Comments on: 6 Reasons Why You Should & Should NOT Buy Links to Increase Your Search Engine Rankings

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TNX.net Review - Text Link Brokering Still Alive? — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:09:43 +0000

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By: California Web Design

California Web Design — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:53:19 +0000

I don’t think there is anything wrong with buying links, I love buying links just got to make sure they are not links that are looked down upon by the search engine.

By: Gerri

Gerri — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:45:20 +0000

Thanks for the post. I have thought about the pros and cons of paid links and this post makes things a lot clearer for me.

By: Aurelius Tjin

Aurelius Tjin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:25:45 +0000

This is very interesting! I have enjoyed reading this very insightful post. Very engaging and informative. Thanks for sharing.

By: Michael Heindel

Michael Heindel — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:59:13 +0000

Paid Links are all about ROI. At least for me.

Yes it is nice to get a little link boost from the SEs, but if I get clicks from the site my link shows up on that is what matters most.

Using a 5 cent per click basis if I pay $20 for a link and get 400 clicks I am happy. If one or more of those clicks converts into a sale, even better.

Michael

By: motorsportBABESau

motorsportBABESau — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:54:44 +0000

Cheers for the great info. I have not yet considered buying links but may if I start a new site.

By: Wil Reynolds

Wil Reynolds — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:09:21 +0000

SEO dude, you hit an important issue here, which someone could do and we’re testing right now. I’ll share my findings if anything springs up.

See, penalizing is different than devaluing. I tend to believe that Google is more likely to say “go ahead buy links for 1000/month” they just don’t add value because we flagged site x as a link seller.

In theory if I could just buy links to my competitor and drop em, we’d see that happening left and right…then what? Legit sites get dropped?

There is a flaw in that logic, in my honest opinion.

Trying to stay one step ahead of Google is a bad idea.

Gyuate – can you please let readers know that the theme of the presentation was “futureproofing your SEO”, so the focus of about 2 hours was on how to NOT rely on low value recips, directory, and bought links to maintain rankings, but instead to use other means that are legit to keep your rankings for the long haul and that we spent about 15 minutes discussing that some of that works today, but to futureproof your SEO don’t rely on those to be more than a jumpstart for rankings that should be ultimately be maintained by having great content and making relationships.

Wow…that was a long sentence!

By: SEO dude

SEO dude — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:38:46 +0000

What about competition removal. What if someone decides to go around deindexing his competition by buying links for them?

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