SEOfrancois

Last time I was in Amsterdam - for A4U + AAC last year - it was Queen's Day. There was A LOT going on! People and colors everywhere...

This year, we're one week early for Queen's day apparently... and you can really feel the difference! The streets feel so empty!

More surprinsingly, the sessions at CAC feel empty too. It seems not a lot of attendees are coming to the sessions - any session! Yet, the content is of pretty high quality. So far, we are definitely at A4U or SES levels regarding SEO content... Something you wouldn't necessarily expect from a Casino conference...

I definitely enjoyed the sessions I attended today including Christoph Cemper (great link building tips as usual), Frank Watson and Gary Beal.

However, I think the highlight of the day for me was to meet Sébastien Monnier (who was giving a presentation on behalf of his company 1ère position). I wish there were more French SEOs like him. I mean people who really know what they are talking about! I might even end up reconsidering my rant about how France is a 3rd world country as far as Search is concerned :p

Also had some nice chats with Peter van der Graaf, Mathieu Burgerhout, Matteo Monari & more...

My own presentation is tomorrow morning at 9 am! It's insanely early... and if I had had a choice, I defintely would have presented at a different time (I'm also on a panel in the afternoon btw)... Nonetheless, I think the content will be worth getting up that early, if you're brave enough! ;)

Okay, back to powerpoint ironing! :p

We had a nice new session on Offshore Outsourcing at SES London today. I personally enjoyed presenting and the Q&A segment was very interesting in my opinion. I also got some nice feedback which is always nice. Globally I think it was a good session. If you were there, please let us know what you thought! :)

I promised to a few people that I'd make the powerpoint available right away, so here it is; there is a download link at the bottom of this post. It's a bit heavy (2.6 MB) so I'll see if I can somehow come up with a lighter version.

Also, as promised, here's a longer list of sites you can use to start outsourcing work today:

• 99designs
• Amazon mechanical turk
• Elance
• Freelancer
• Guru
• LimeExchange
• oDesk <------------- my personal favorite
• PeoplePerHour
• RentACoder

If you're already using another site that works well for you, please let us know also!

Finally, if you have some unanswered questions, feel free to post them below.

Thanks for your feedback! ;)

-Francois.

I will be speaking at SES London next month about one of my favorite topics recently: Offshore Outsourcing.

In the last 6 months I've been interviewing more than 300 providers in different developing countries and hired about 50 of them. I believe I've learned quite a few useful things about how to optimize the process! ;)

Come check out my panel on the 17th: "Best Practices in Offshore Outsourcing for Digital Marketing". It should be interesting!

Also, let me know if you need a coupon code for SES (I can get you 20% off registration).