Comments on: Search for SEO Experts

By: Nick Krym

Nick Krym — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:37:55 +0000

hi, great point re needle in the freelance haystack; finding someone with combination of communication skills, technical skills, decent iq and work ethics seems at times totally impossible task… especially when i sort the list in the rate order ;) nick

By: Daryl James

Daryl James — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:56:45 +0000

Nick, interesting case. Just a quick thought though…having been in offline outsourcing through the past few decades, while the convenience of the internet has increased efficiency, it has also increased the amount of “noise”. Personally, I think the whole online/offline thing ends up being a wash – it has always been and always will be a challenge to find the productive needle in the freelance haystack in the middle of a an opportunity goldrush (such as in the unregulated case of SEO). ~ Daryl

By: Nick Krym

Nick Krym — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:14:02 +0000

agree… to some degree; i guess while it’s out of scope of this blog the discussion is worth at least a post; I’ll put something together in a couple days; thanks Anna

By: Anna Zelenskaya

Anna Zelenskaya — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:04:28 +0000

Nick, I’m aware of this technique, but I feel like investing the same time/cost into creating more valuable content and creating personal relationships with people who like it and spread this further would work better. But I cannot prove this with any data unfortunately))

By: Nick Krym

Nick Krym — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:58:17 +0000

one more thought. your comment on my post might have been a common SEO activity as well, but it was a good thought, absolutely worth sharing; thanks, nick

By: Nick Krym

Nick Krym — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:55:06 +0000

Anna, all posts on the blog are my own. The articles i was referring to are one of the well known SEO techniques. Here how it works: A SEO vendor would create an article and place it in multiple article directories / press release directories. The article would have 2-3 links to your site/blog. The article directories have a fairly high traffic and will generate some traffic to your site through these links. But more important you get a lot of “one way links” to your site/blog which will increase its rating on google. So when someone is looking for info relevant to your blog it will appear in first pages of search. Try to search for “outsourcing pros and cons”. Chances are you will see one of these “articles” or “press releases”. Try to follow the links within these articles – chances are you will find that they lead to some offshore vendor home page. Getting noticed on google is tough, never-ending uphill battle. Outsourcing these activities makes sense… IF… if you can find a decent provider, and that’s not easy at all. Best regards, nick

By: Anna Zelenskaya

Anna Zelenskaya — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:07:17 +0000

Wow! I didn’t know that you’re outsourcing these kinds of activities, because I’m following your blog and the articles are quite interesting. I suppose that’s a sign for you to continue doing this all by yourself. Anyway I’m surprised that you got such results on elance