Buying Links, Good or Bad?

[gpearce]

I've been looking around, and from what I can see, there is a mixed opinion on this. I was wondering, what do you think of it? Should you buy links, or do you think Google will peanalise you?
Would appreciate any thoughts or comments :)

[MOG]

I've been looking around, and from what I can see, there is a mixed opinion on this. I was wondering, what do you think of it? Should you buy links, or do you think Google will peanalise you?
Would appreciate any thoughts or comments :)

it boils down like this:

buying links for PR juice: BAD
buying links for traffic: GOOD.

its really that simple. Now if your link buying for TRAFFIC results in a higher pagerank down the road, then all well and good. Just dont buy them for PR alone, as thats a total waste of money.

[rosiee007]

Make sure you try to find in-text links from related sites only. They are the best.

[MOG]

Make sure you try to find in-text links from related sites only. They are the best.

good advice, more good advice would be to have your inbound links within relevant text, ie not just a link by itself, but a link within a paragraph of text about your niche.

[MeetHere]

Its inevitable for SERPs and SEO ;)

[virusdevil]

ye related links r only good if u buy a link on a PR7 site but its not relevant to ur sites, it wont help that much, and somtimes google even banns for buy links.

[gpearce]

Fair enough.
What happens if I give away a proxy template, which links back to my website, whcih isn't proxy related? Will that hurt me? Or should I link to the page on my site giving away the proxy tempalte? I don't know :|

[roy77]

Links = Life.
No links = No life.
No links = No Search engine rankings
No links = No $$$

So. . .buying links .... good or bad?

[adacprogramming]

Be sure that the link is worth buying even without any thought to PR. If it is buy it, if not then likely you will be wasting your money

[Adam Za7]

Learn how to buy links from reputable places, or buy them from someone who already knows. Buying links from the wrong places can hurt your sites from penalties. Stay away from payperpost or sites with disclosure statements, theres the best tip I can give.

I am watching sites get downgraded on every update. I deal with links and blogs all day everyday. I am sorry to say most people still don't know where to buy links from.

[gabibeowulfx]

Well .. buying links for seo is still good .. :P ... I still do it and I get away with it .. the thing is I only buy from sites relevant to my own site .. and .. I allways check if the site passes PR to the sites that allready have their links there ;)

[MOG]

Fair enough.
What happens if I give away a proxy template, which links back to my website, whcih isn't proxy related? Will that hurt me? Or should I link to the page on my site giving away the proxy tempalte? I don't know :|

That is a question that is being heavily debated accross MANY other threads here at DP.

In MY opinion it doesnt hurt, but the value is much much less per link. ie. a link from a PR3 RELEVANT site might be worth say 100 points, and a link from a non relevant blog that happens to be a PR5 might only be worth 1 point.

I am vastly oversimplifying my thoughts on this here, but for the purpose of illustration it works.

[angilina]

according to google paid links are bad

[w3bmaster]

You know the say to much is no good

Plus only with relevant sites is the best way to go

[adacprogramming]

according to google paid links are bad

Not quite true. Links bought to try to game PR are penalized, Links bought for traffic is fine. The trouble is Google has a hard time telling the difference.

Google is trying to do with an algorithm what is pretty easy to do by a human. Don't but links for any reason that look like paid links.

Examples,
20 text links in the footer of the page, all with top keywords, don't add yours here.

A bunch of keyword loaded links on many subjects scrolling down a column of a page (doesn't look suspicions at all does it?)

A "review" blog where every post is on a completely unrelated subject giving two-three links to one site. (hmm.. could these possible be paid for???)

If you can look at the site and in a few seconds point out a bunch of links that are very likely bought, then chances are Google can too.

[chaos]

Fair enough.
What happens if I give away a proxy template, which links back to my website, whcih isn't proxy related? Will that hurt me? Or should I link to the page on my site giving away the proxy tempalte? I don't know :|


An unrelated link will never hurt you, it just may not help you.

[linkman2008]

An unrelated link will never hurt you, it just may not help you.

I agree on that, only relevant links are useful.

[droper]

If the link which you buy looks like a natural organic link from a related site, that is a very good purchase :-)
So, buy links thinking about it it looks real or not.

[pitbullt]

I would say it also depends on how much it helps

[regalwilliam]

Be sure that the link is worth buying even without any thought to PR. If it is buy it, if not then likely you will be wasting your money

I am appreciate you thought. Links should be from quality of sites.

Thank's

[byronthurman]

I agree that buying links is good because every site needs traffic or it will go absolutely nowhere. Trust me I spent a year going nowhere :rolleyes:

And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that there is a condition to googles standpoint. If you are going to sell your links and they are not relevant, then you need to use a nofollow tag to prevent the googlebot from reading the nonrelevant adspace. Makes sense when you remember that googlebot scans your site for keywords, and it also applies a certain "weight" to different formats. Such as the words in your title and heading tags as opposed to a long paragraph of words in standard formatting.

So a problem is created when a site sells their links without regard to whether it "fits in" with the content of their site. And if you sell links to gambling sites and other websites in categories that google considers below their ethics standard then they will drop your PR. I'm pretty sure they'll penalize you more for a non-related gambling or spyware product link than they would just a standard non-related link. But I could most certainly be wrong about that. :confused: