Ask HN: Anyone ever use Fiverr for SEO?
Hi, I am considering using some of the fiverr jobs on offer to give my website a bit of a traffic boost. Anyone have any experience doing this? Any particular jobs better than others?
I've never seen a third party linkbuilding service, based on humans, that was worth 1/3 of what they charged for it.
I'm not against semi-automated services that can get you into 200 directories for $5; even the best sites have large numbers of trashy links.
If you want a real traffic boost you need to build top quality links. This is tough.
Let's say you've got 1000 visitors a day. A site like that can make enough money on AdSense that you get a monthly check, enough to pay the server bills, but it won't cover your car payment. You want more.
According to quantcast, that puts you at roughly the top 100,000 of all web sites. If we guess there are 20 million web sites, that puts you in an elite club of the top 0.5%
Let's imagine that Google is still using PageRank. If you look at the theory behind it, PageRank simulates a web surfer making a random walk. So the PageRank of a site ought to be proportional to the traffic it gets.
If you're at the 1-in-100,000 level, you get very little PageRank from sites that are at the 1-in-1,000,000 level. To really move up, you need to get links from sites that are bigger than you -- but these are just 0.5% of the sites! It doesnt hurt to get links from small-fry sites, but the bulk of your effort needs to go to recruiting powerful allies.
For every site I've successfully SEOed, I've
(1) written at least one really good sales letter to persuade people to make links to this site
(2) worked harder at promoting the site than I worked at making it (and I'm a VERY technical guy)
(3) had keywords in the domain name
At this point I wouldn't even start a project without (3). Some sites suck so much that you just can't do (1). Most people won't work hard enough to do (2) and that's why it's possible to win.
I thought google had down graded the importance of keywords in the domain name? This was meant to combat people registering exact match domains to rank for specific terms.
Bing and Google will nuke a content-free site with good keywords, but if you make a good site with clear quality indicators the keywords definitely give you a tail wind.
700+ junk comments every DAY and no discernable difference in search engine results. Lingering somewhere on page 3. Plenty of traffic, several thousand per day, none of it genuine users though.
I built another site that I've carefully optimised myself, I'm constantly in the top 5 results for my phrase on Google, 300+ uniques per day which has lead to a genuine community and just 1 spam comment in 6 months which was actually an advert for a link building service!
Building good links yourself can take time but it's really worth it. Aim for 5 a day for a few weeks.
You care the most about the success of your site. No SEO service will take the time & trouble to do it properly.
If you'd like help specific to your website, my email is in my profile.
You need targeted traffic which converst (buys your product, clicks the ads, whatever your conversion is) and that's something these guys can never give you.
If you want to spend money on traffic, you're better off learning how to do PPC advertising. At least that way you get traffic from people who have some interest in your site. You can easily find a voucher from Google for 50$ free PPC advertising to get you started.
Give them a try.
I realize a lot of these are just going to automatically build links on low PR sites. However, I was wondering if there are any legit SEO services on fiverr? Has anyone ever seen a positive result from any of the link building services on offer on fiverr?
My recommendation would be to build your own 2.0 sites like squidoo / hubpages link back to your main site and then blast those squidoo / hubpages with fiverr.