I was at SES San Jose last year when I met Josh Breinlinger of ODesk, a company that allows anyone to hire, manage and pay remote contractors as if they were in your office when I decided to expand our reach and register as a link building service provider through Odesk.

Through Odesk, it is easy to outsource all

• Web Development – including web design, web programming & applications, ecommerce, marketing (search engine optimization and search engine marketing).
• Audio / Video & Multimedia – production, engineering & editing, voice talent and animation.
• Software Development – desktop apps, client-server apps, game development and mobile applications.

I had used a similar service years ago back in my affiliate marketing days.  I remember that I was a one man company working from a small home office and trying to make a living by selling other people’s products and services online with only a basic knowledge of ‘old school’ HTML.  In those days, it seemed as if you could get to the top of the search engine results of Google even if you coded the entire website on notepad. Well, those days couldn’t last forever.

Although I had been fairly successful in the online travel markets with basic ‘dumb’ websites that did nothing  more than display data, there came a day when online marketing evolved and static sites written in plain HTML were replaced by powerful, database driven, better looking and more productive websites using true programming languages which allow them to not only display data, but process and manipulate data as well, such as PHP.

It was then that I knew I either had to go back to school and learn a whole new way of doing things or I needed to hire my own team of programmers. Well, I like to learn, but I wasn’t able to go back to school.  Hiring a team of programmers sounded good, but I didn’t have either funding to do so or enough work to justify hiring a full time programmer.

The solution? I ended up finding a site similar to ODesk (Odesk hadn’t been launched yet ), that allowed me to post a job and let programmers from all over the world bid on it.  I was a bit reluctant at first because I didn’t know who I was dealing with, the quality of work that a programmer in the other side of the world would do or if they were going to be able to deliver the finished product on time.  As I went through the candidates, interviews and try outs,  I remember one programmer that I had hired wouldn’t return my emails and turned in an unfinished product another that disappeared for two weeks, only to come back to me and say ‘sorry, I can’t do the job’.  In the end, I was able to finally find a Visual Basic programmer in Singapore that was able to do the job I needed but it took me a lot of time and energy to find, interview and hire him for that task.  Odesk takes the pain of searching for the right service providers away and lets you connect with an entire world of IT and ecommerce professionals without ever having to get up from your desk.

Other services that can be outsourced through Odesk are:

• Networking & Information Systems – network administration, firewalls and security;
• Writing – technical, website content, business plans and Blog articles; Graphic Arts &
• Design – logos, illustration, print design, 3D modeling and CAD.
• Administrative Support – data entry, personal assistant, research, email response handling, accounting and bookkeeping.

After meeting Mr. Brinlinger in San Jose last year, I decided to join Odesk as a link building service provider to be able to offer our link building services through them for anyone needing to outsource the link building component of SEO.  Outsourcing link building through Odesk is really easy to do because they even let you monitor your chosen service provider in real time as they work on your project.  Basically, Odesk’s software captures a screen image of your service provider’s desktop every few minutes for as long as the service provider is logged in and working on your job.  At the end of the week, you can compare the service provider’s work log and running bill to the screen captured images of their desktop to ensure the time you’re paying for was spent working on your project, not surfing YouTube.

After almost three years as a professional link builder and link broker at LinkWorth, I knew that most online marketers find link building a very tedious process and now, the whole process can be outsourced safely and discreetly to a professional link building agency. Not only that, but I’ve often seen that the clients we service who have chosen to let us handle the entire link building process for them get better results in the SERPS than those who choose to do it themselves. A few of the link building services you can outsource to us are:

1. Text link advertising
2. Manual directory submission
3. Article distribution services
4. Sponsored Blog posts
5. Permanent inbound links

Ready to outsource link buidling? Request a free website analysis and proposal by sending us your contact info or call me directly.