Buying/Selling Links - Affect on Google SERPS?

Hey guys,

I've just dicovered the world of selling links and have sold 6 on the footer of my main PR5 page. I'm wondering if this increase in outgoing links will have a negative effect on the SERPS?

I've bought a few incoming PR5 links to try and balance things out a bit but I'm pretty new to all this and have no idea what sort of impact adding a bunch of outgoing links or buying lots of incoming links all at once will have with Google.

I intend on selling some more links on some of my internal pages... should I wait awhile ot just go for it? Is adding too many links too fast a bad move?

Cheers,
Kirsty

 

Just make sure you do not link to bad neighborhoods. Like Porn, pharma, etc.

You got the point.

Link to websites that have related content to yours. If they are really quality websites, than that's even better.

 

This is my experience:
Outgoing links are fine, in fact SERPs can actually improve by linking to high quality, related sites. If you are linking to low quality sites that are not at all related to yours, then you may see some negative impact.

 

I read somewhere that Google was coming up with a system to detect paid links vs. natural links. I can't remember where.

 

LOL I am certain they are already on top of this. One thing I would avoid is blatantly announcing on your site that you ARE selling links.

Obv. like others have said don't link out to sites that are not relevant to the current theme of your site.

 

i dont agree with you beacuse there are link directories which have good position on google serp .

 

i have bought so many inbound link for my arcard sites that I can't remember how many. and indeed now my rank is on the first page of more than 100,000,000 results. Can you believe that?

 

If you are selling direct links, and label that section as Advertisments, more then likely, those websites will not have any PR or weight passed to.

Just a small mention from me, speaking of detecting links

 

I completely agree. Talk about an EASY way for google to detect paid links.

 

Directories, with a decent google-trust, will pass PR, because they are on topic. Good directories organize their content by subject. That subject means the links are on topic.

 

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/webvisie/wikipedia-links.html

What's that page about ?

 

Just make sure that only do linking with theme base link as you doing inbounding links or outbounding links

 

So let me see if I have this right then?
The Great Google, god of all the internet deems that selling links is not OK as far as they are concerned.

Erm - WTF is ADSENSE if not a sold link?

I have a site that contains adsense therefore I am selling links? Is Google not my Link pimp? Answers on a postcard please!

 

No. Adsense is selling ad space.

By selling a text link, you influence the organic listings.

No search engine should allow anyone to influence it's organic listings. So what is Google doing, is fighting against us, smart webmasters, or web marketing agencies, however it can

 

But the space I sell (via adsense) has a direct text link to the advertisers site. How is that different to me buying on topic links from sites that I want to place my link on?

After all, I am buying space from them, in the form of a text link but space non the less. If the link is on topic and from a stron PR site, how can Google differentiate between me buying a link for the traffic or for the PR?

 

CTR, perhaps.

 

If the link has a rel=nofollow tag, then Google will know you are not trying to cheat the system.

 

It explains the do's and don'ts of putting your links into wikipedia.

 

So are you suggesting that if you buy links that you should implore the webmaster to put that around the links so you dont "cheat" the system. Thats rediculous. Its not my fault or anyone who buys links that it "might" help you in the SERPS.

IMO use "nofollow" when you link to a site that might not be relevant to your overall theme.

 

Google will count links on directories like the yahoo directory. So some paid links are not a problem at all. There is a blurry line between paid links and non-paid links as far as SEO is concerned.
For instance, in the recent SEO conference all search engines said that they would not discount links on review pages. So if a review is paid for, which effectively means the link is paid for, the search engines are not going to mind it. They are going to discount links if the 'signature' of the links is suspicious. Which means they will do elaborate guessing games to distinguish paid from free links. They are obviously not going to be successful all the time. But things like sitewides (on anything other than a blog), having the precise same number of links on all pages, linking to sites totally unrelated to your content, and adding a heading 'paid link' are pretty certain to give google a flag 'don't trust this link'.