Outsourcing Services that Most Freelancers Offers

Quick List of Web Services:

• Link Building

• Virtual Assistant

• Content Writer

• Web Designer

• Site Admin

• Webmaster

• Programming Support

• Web Developer

Descriptions:

Link Builders

Link building is a small part of Search Engine Optimization. However, link building is considered a core activity in making any SEO campaign successful. Unfortunately link building takes time before an agent can produce excellent results. Quick and easy methods may bring in multiple links, but at Agents of Value we believe that building naturally embedded backlinks through organic methods is the best practice. Though organic SEO is time-consuming any client we build links for is assured that the backlinks we generate are long-term and may become permanent.

Some link building tasks may require quotas for both agents and clients to track and manage the link building campaign. Other tasks sometimes require a lot of time and effort in analyzing sites and pages that will benefit our clients’ sites for link backs. These tasks, although repetitive, often require analytical quick-thinking skills.

As an innovative and creative entrepreneur, you may be competent in accomplishing any link building task. However, doing it yourself may not be the best way to leverage the resources you have. First of all, time as a resource is very important. Time with your family might be more important to you than time spent at work. Time to enjoy life may be more advantageous at this time rather than keeping your self isolated in front of your desk. So what’s the best way to leverage your resources and enjoy the time you have? Outsource!

Outsourcing a link builder to do multiple link building tasks such as URL submissions and article submissions will lighten the workload and bring in better chances of achieving your end goal of increasing sales. 

Link Builder Skills:

1. Beginner HTML

2. Intermediate Writing Skills

3. Multitasking

4. Time Management

Link Builder Tasks:

1. URL Submission

2. Article Submission

3. Forum Posting

4. Blogging and Blog Commenting

5. Keyword Research, Keyword Analysis and Keyword Optimization

6. Basic Data Entry

7. Social Bookmarking and Social Media Marketing

Virtual Assistant

Virtual Assistants are the most sought after employees in the web today. Their value lies in the wide range of skills and abilities they possess from the technical to the creative. Although they might not need to edit a site’s source code, they are still expected to perform basic on-site SEO optimization. They also provide vital website help through emails, chats or live calls on-site with customers and site visitors. Because of that, Virtual Assistants must be intelligent, dynamic and quick learners.

Virtual Assistant Skills:

1. Advanced Written and Oral English

2. Advanced Typing Speed

3. Beginner HTML

4. Excellent Public Relations

Virtual Assistant Tasks:

1. Link Building Tasks

2. Client Support (Email / Call / Live Chat )

3. Transcribing

4. Internet Research

5. Writing Business Communications and Reports

6. Project management / Team leading

7. Basic Secretarial Work

Content Writer

Permanency and relevancy are two of the most important search engine ranking factors as well as high traffic and freshness of data. To maintain updates in your site you need to supply fresh information regularly. However, not everyone has the time to sit down and write new content each day. To help online businesses in their marketing endeavors, online writers, bloggers and copywriters are hired to create engaging and useful reading materials for visitors.

The best writers can write articles and sales pages that catch any reader’s imagination which moves them to action either to buy or sign up for more information. Building an email list is an effective prelude to generating sales. People who sign up for newsletters are highly interested in more info about your site’s product or service. These are the best possible leads you got.

Aside from that fresh valuable content has always been as the “King” in search engine optimization. To rank high in search results and drive more traffic to your site, always keep articles, blog posts, news, and other site content updated by a resident content manager at your site. This person must be an excellent writer and knows how to optimize content for SEO.

Content Writer Skills:

1. Advanced English Writing Skills

2. Beginner HTML

3. Intermediate Typing Speed

Content Writer Tasks:

1. Can Do Basic Link Building

2. Writing and Rewriting Articles / Web Content Optimization

3. Product and Website Reviews

Web Designer

Together with the Site Admin and Webmaster, the Web Designer works as one of the caretakers of a website. However, the Web Designer’s job is to maintain how a website looks to the user and make sure it appears as it should be across the most popular browsers. 

