SEO Agencies

[PeterM22]

I'm eager to hear peoples experiences both good and bad with SEO Agencies. I have tried many. I'm particularly interested in hearing experiences of types of link building. In my experience many SEO agencies build low quality links, that at least in my view are unlikely to stand the test of time, with one or two expections.

[Keszi]

Hi Peter,

Regarding agencies that are only working with link building I have terrible experience. I prefer to do link building with in-house people. This was it is a way easier to check what they are doing and how they acquire the links.

The problem with link building agencies is that they usually don't work on the quantity vs. quality . And although quantity is important, but quality is 1000x more important for me.

There are several SEO agencies that will tell you they will get x number of PRX links. The question is: how will those links affect your visitors? I am always trying to gain links that are win-win situations for both me and the "potential link partner", answering questions such as:

1. Does that link provide information, +value for the reader?
2. Is that link complementary to the content where it is placed?
3. Does the visitor, who reaches our site find what he was looking for through that link?
4. Is that link valuable for robots?

I have left robots for the last position since I believe we should add less value to this and give more importance to visitors.

But this is one personal opinion, this is how I try to "make the web a better place".

I hope that helped,

Istvan

[EGOL]

many SEO agencies build low quality links

For most clients they would have to be magicians to get anything better.

[Keszi]

Totally agree. Many clients aspect to gain a lot of links without contributing with content that is really good enough to gain links to.

And if you ask for a better content, then they will just announce that your job is to get links and not to change the content they have (that happened a few times with me, and I really didn't enjoy that).

[PeterM22]

Interesting responses. Thank you. Yes, I can see what you mean. These low quality links do not interest me. I beleive search engines are getting better all the time at discounting them.

I have not really valued toolbar PR as a major factor for valuing a link for a lonng time.

That must be annoying Istvan....No top trusted seed is going to link to junk..or at least highly unlikely

[Keszi]

Annoying it is... But still, all of us can make mistakes, and although the ideal would be to learn from others mistakes, we still take our owns.

I just hope you will find "the seo agency" you need for your campaign.

Still test-test-test and if I forgot something from that list is.... Test them before signing for long term.

Istvan

[PeterM22]

yes..we all make mistakes...I've made many. It's good to learn from them and other peoples.

Thanks..Yes.. I will always test throughly.