[perrysimicart]

I have always thought of SEO as something I do myself but just recently, someone said that I don't need to and that I would be better off hiring an SEO consultant as this would give me more time to focus on other areas of my business, but I'm still not quite convinced?

What really is the better option in your opinion? All valid answers welcome

[SEO]

If you can cook, you can choose to cook at home or to go to a restaurant, where other people (cooks) will cook for you.

If that SEO consultant is as good as you or better, then (if you really want more time to focus on other areas), you can hire him (or her).

Money for time. More money = less time; More time = less money.

[jackluter]

I think it's better to do by yourself, then only you can easily identify the price of outsourcing and the effort applied to rank the website top in search results.

[johnniewalk]

So i would like to suggest you that, it is better to hire a SEO Team that who can look after your website and optimized as SEO friendly instead of outsourcing it. Because if you hire outsource they use some blackhat seo techniques which was armful for your rankings..

[MSL]

We're never sure who is using black hat, gray hat, white hat, green hat...