Comments on: Is Link Building an Indian Thing?

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:24:50 +0000

Well I guess the truth is cruel for Indians out there especially those that are hard to swallow the truth.Indians live mainly in poverty and this makes them willing to do cheap work and this makes me sad.

By: Marcel Feenstra

Marcel Feenstra — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:47:55 +0000

Like Rebecca says, link builders from India typically work for wages that are *much* lower than those charged by their colleagues in Western Europe and the U.S., so there is *very* little incentive for them to do serious research and provide top quality work…

In addition, they may well use automated tools that keep pushing (spammy) links with identical descriptions to the same set of spammy directories (etc.) over and again, thereby further reducing the remaining value (if any) of those directories.

IMO, things *really* tend to go amiss when they do link building for sites in (non-Indian) languages other than English.

Still, it is hard to explain to potential customers that they should expect to pay up to several hundred euro for a single link, when our Indian friends offer “packages” of a few hundred links for a dozen bucks… :-O

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:41:19 +0000

I do some work for overseas clients via oDesk (http://www.odesk.com), which is an international marketplace of information workers. There the large communities of linkbuilders seem to be in India and the Phillipines. There’s lots of really startlingly bad quality work going on, it’s true, but I think there’s an explanation for that. Namely, these are folks working for extremely low wages, and they are being hired by shady companies who want to pay as little as possible. Within these communities, then, shady practices are the norm, and people learn from one another. Once they learn better strategies, they can raise their prices and it no longer matters what country they’re in.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:47:19 +0000

They sure do alot of searching about link building, On my companies website I noticed that when you view visitors by country the link building page has huge deference then all other page on the site. Google says India This country/territory sent 1,755 visits via 24 cities.

By: SEO White Hats

SEO White Hats — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:41:57 +0000

I agree that this is a touchy subject, and I also agree that it is not necessarily link building, as it could be link building content or interest. Nonetheless, it is an interesting piece of information. Thanks.

By: Tom Broekhoven

Tom Broekhoven — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:50:47 +0000

I’ve also experienced that “quality” and Indian link building just won’t match.

By: Arnie K

Arnie K — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:25:50 +0000

A great little piece of research… and a touchy subject too. I have quite a bit of experience with India and one word that is almost never associated with their link building is “quality”.

By: Tertius

Tertius — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:28:50 +0000

Outsourcing educates other countries…

I don’t think this is a coincidence at all, all of the non-english-speaking SEO is India. No doubt.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:05:12 +0000

At least they are looking for information consurning link building…