Hello I have a fairly new site (3 mo.) with PR 0, minimally-crawled website. The content is good (no, it is), there are no pop-ups or spam; but it seems I am going to be stuck in Google's sandbox for several more months. Having optimized my site to the extent a newbie can, submitted prematurely and too often (ah well, you learn!), and placed some Adwords with mediocre at best results, I feel I now have little choice but to buy back-links if I want to improve traffic. However, I PR'd some sites another poster had sig'd (on a similar forum), who said he had bought links, ... and they were still PR 0! I can't see related sites being prepared to exchange links with me. So, what to do? Any suggestions from the old hands out there?
Buying links is still not going to get you out of the sandbox. If you are smart you will wait till you are out of the sandbox otherwise you will be paying for thinks that won't help you for a few months.
Thanks for the response. I'll heed your advice. I have another totally unrelated site with much better traffiked keywords that I am starting to work on so I'll focus on that.
Does Textlinkbrokers give referrals? Can you see other sites that they have links on? I would check to see if their clients are getting good results... ie back links etc.
I just received an email from them as well, offering $100-$200 per link, which would be nice, but I would like to know if anyone has any positive experiences selling them links.
Since it turned out that their emails were nothing but spam I decided to give them the finger... I did check out a place called linkworth.com. Setup my site, posted my details... put up a crazy price of 60 bucks for a link, and after 2 days I got an advertiser!! When his time is up I will lower my price a bit and I'm sure that will attract more people. You should give it a try, but the site is already very crowded, so only submitt your site if it is really worth it, I'd suggest a low Alexa, nice PR and healthy amount of visitors to get advertisiers interested.
Isn't this site run by disgust?? I am not 100% sure about this, but I think it is. P.S: Yes, it must be. The website's URL is in her sugnature: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/member.php?u=489
TextLinkBrokers do provide paid links to directory owners and once enrolled in the program they send you a fair amount of links per month - nice extra cash.
Fryman, I am curious to know what is the PR of your home page. I tried to approach companies similar to textlink brokers and it seems they are considering only (or primarily) PR6 or more web sites. I personaly have not recieved this email Remy
It depends what program you apply for - they have two programs. One program only requires relatively low PR. They pay from $5 to $10 on these links depending on page placement. If you get offered this service by them and you want to earn extra cash - take them up on it.
It's a one time payment for a permanent link. If you want to sell links on a monthly or annual basis - try selling links at auction sites - that's one good way to bring in extra income.
Has anyone some experience in that (auctions) ? What is sellable (PR6 mini ? PR4 ? PR 2 ? home page only ? full site ? other pages ?) What sort of price (real prices, not announced prices) ? Are there traps to avoid from a seller's point of vue ?
You can sell PR3 and up at auction, from the homepage and internal pages. For pricing check out what similar auctions sell for before you place your auctions. No seller traps really - I've never lost money. Just be very clear on the types of sites you will accept and the types of sites you won't.
Fryman, We do not send spam emails. We have real people that visit sites looking for those that meet the criteria. In order for us to contact you, you must have a PR4 site that mentions on it that you are looking to exchange links. Granted, a few emails may be sent by mistake, but if you are asking for link exchanges then Im not sure how you could consider it spam for us to contact you. For the people that get contacted more then once, its because they have more then 1 site asking to do link exchanges that meet are criteria. We try hard not to send to the same site twice. I'm not sure why nobody ever contacted you back but I assure you it wasnt intentional. Jarrod Hunt CEO Textlinkbrokers