Designer Wonders If They Overpaid for a Freelancer's Back Links

A site manager reported in a large online marketing forum that they recently paid an overseas freelance marketer $1,500 for search engine optimization and another $1,200 to webmasters for working back links. They wanted to know if this is something they could do themselves without having to pay. This person noted that the overseas freelancers were less expensive and easier to find than Americans who offer the same services.

The person said it was an outreach project in which the freelancer identified relevant websites, found their monthly traffic levels, reached out to their webmasters in order to find out the cost for a back link and counter-offered their fee, paying $25 to $100 per back link. The freelancer also maintained a spreadsheet with all the data, including status about the back link.

The job of the site owner was to have professionally-written content on each page for keywords and Yoast optimization. They paid the webmaster's fees. This person put a lot of trust in the web designer's recommendations. However, now they are skeptical of the work performed by the outreach consultant.

They are skeptical because the freelancer did not list the traffic for some of the sites. The site owner is left not knowing if the sites were valuable or not. The owner called out the freelancer on the lack of information, then the freelancer started to list the traffic.

This individual also wants to know if they overpaid the freelancer. The person charges $7.50 per hour and is charging for 40 hours per week. The project is starting week five. The site owner knows that some of this is time consuming. This person also noted that they have paid 25 webmasters for back links so far. They wonder if they overpaid the freelancer. They wonder if this work really took that much time.

Because of COVID-19, the person has more free time. They think they could do this themselves. One person replied to this site owner and said to use SPYfu to find links and other opportunities on competing sites. Someone else suggested the cost is related to tools. For more information click here https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/gtjvby/paidanoverseasfreelancer1500andabout_1200/.