Buying Links.... Has anyone ever been caught?

Discussion in 'Google' started by Web12345, Mar 23, 2009.

  1. #1
    I keep seeing that if you buy backlinks, Google will penalize you

    But how will Google know if you bought a link?

    Is Google really that All-Knowing??
     
    Web12345, Mar 23, 2009 IP
  2. john1021

    john1021 Member

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    You can get away with it, but I wouldn't buy links from Text Link Ads or TNX.net because they are much more easier to track. I personally don't buy links because it's a dog eat dog world and the real SEO experts will know if you are buying them or not. Then they will report you to Google, and then you wasted months or even years of time on a site just to start over again. There are other options to find links for free.
     
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  3. seopartner

    seopartner Banned

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    #3
    Yes google can identify who is selling link :)
     
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  4. lifeplayer

    lifeplayer Notable Member

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    #4
    Buy link is fine if it is nofollow.
    I buy link but only to get traffic which is nofollow and it is fine with that
    Dont buy bulk link, it is dangerous and easy get caught
     
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  5. FightRice

    FightRice Peon

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    #5
    I report just about ever single site that sells links i can find :D

    Get them naturally, or GTFO out the engines its a thousand times easier
     
    FightRice, Mar 23, 2009 IP
  6. pascalsundhar1

    pascalsundhar1 Banned

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    #6
    I have purchased buylinks for 500 sites..But google not indexed those site names as backlinks....

    They know almost all buylinks company and avoid them..No use to increas page rank..

    Dont buy them..
     
    pascalsundhar1, Mar 23, 2009 IP
  7. ezinequeen

    ezinequeen Peon

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    #7
    Yes Google know every thing
     
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  8. shah0516

    shah0516 Peon

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    What if we do direct deals? i mean diirectly contacting other webmaster for links???
     
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  9. blognbucks

    blognbucks Peon

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    #9
    never buy links, it will ban you after sometime from google or lower your PR someday as google catches you.
     
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  10. pahirp

    pahirp Greenhorn

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    #10
    If you buy links you are just asking for penalties from google in terms of rankings
     
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  11. malcolm1

    malcolm1 Prominent Member

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    #11
    Hello...

    Its just the ratts you have to worry about..
    I guess the only alternative is BUY adwords right? ...Not

    If you want to link with relative sites for traffic then i dont see it being a problem though
    they will want to see no follow being used most of the time especially if its not relative in niche.

    laterz
    malcolm
     
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  12. eLeSlash

    eLeSlash Active Member

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    Its ok if you buy 2-3 links but dont buy more than 5.
     
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    hbl Well-Known Member

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    #13
    In order to stay within Google's quality guidelines, paid links should be disclosed through a rel="nofollow" or other techniques such as doing a redirect through a page which is robots.txt'ed out.
     
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  14. marandukltd

    marandukltd Peon

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    What about directory links, some high ranking directories charge for links are they also penalised?
     
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  15. Reseg

    Reseg Peon

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    #15
    I've never seen Google penalize for buying links, only selling them. Where people get confused is why they THINK they were penalized after buying links as their PR and serps drop, but reality is the site they bought their link from was penalized and passes little to no link juice voiding the link and indirectly effecting your site.

    If they penalized sites for buying links then imagine all the cheap link buying people would do to get links to competitor sites and get them in trouble. $50 to knock a competitor down in serps would become common practice.

    Google has said many times you can't control who links to you, you can only add quality links to that list.
     
    Reseg, Mar 24, 2009 IP
  16. ciorap2009

    ciorap2009 Banned

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    #16
    I buy links and i dont think google can`t tell every website that does it.
     
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  17. ravenwood

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    #17
    Yes only sellers were penalized
     
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    seosapien Peon

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    It is a dangerous technique. Some industries base their SEO on buying links. Look at the online betting industry, most sites have hundreds of thousands of incoming links 95% of which are paid for! It depends on the industry you are optimizing, if you are competing against sites with 500 links and all of the sudden you have 50.000 incoming links google will probably catch you cause it wouldn't be natural. We call this "google discrimination", some industries are penalized for certain things while other highly depend on them. Ask any SEO that has worked in any really competitive industry (billion dollars industries) and if they tell you that they have never bought a link to get in the top 10 they are lying.
     
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  19. drjupitor

    drjupitor Banned

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    #19
    If Google can spot the buying of links, why so many people are buying links in BST section? I am getting confused.
     
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  20. longcall911

    longcall911 Peon

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    #20
    G will catch many if not most. If you get caught, you're finished. Is it worth it?

    /*tom*/
     
    longcall911, Mar 24, 2009 IP