I am thinking of hiring people to do link exchanges, anybody have any experience with any companies and anything I should look out for. Ideally I would like to do it myself so then I know the quality of the exchange but now its just getting hard to keep up with all the work.
Just make sure you don't hire someone that will place links on his own sites and when you stop paying he will simply remove them.
Well, I have a friend of mine who has a person working 10 hours a day to make reciprocal links. He was using linkmarket and to tell you the truth.....this friend of mine does not have a site with a pr of less than 6. And when the pharmacy frenzy began 3 years ago, he made to top serps with quite competitive keywords. He told me that he was able to do 100-300 links per day.
You could try Link-Vault. In exchange for putting other peoples links on your website, links to your website are put on other people's websites in the same category. This is all done automatically, which makes life so much easier. Supposed to be SEO friendly too. Cryo.
Don't hire someone to do your link exchanges, it's so easy you could do it yourself.. If you REALLY want use the Co-Op services...