With the wide use of CSS styling to design a site, web designing became an easier job to accomplish but harder to manage altogether. This is why it is better to outsource one’s website design projects to ease site design management headaches, and open up new design styles not often seen in mainstream media. Website design, after all, is an art, and Art thrives well when it comes from a diversity of origins.

Web / Graphics Designer Skills:

1. Intermediate Skills in Using XHTML in Web Design

2. Intermediate Skills in Using CSS in Web Design

3. Advanced Knowledge in Web Design

Web / Graphics Designer Tasks:

1. Site Administrators’ Tasks

2. GIF Animation

3. Photo Enhancing

4. Graphics Designing

5. Modification and customization of website design

Site Admin

The Site Admin (as it is commonly referred to) manages a website’s popularity and growth. Unlike the webmaster which takes care of the site’s functions and database, the site admin makes sure the site works as it should be when used or navigated through by visitors. Links are checked and site processes such as signing up for membership is queued for Quality Assurance. Simply put: site admins work as assistants to Webmasters.

Site Admin Skills:

1. Intermediate HTML

2. Beginner CSS Styling

3. Beginner Writing Skills

4. Beginner Graphics Design

Site Admin Tasks:

1. Can Do Basic Link Building

2. Maintaining and modifying Websites/CMS

3. Managing Adwords / Adsense Accounts

4. Reciprocal Linking and Three-way Linking / Banner Ads Management

5. Basic Image Cropping and Enhancing

Webmaster

Websites take time to grow and flourish that is why they need people who have the technical expertise and the know-how to maintain a site’s popularity. To run a website it needs a team, and included in this team is the Webmaster. The Webmaster takes care of the site’s database, its content management system and its server setup. They also make sure the site’s domain is duly registered and protected from domain flippers and schemers.

A webmaster must have an extensive range of technical and creative skills to maintain a site efficiently. The following are just the main tasks and skills a webmaster is required to develop.

Webmaster Skills:

1. Advanced HTML

2. Advanced CSS Styling

3. Intermediate Graphics Design

Webmaster Tasks:

1. Site Administrator’s Tasks

2. Setup Servers

3. Domain Registry and Setup

4. Create and Customize Website using CMS

Programming Support

The first in the hierarchy is the PHP Programming Support, which was created as a lower-level skill position nearest to a Web Developer. The PHP Programming Support does what the Web Developer does but has less authority to do so. He works in a team with Web Developers and functions like an apprentice to a guild master in learning the craft of web programming.

PHP Programming Support Skills:

1. Beginner PHP Programming

2. Intermediate HTML

3. Intermediate CSS Styling

4. Beginner MySQL

5. Beginner Javascript

6. Beginner Graphics Design

PHP Programming Support Tasks:

1. Site Administrator’s Tasks

2. Create Dynamic Websites

Web Developer

The First-Level Web Developer is a more experienced and better skilled programmer who takes on more complicated tasks than a PHP Programming Support does. Web Developer I programmers serve as mentors to PHP Programming Support, like the Juniors leading the Freshmen through the intricacies of Teendom.

First-Level Web Developer Skills:

1. Intermediate PHP Programming

2. Intermediate MySQL

3. Intermediate HTML

4. Intermediate CSS Styling

5. Intermediate Javascript

6. Beginner Graphics Design

First-Level Web Developer Tasks:

1. Tasks of Webmasters

2. Create and Maintain Static, Dynamic and/or Data-Driven Sites

The Second-Level Web Developer is a highly experienced and skilled programmer who takes bigger and more data driven tasks than a Web Developer II does. If a project needs the big guns, then they are the persons to call on.

Second-Level Web Developer Skills:

1. Advanced PHP Programming

2. Advanced MySQL

3. Intermediate HTML

4. Intermediate CSS Styling

5. Intermediate Javascript

6. Beginner Graphics Design

Second-Level Web Developer Tasks:

1. Tasks of a First-Level Web Developer

2. Create and Maintain Static, Dynamic and/or Data-Driven Sites