Hi all, I am new to this forums, Here lot of people buy links, I see that most of them are after PR irrespective of the nature of website.This might harm the website rankings of the site you are optimizing. I buy links frequently for SEO.When you are spending money some money, you must expect quality links. Otherwise its waste of time and money. Here is what i do ? 1) I'll search for link:sitename.com in Google for the type of back links the site is having. 2)site:sitename.com for the indexed pages and the cached time. 3)"sitename.com" for knowing the nature of the domain name. you can even search for keywords like Domain "sitename" [ Generally dropped /deleted domain names are listed on some websites, you can easily find fake websites like this ] 4) Who is info and Good Neighborhood , links on site relevant to the website you are optimizing for, no sites with Viagra/warez/spam links This way you can simple eliminate crap/spammy/link farms websites Hope this helps for some of you . You too can list the practices you follow. Next time do check the above points for getting quality links. Thank you Paidi (Of course i do and practice SEO )