“But isn’t SEO all about top rankings? If firm X can provide top rankings for less, shouldn’t I go with them?” This is standard fare from bargain shoppers, but the basic questions to ask yourself is this: do you want top rankings or do you want more business? Most SEO companies are in the business of achieving top rankings and everything else is not their problem. Even still, it is rare to find inexpensive outsource SEO services that can achieve top rankings for competitive, high ROI terms, maintain those top rankings through constant algorithm changes, and continue to beat out your competition which are optimizing for the same keyword phrases.

If you’re paying someone only a few hundred or even just a few thousand dollars each year to work on your site, how many man-hours do you really think they are giving you each month? When your site gets dropped or rankings mysteriously crash, how much time do they spend trying to find potential issues and problems? Even the best sites-and those optimized by the best SEOs in the world-can suddenly disappear from the search engines. Sometimes it’s a temporary issue, sometimes it’s because of something the client did, and sometimes it’s due to other external factors. Whatever the reason, the SEO needs to thoroughly investigate so the issue can be corrected.

When I talk about outsourcing, I’m not just referring to outsourcing elements of the SEO process to India to capitalise on cheap labour, but examples such as to an outsourced link-building contract given to an ex-employee turned freelancer, or a web development agency you met at a networking event.

Outsourcing takes a wide variety of forms, but the measure of ‘effectiveness’ is regarded by the value it adds to the client. So can SEO effectively be outsourced by a SEO?

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