Outsourced link building?

[AlecPR]

My company is looking at outsourcing part of our SEO - some supplementary link building to boost some deep links. What does the SEOmoz community think of outsourcing link building? Every company that I've researched seems to employ very low quality techniques, which ends up with a bunch of spammy/sidebar/links page/comment links.

Are there companies that specialise in high quality link building? We would definitely be looking for people that would do things like write engaging guest posts, etc, rather than spamming our brand across the internet. Are there any lessons that you've learned that you can share with me?

[Keszi]

Hi Alec,

You will possible find SEO agencies which will create quality backlinks, I have no doubt regarding this. But will you find company which will do that cheap?  - I do not think so.

Still if interested I could point out a few people, who can deliver the quality job. Just hit me up with a Private message.

I hope you will find some great SEO agencies here (or maybe you could post it on the LinkedIn group also).

Gr.,

Istvan

[Vahe.Arabian]

There are only  quite a few high quality SEO teams who specialise  in linkbuilding and these guys definently charge a premium.

Alec the best advice I can give you is to actually develop a specialist inhouse or hire an external freelancer that will take on a bulk of the work. Specifically having a specialist inhouse brings many benefits which include:

• Over the long term you are reducing costs to the business.
• They will actually care more about the work they are doing and find relevant links. Plus they have more understanding of the client.
• They can work along with other SEO's in the team - economies of scale.
• They will work to build a quality database source of referring domains (applicable to each industry), which can be used again and again. You are essentially building this database as a USP for your clients. This will give you leverage to charge more for your work.

To do all this you will need to automate alot of the research  related processes when finding links. Scaling linkbuilding inhouse or externally also requires a great project management software where you can effectively track each task.

Hope this helps,

Vahe

[Vahe.Arabian]

Here are a few examples of linkbuilding companies - http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended#link-building