Looking for a link building specialist in London? A few things to think about

Handling a balanced link building campaign can potentially be a lot of fun. It can also be very frustrating.

In this post I will try to give you inspiration with new and fresh approaches to have fun while working on it.

Getting the link building campaign right is not always easy when you need to come up with ideas to market your company. When done correctly, a good link building campaign captures the audience’s attention. You need to keep the readers interested in the story, and they will continue to read if done right.

Use of your own staff in London to manage projects outsourced to the link building specialist

Often, people in the London-office can have broader knowledge of what is going on locally than what you can expect from a link building specialist far away or what the people at the headquarters of your firm are aware of. However, this does not necessarily mean that it is good use of resources to engage internal human resources locally in relation to the link building specialist. Below I will highlight some of the things that need to be considered.

Is there any difference when using a link building specialist in London compared to having the staff working on this inhouse?

Should you hire experts from a link building specialist in London or is it better to use staff in the firm to take care of link building at the house?The questions you need to ask yourself has a number of aspects that you should think about. In this article I will discuss some of the things you should be aware of before deciding whether a link building specialist is needed or whether it is better using internal staff in the company at the local branch office in London.

The project you are thinking of setting out to a link building specialist can be time consuming and difficult to learn, but it can be well worth the time and resources

Putting the work out to a link building specialist can certainly pay off, but it is still important that there are available resources that can handle this in a proper way on the part of the organization. If you already have limited resources, it is unlikely that this type of task will receive sufficient focus and attention from in-house staff without adequate resources to handling the project. The link building specialist knows that these things require a lot of attention and are knowledge-intensive, so they have dedicated the resources needed to handle the project in a professional way. I have always been of the opinion that it is you who know your product and your market best, so if you have the resources needed, it is definitely the best thing to do it yourself. This is something that must be carefully considered before making a decision on how to proceed with link building.

Good link building tools

There are some things you need to be aware of when using a link building specialist – whether this is handled by your department in London, or centrally at the headquarter. Below is a handy checklist of things you need to think about, as well as the best tools you can use for either free or commercial tools where free alternatives are not available or significantly inferior to the commercial ones.

Majestic.com

Majestic SEO is the world’s largest link index. Use this tool to find out everything of interest about links to your own pages and what your competitors locally in London are doing, or what national and international competitors are up to. Links to your website and subpages are crucial to your search engine rankings, so this is important to keep tabs on.

Ranks.nl

Ranks.nl has a number of professional SEO tools that I can really recommend. One of the tools I use most is Page Analyzer. With this tool, you can check keyword density on each subpage of your domain to optimize for keywords or phrases. If the link building specialist you are planning to use is at all professional, they probably use the tools available from ranks.nl – or similar tools extensively.

Google Alerts

To be on top of things, it is important to know what happens as early as possible. Google Alerts sends you an email every time someone mentions the words and phrases you specify. This can be anything from trademarks that are important to you, people of interest or general words and phrases that are important to your business. You can have alerts for all employees, freelancers you use, your trademarks including websites you run and words and phrases you focus on. All of this gives you a good overview of what is being talked about that matters internally. Google’s notification is free to use and helps you to be early in terms of being on top of what your competitors in London are doing, potential public relations disasters in the form of negative reviews and much else useful.

Need help deciding whether to use a link building specialist or manage the project yourself?

Do you need to discuss what a link building specialist should do? Do you need someone to throw ball with? Feel free to contact me. Contact information can be found in the menu. We never charge before agreed from both sides.

Questions or comments?

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