Link building a worth while investment?

If you were to outsource link building tasks to someone here on the forums, would it be worth while? Let's say you setup an affiliate store marketing some products on your page. You've done the on-page SEO, how much money would you typically have to drain into hiring a link builder before you start to see more return on your money than what you're investing? Of course, targeting long tail, easier to rank for keywords. Nothing major.

 

link building is worthwhile if the amount you spend is countereed by the money you earn. if it doesnt, you're making a loss thus NOT a worthwhile investment.

also i would be very dubious before hiring anybody on this forum. there are so many n00bs and con-men here. i suggest you learn how to backlink yourself and do your own stuff

 

There is no SEO without links. No links - no SEO. Link building is very important but there are so few professional SEO-specialts out there. You'll pay money they will show you new links, but obviously they won't work at all. The problem is to find a real pro.

 

i would say the solution is to find a real pro

 

You're better off doing it yourself for free (providing you have some time on your hands). Submit articles to article directories, submit your site to directories, post on forums, comment on blogs, write guest posts on other blogs, post links to your web pages on social bookmarking sites, etc.

 

Teach yourself to fish and feed yourself for a lifetime. The only way I'd recommend outsourcing is if you can train the person doing the work. In this way you know what should be done, you understand what is being done, and you know it's being done your way.

 

i think if you get good link builder where you can get work done at the quality price it will be ok.If you can get the knowledge of SEO and make some contribution of SEO marketing then it will be great for you and for your site.

 

Depending on the difficulty of keyterm you might find smaller sites only need a minor link building budget (if any) where as if you're going for generics you need to create a long-term plan and strategy. I personally outsource my linking for about $15 a site/month although sometimes it's a one off. Good links don't have to be expensive

 

Linkbuilding it the most important thing to a good website. I spent like 70% of my time with it.

 

It could definitely be worth your while... But, it could also be the worst thing you ever did.

There's lots of things to take into consideration when you're looking to outsource your link building efforts, whether it be here on DP, or elsewhere.