Anyone have experience of using teams from India for SEO. This was something I was looking into. However I heard India are getting a bad name for seo with there low costs and bad performance being the main problems. No offence to anyone from India, for all I know its completely false, I just wanted some advice from anyone who can help. Have you used a team from India, were they good or bad? Who would you reccomend as being proffesional? I dont have time to learn seo myself and I am willing to pay for this service. I just dont want to throw money away. I also dont want to trust a company whom would be using bad techniques and getting my site banned etc
There is bad apple in every country. All you have to do is pick the right one. dekker made a very nice post about choosing programmer..but it could be use as a guide for other service too http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=125002
you have to go on a case by case basis to determine who is good. If your going to hire somebody, hire somebody with a proven track record, who can show you examples of what they have done. you cant generalize India as being good or bad at SEO just like i cant generalize chinese people of designing a poor site, some design nice ones and even give you what you pay for.
Exactly, i've worked with people in U.S. with horrible Customer Service and communication rate and have worked with great people from anywhere in the world you can't really base it on stereotypes, if the person can show you things he's done and prove he's done them that will be your verification. To answer your original question, i've worked with people from India who work for very cheap yet still do a great job.
My experience with programmers from a different country: If you can understand them - EXCELLENT! Their code was solid but I couldn't get good customer support to save my life.
Find your coder on one of those search coder sites where escrow is used, thats what i am using at the moment to get a project developed for a big sum, i would tell you the name but im not here to advertise a company like that. If you want to know pm me.
" India has now got some good SEO's and SEM's considering the kind of competitive the indian internet mkt i getting. Research more and test few before finalising one.
In short what ahkip said is right Depends on the SEO Team you are working with. We cannot blame any one or any country in general, better be specific with the people you worked.
You can't generalize any country or services offered by people of a country as good or bad based on a few good or bad service providers. The key is to research and find a company which understands your needs well and provides you the with desired results.
for one thing, hire college interns. college students are always looking for something to put on their resumes (I worked at xyz company during the summer of 2006, etc). Plus you can get high quality work(the grunt work) from them and they'd be willing to work for minimum wage to $10/hour. Plus their reliability and english will be good.
I doubt this approach can work for SEO of a website - which is a specialized and skilled work. I would not want to comment on the original post - just coz of the reason - i own a SEO company in India !! I suggest you to choose someone with reputation to show - check a few references - if they have some good references to show for their work you can rely on them to do a good job for you.
You just have to choose the right person, do some background checks and you certainaly would find a lot of good SEOs from India. We rank at #6 for term 'seo' on Googles India website. We rank #3 for term 'seo expert' on Googles main website, google.com. Both of them are pretty nice keywords.
I refuse to coment .... becouse of personal interests .... and becouse i'm a freelancer and day by day besides clients lack of knowledge i have to fight olso with indians ridiculous low rates But it can be generalized as sad before
I think the good SEO's in India will be a lot cheaper than those in the UK/US because their pricing is a lot more competitive.
bacardirum, I think that you need to read some basic info about SEO at least (some FAQ's and similar information). You should do this because that will be safe way to know that company you will be hired do their job right using clean methods like you wish. And it will not depends where they are located (in India or in Antarctica). I also can't imagine good Indian company working for $10 per hour. Reliable companies in India work in Range of $20-$40 per hour and sometimes more than that. That should be individual claiming himself as a company or just "company" that thinks they will outbeat everyone by lowering prices to almost nothing. In long term that only sucks. They will be overloaded with work who they can't handle and done and their customers sue and badmouth them. So while you will be choosing them always bring some common sense in their statements and if something not like it should be - beware! You stated that you haven't time to learn SEO because of other duties so you simply MUST (sorry, but this word will be best here) do that in order to save your valuable time. P.S. I am not from India, just want to help
I am not a SEO and so I have no interest either to support Indian SEOs or to bash them. However, being a webmaster and visiting forums for webmasters ad SEO blogs, I have noticed is that a lot of Indians are jumping on the bandwagon of SEO because they see it as an easy, high paying job. I would guess that most of them don't have the slightest clue what SEO is, they just read an on page optimisation guide, a link building guide and then graduated from the Internet University of SEO. Of course there are legitimate and Good Indian SEO companies, but I believe this wave of people calling their selves SEOs (because let's face it anyone can call himself anything he likes on the Internet) are giving the Indian SEOs the bad name you are talking about. Would I trust an Indian SEO? Not more and not less than I would trust a SEO from the US, as a matter of fact the SEOs that I would trust are not more than 10 and all of them are too expensive for my budget .
India have great skills including seo. The thing is few bad fish spoils the whole pond. You need to pickup right one. India is best place to do business with because of cheap rates and great work.