3. Any good suggestions on companies in the US. I am a small startup with a fairly limited budget, at least for now?

Thanks everyone!

Thanks so much for your input Kristi and Mike. I've had the similar experience with offshore link building.

But what about some of the reputable SEO firms and their link building product. I know there are lots within this forumn. I would like to hire someone to help me compliment what I can't do with my team, but I need some transparency in the practice. Looking to partner with someone that can compliment what I am already doing.

Suggestions?

I have been limping along doing link building myself for several months now. Creating relationships, asking for links, writing some articles and press. So far, decent results, but I need to take it to another level.

I used SubmitEdge's 400 manual directory submission product, but still not seeing many links coming from it.

So, I would like to hire an onshore SEO to help me with link building. After getting several quotes from reputable companies, I found the process very frustrating.

I know this business is not about guarentees, but they all want $600-$1000 per month for a fairly open ended service. All they tell me is that they will submit to directories, social media sites, shopping sites, and some niche sites. No guarentees of how many (or what quality) of links I'll get, or even how much time they even plan to spend.

Any suggestions on what I should expect? and any suggestion companies?

I have been limping along doing link building myself for several months now. Creating relationships, asking for links, writing some articles and press. So far, decent results, but I need to take it to another level.

I used SubmitEdge's 400 manual directory submission product, but still not seeing many links coming from it.

So, I would like to hire an onshore SEO to help me with link building. After getting several quotes from reputable companies, I found the process very frustrating.

I know this business is not about guarentees, but they all want $600-$1000 per month for a fairly open ended service. All they tell me is that they will submit to directories, social media sites, shopping sites, and some niche sites. No guarentees of how many (or what quality) of links I'll get, or even how much time they even plan to spend.

Any suggestions on what I should expect? and any suggestion companies?