How much seo work one can do himself vs paid seo services ?

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August 13, 2013, 5:39 pm

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How much seo work one can do himself vs paid seo services ?

Hi,

When it comes to seo, you can either do it yourself or hire someone like on the seo link building marketplace.

Obviously, the higher your budget, be it you take the right services and have everything else covered (right kw selection, good on site etc), the better your results.

I'm on a budget right now and I can invest more time than money. And I do have plenty of time.

So I'm wondering to what extent one can do seo on a budget, doing it himself.

Many of the seo services provide stuff I feel can be done without outsourcing :

wiki blasts
blog comments
web 2.0 submissions
tumblr, pligg etc
guest posts

I'm not saying it's not a pain though.

Of course, some other tactics require investment :

Blog networks, SAPE etc
social signals (unless you got outstanding content andan existing audience, in case you don't need seo as much)
and everything else I don't have in mind right now that needs investment (personal high PR blog network for example)

So here's my point, or my questions actually :

1 - do you guys have experience doing your seo work yourself ?
2 - did you get good results ?
3 - do you recommend any strategy in particular ?
4 - What tools would you recommend ?

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I usually do 90% of my seo on my own. When i get lazy i buy some but that doesnt happen so often so i usually do all myself.
2) Yes i did PR2 site

How much seo work one can do himself vs paid seo services ?

3) Work hard and try to keep a high quality profile, meaning hq posts,articles or anything you use to promote
4) I didnt use any tool so i cant recommend any sorry

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