Monthly SEO contract or dedicated employee?

[geekwik]

Have one more question. There are people offering monthly SEO contracts like this

http://www.link-building-strategies.com/monthly-link-building.html

My question is that is it worth it for $199 a month? Though its reviews are good on freelancing sites but  I can also hire a full time employee for that cost. Is there anything a dedicated employee cannot do that these guys are offering? Only drawback I see is I dont know the links where these guys are submitting but I am ready to spend much more time (my employees time) to get the things done. Please suggest.

Your valued opinions welcome

Following is the detailed offering

1. 300 links submissions = 180 Guaranteed One Way Theme Links - The links are built by manually publishing 3 Original Articles on 75 different article sites, each published article will have 2 back links to your site. 70% of our Article Sites have PR 2 to 6; all with different C classes IPs.
2. 60 links submissions = 30 Guaranteed One Way Theme Links – The links are built by manually publishing 1 Review for your site fromon** 30 Social Bookmarking sites, 90% of the sites have PR 2 to 8, all with different C classes IPs.
3. 160 links submissions = 100 Guaranteed One Way Theme Links – The links are built by manually publishing ** 2 Original Press on 50 Press Release sites, each published article will have 2 back links to your site.  All our Press Release Sites have PR 2 to 7; all with different C classes IPs.
4. 80 links submissions = 40 Guaranteed One Way blog links  – These links are built by publishing** 1 article **(300 words each) with 2 back links to your site on 20 different free blog sites. These free blog sites are our sites (new sites with PR 0) which we are promoting to get the highest PR for them and your blog back links too.

- All the submissions are 100% handmade, NO automated software is involved. You can check this by looking at our over 1000 GOOD SEO REVIEWS made during the past 5 years on 4 freelancing sites.

• The links will not appear all at once to your site. The indexing process of all the links will take between 1-3 months. The links will appear gradually to your site and everything will look naturally for all the search engines

[BeardoCo]

I would personally would hire a full time SEO consultant.  I wouldn't want that company doing SEO for me and definitely don't like what they are offering.  They say there method is Google Penguin accepted, but its super spammy.  Eventually it will be caught by Google and you will be left in a worse place.

I guess the main thing to think about is....

if they are not automating this process how in the world is it worth for them to supply all those links, articles etc for that price point each month?  If its not automated then its definitely contracted out overseas.

[geekwik]

Thanks BeardoCo,,

Even I thought so. However if I hire an employee who has no background of SEO but can do things as instructed (includes commenting etc). Is there a list of things the employee can do which will lead to quality backlinking and boost in search rankings. Just some simple but executable steps. TIA

[BeardoCo]

Well in today realm of SEO - you are really hiring a strategist that obtains high quality backlinks instead of low quality links in mass.  You can definitely hire a company that is reputable to work on your website and provide some great value.  I don't think it would be wise to hand it off to someone who has no SEO experience and is just doing a checklist everyday.  Just my thoughts though.

[geekwik]

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