Ask HN: has anyone used a crowdsourced SEO service?

8 pointsandrewstuart2 comments

Has anyone used crowdsourced SEO?

What is the leading service in this space?

Anyone care to share their experiences?

I think the reason it (might) not work would be: 99designs - the designers are protected from someone else using the design they produce as just a few small examples are shown on the site. Someone could pinch them, but they aren't getting the full whack.

With SEO advice a competitor could just take everything shown and apply it. Or if they just give you a small amount how do you ensure you get what you want/paid for? How does the SEO 'provider' protect themselves against someone just not being happy with the rest of the (good) advice.

But I could be wrong ;)

SEO for big money terms is difficult, time consuming, and expensive.

I would only use something like this for trivially competitive terms.

Blueglass' product is worth looking into (I believe it's called SecondStep) as is Optify.

I don't really know what you mean by crowdsourced SEO - if you're crowdsourcing your onsite stuff, you're probably making a bad decision.

If you're crowdsourcing your link building, you're paying someone else to spam for you.

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