What is it?
Outsourcing is simply the act of contracting a certain portion of your work to a third party business. There’s an old conventional belief that everything should always be kept in house. As the digital marketing landscape continues to unfold and branch out this just isn’t worth sticking to. The digital landscape makes it easier than ever to go global. With everything accessible online there’s nothing stopping you from pooling the best of the best resources from around the world and harnessing them into results.
Time & Money
Many businesses see outsourcing as a dirty word. In reality it’s a logical business strategy that allows you to scale your business, better manage your time and money, and actually get the results you’re after. When looking into SEO outsourcing it’s important to evaluate your budget. How much money will you spend on SEO services in house, and how much could you save by outsourcing? When running the numbers, it’s important to consider that costs that aren’t actually financial. Time and resources are a huge cost when it comes to SEO and they won’t necessarily show up on your budgeting sheets. The time it takes to run a thorough SEO service in house isn’t such a viable strategy. The way you probably hired a graphics expert and a copywriter to carry out those specific tasks, don’t try to double down, outsource to a dedicated SEO team and ensure that you’re getting the right return on investment with quality SEO.
Knowledge & Skill
SEO is no simple feat. It requires specific knowledge and a lot of dedicated time to be done correctly. For startups especially you may only have a small team on hand. Taking away valuable time for them to spend hours a day optimising content and site pages is going to cost you. Outsourcing means your core staff don’t lose any time and can instead spend it making twice the amount of content for optimisation. Training your staff in SEO is another thing that will cost you precious time and money. As with most things digital the SEO landscape is constantly shifting. With new algorithms, rules and regulations, guidelines, and formats if you’re going to tackle your own SEO you need to be committed to staying on top of all of it. A dedicated SEO resource means they’re always up skilling with up to date knowledge and practices without you having to pull any other valuable employees away from their everyday tasks to be trained.
Best Practice vs Black Hat
When it comes to SEO there are plenty of ways to go about it. Some people just want a get rich quick scheme and others are willing to put in the work. Search engines have implemented algorithms that recognise unique and original SEO content and will often penalise those that try to cut corners. Unless you do a deep dive into SEO techniques you probably won’t even be aware of the unorthodox or “black hat” techniques. It’s not worth the risk of getting your site penalised, reported, or banned. With an expert and specialist SEO team you’re guaranteed to be sticking to best practices at all times.