Hi I have a job that requires fixing issues with duplicate meta data, the site is dynamic and therefore the database need to be modified in order to create new meta data for several areas on my site, then the header.php file needs modified accordingly. I now what needs to be done, but don't have the experience with databases to be confident doing it myself. My question is can anyone recommend any sites similar to Elance, Osdesk? I posted on both of those and got a few proposals, a couple reasonably priced but I wasn't confident they had the experience to complete the work (the were talking about creating multiple header.php files, which I know is not the way to do it), the couple that did appear to understand what was needed were in my opinion extremely overpriced, for someone with a good knowledge or MYSQL and PHP, I believe this is only a few hours work. So if anyone has any recommendations I read a post recently that stated you are better off hiring someone on DP than Elance etc etc, why is that? Thanks in advance My site is doing poor in the serps and I believe it is down to the site have duplicated meta data, so I need to get this sorted soon.
The problem is most likely that it's not "a few hours work". There are two kinds of people on sites like Elance - those who will take your money and give you nothing, and those who charge a realistic price and will give you good work. Figure at lest US$35/hour (and up) for any real work. Figure at least a few hours to analyze your needs and design a solution. Then the actual coding starts, and that's also "a few hours". A few hours and a few hours and a few hours - at a reasonable rate - adds up to the "extremely overpriced" offers you saw.