Hi guys/gals. I am finding it tricky to find a suitable partner to assist us with off-page optimisation for our soon to be launched mini-site development service. I am looking for someone to spend 1 hour on each site that we develop to put in place a basic off-page SEO campaign that will mostly be made up of link building activities. If there's anyone that can suggest anybody suitable or if they'd like to put themselves forward then please PM me. I have 4 sites that need attention first-off and then if we are satisfied with the work that's done that person/company will then become our partner and handle all off-page SEO work for every future site we develop. I have tried Elance but without much success. Most just respond with a blanket email and standard proposal for a fully-blown SEO campaign, which isn't what we want. One concern I have is that perhaps I'm being a little unrealistic about anyone being able to do anything meaninful in 1 hour. If that's the case then what are your thoughts on how long a basic off-page SEO campaign should take. Thanks for any assistance you can offer! tuktuk
You can hardly do a good job of on-page SEO for a single page in 1 hr. I think you're being unrealistic to think that much of anything can be done in 1 hr for off-site which is generally a lot more challenging than on-page SEO. If you came to me and said, "I've got a new client. It's an auto detailing web site in Dallas, TX. They need 1hr of off-site SEO." I'd honestly probably laugh. It's not going to be worth any SEO's time. 1hr of any kind of SEO is worthless IMO. I would have to spend more than 1 hr trying to simply identify a handful of auto related blogs that allow FOLLOWed comments. It would take more than 1 hr to write a single article worth submitting to an article submission site. It would take me 10 posts and usually a 7 day wait in order to be able to add a forum signature to my new account on an auto related forum. It would take more than an hour to identify a handful of decent auto related directories worth submitting to... Link development, if done correctly (or even half a$$), is the toughest part of SEO and the most time consuming. And it's not something you do once for an hour and forget. It something you spend time doing frequently over long periods of time. A lot of how much you do it depends on what your client's expectations are: what they want to rank for... how fast they want to rank... how high they want to rank... how competitive their niche is... etc. I would suggest you offer off-site packages to them with something like 5 or 10 hrs/month of link building as the absolute minimum with some minimum time period like 6 months if they expect to see any results what-so-ever.
These are mini sites, i believe, like a having 10 personal blogs or so. You should be able to set one up pretty decent in an hour. Then automate its posting.