Legiit Freelancer Marketplace Review — Fiverr Alternative
By: Keywords Heaven
Tags: SEO, Search Engine Optimizati, Seo Services, Freelance, Freelancing

When building an online business, quite commonly you will need to outsource some tasks. For small tasks, we generally prefer to hire freelancers from micro service or “gig” focused websites like Legiit, Fiverr, SEOclerks, or Konker. These platforms help us with the individual parts of our SEO implementation process, allowing us to focus on strategy and on scaling our business. That being said, not all of these platforms are created equal, and some of them are better for specific tasks. In this article, we provide you with our Legiit review.

Background

Legiit was started at the beginning of 2018 by a relatively popular SEO and a friend of ours, Chris M. Walker aka Superstar SEO. He was, and currently still is, one of the top sellers on another SEO marketplace called Konker, but felt he could build a better marketplace.

Legiit as a Fiverr Alternative

Buyer’s Perspective

While Fiverr is great for some non-SEO related tasks, we feel as though, on average, platforms like Legiit and Konker have better quality services when it comes to SEO. That being said, while Legiit is a full service freelancer marketplace, there currently are not that many services offered outside of SEO space. Therefore, we generally stick to Fiverr or other platforms like Upwork for those tasks.

Seller’s Perspective

Even though Legiit may have less traffic than Fiverr, the competition is also less and therefore, in our opinion, it is easier to get started. We also feel like the SEO specific nature of the marketplace justifies a slightly higher price point on the average service when compared to Fiverr. This essentially allows for sellers to make more and not get bogged down by the “cheap” nature if non SEO specific services.

Affiliate’s Perspective

From an affiliate‘s perspective, Legiit beats Fiverr hands down. This is due to their higher payouts as well as their terms of what counts towards a commission. On Fiverr, affiliates only earn on new signups, while on Legiit affiliates earn on any service purchased by a new or existing user.

Platform Quality / Ease Of Use

The design and functionality of Legiit is generally modeled after other gig platforms, like that of Fiverr, which we like. Overall the platform is built pretty well and the UI/UX is relatively simple. While the first few versions of Legiit needed some polishing, it has gotten better since then, and Chris continues to improve it. We even recommended a specific feature to him and he implemented it within a couple of weeks!

Platform Security

The platform works well and seems to follow security best practices. It also accepts payments via PayPal, keeping payments easy and safe.

Quality of Services Offered

While not every service on the platform is of good quality, we feel that overall the services offered are of higher quality than those on other platforms, especially considering that Chris sells his own services on the platform.

Here are some services that we recommend when shopping on Legiit:

Citations: This is a good gig for citations because they manually create them and fill them out more thoroughly than other gigs.

Press Releases: Great for boosting a site after it has built a little bit of authority.

Social Signals: This is a good gig for helping you build a trust foundation.

Guest posts: Guest posts are great for building power once you have already gained some trust and authority with Google. Without overdoing it, we recommend using partial match keyword anchor text for an added boost.

PBN Links: This is a high quality PBN gig that has boosted our rankings. We typically don’t use PBNs on tier 1, but rather use them to boost parasite rankings, like those of Medium articles, or to put on tier 2.

GMB Verifications: This is one of the only services we could find that offers GMB verifications using postcards. Most of the other services we have come across use other methods that may not be as secure.

Link Foundation: We have used this gig many times over the years and it has consistently helped rank our sites higher. We recommend using it to help gain authority for any new website you build.

Content writing: Consistently decent content writing services at a reasonable price are hard to come by. These guys offer that in our opinion.

As you can see, there are many good services on Legiit, and if used properly, they can boost your rankings.

Payments

Similar to other platforms, Legiit integrates seamlessly with PayPal, which will also allow you to use credit cards. As well as being convenient, using PayPal adds a layer of customer security to the platform because, if needed, customers can file a dispute with PayPal to recover payments.

Support

For those who run into issues or need to ask any questions, Legiit has a designated support portal powered by Freshdesk. It is simple to navigate, but we have not had any extensive interaction with their support.

Selling on Legiit

Legiit is a great place to sell your services because there isn’t a ton of competition. All you need to do to get started is create a store on the platform and upload your services. Make sure that your service is a specific task and not something general like “I will provide SEO services for you”. The services that have a clear deliverable, like “I will create 200 citations”, for example, do better. If you are having trouble getting your first few orders, we recommend advertising your services in some Facebook groups, but please make sure the group allows it before posting. Also, if you currently sell your services on another platform or on your own website, you can ask your current clients to purchase from you on Legiit and to leave a review in exchange for a discount.

Affiliate Program

Legiit offers a 15% affiliate commission on the services promoted. While the average ticket on the platform is not that high, the commission is generally a lot higher than the 4% to 8% that Amazon offers through their affiliate program for example. The platform is also a relatively trusted name in the SEO niche, so if you cookie people and send them over, you have a good chance of getting a conversion.

How to Promote Offers

You can promote the Legiit offerings by ranking blog articles, like this one, creating YouTube videos, sending links to your email list or Facebook group, suggesting services in Facebook groups (when people ask for them), running paid traffic to them, and more. It is really quite simple to promote SEO services and overall, low competition if you select the right keywords.

Legiit Review Conclusion

If you are trying to get started making money with SEO, whether from a buyer’s, sellers’, or affiliate’s perspective, Legiit is a great platform to use, especially right now in its infancy while the competition is still relatively low.