As you already may know, from time to time I take freelance projects as well (very few lately, not much free time). Why ? Because I like testing new grounds, working with new niches/industries, meeting new website owners.

I bet you wonder what’s with the title of the post. Well, the ones that surf such freelance sites might know what I am talking about. This is how many projects start. People request several thousands links… but the fun part is not this, the fun part is that they want it for something like $500-$1000, and they want it as soon as possible, “in 1-2 months would be great”. My advice : be realistic. If you ever heard anyone that he got such an amount of links from a freelancer in such a timeline for such a price… THOSE ARE LIES. Believe me.

Assuming that you would find the person to bring you such things for such a sum and timeline, you have to take into account the time needed for the search engines to find the pages where your link was posted, to review it, and finally to index it. Also you have to know that bringing a lot of links towards your website in a short matter of time may trigger some alarms for the search engines, and your site might be penalized for “excessive non-organic links”.

So next time you need links for your website, do yourself a favor and stay away from the “I want 5.000 links to my website” cliché.