Hi all, This is my first post! I have been reading the thread “How much per month do you spend on links?†with great interest. I am just starting out with SEO and plan on buying links to my site. I have been working with link exchanges, article submission and directory submission but believe there is a limit on what I can get out of that (Links on pages with no high page rank). My primary keyword is very competitive, I think if I buy some links on sites with similar content, with a high page rank value it will benefit my position with Google. My question is, what does your link budget go on? How do you obtain links on relevant sites? How do you cut a deal with the site owner? Do you offer free content, such as articles, images, design work etc? I have around $500-$1000 budget for buying links and would like advice on the best way to spread this budget. What techniques work the best – To exchange the link for cash or content? I hope this is my first post of many – Great forum, great members! Thanks in advance!
First I would like to welcome you to DP. Regarding buying links, If you have around $500-$1000 budget I advice you to first find the top 10 sites of your keywords. Then offer them that you are buying links from them. Ofcourse you will get unreasonable offers from them. But a must try. 2nd there are lot of people posting about advertising on their sites try to find thats best suits your sites. Usually you will get a much cheaper offer rather than posting that you wanted to buy links (WTB). Also if you will buy links think of the quality not quantity. Just a few suggestion.
and if the top 10 sites for your keyword are your competition, try doing searches for things like "your keyword phrase" in combination with resource phrases like: HISTORY, resources, groups, stories, etc, etc...find sites that are related, old, and have lots of trusted backlinks to them (non-seo'd sites) and buy links within the content area of thier site. (not just a link in an advertising section....but a link in the middle of a paragraph).
I agree with Khasmoth - buy for quality, not quanity. Not many, but some SEOs can do more with three PR3s than with one or two PR9s. If I were you, I would find the most relevant links - this will not only suggest referral traffic, but build link popularity. To get you a higher placement in the SERPs you also want relevant info linking to and from your site - but this is where quantity helps! Also, content hosted pages are very beneficial (or at least have been for my clients) - Within the numerous domain resources I have access to, we can insert a page (within the same categorical/theme listings) generated with useful/ relevant content - then embed links to your site. The advantage is 100% relevancy to your targeted terms within a prospects search, thus resulting in referral traffic and unique visitors. I hope that helps! Let me know if I can do anything further ST3PHAN13
Also, take into account the ILQ, the ILQ rates how old the domain name is as well as whether it's getting links from extremely trusted domains like a .edu or a .gov Getting a link from a trusted site with a .gov or .edu extension can be very helpful, the ILQ tool at: http://www.seocompany.ca/directory/ilqtool.html To check whether people have backlinks from .edu or .gov websites
Thanks for every ones comments so far. Jordash - My sites are adult, so not sure if i can find a site with simular content that will have a link from a .gov .edu site! ST3PHAN13 - Great idea. More content the better I agree. webuildpages - A great idea! I searched on G for my keyword and history, fount a few good sites but the email bounced back! damn!