I see People buying Posts on Blog Networks & Purchasing / Renting Expensive links every day. I'm not saying that you should not do it. You Have to Purchase Links, but there are many things you need to know before you do it and there are many more options that you must not forget. If you do not have a big budget for buying links, there are various other options for you. You need not spend $1000 a year to rent just 20 links on 20 PR3 blogs for a year. You do not need to spend $250 for buying posts on blog networks consisting of 40 blogs or so. I just want to say what i thought after watching various threads by people purchasing yearly links. If you are looking for only High PR & Top quality links, the best way to do it is to rent links on established sites or buy Blogposts on reputed blogs. This can be done using the Link Sales Forum. Rented links will not be permanent and may cost you like $50 per link per year - not worth at all! Once you post a WTB Thread, you will get many offers from people that sell posts on blogs made just for selling posts & nothing else. I suggest you to take a look at the alexa rank of the blog and check whether its PR is valid. Also make sure the blogs are aged enough (A year or more is good) If you are paying a lot to buy links on a blog and expect good results, make sure you check the following: The Blog Should be Aged (1 year or more is good & demonstrates the seriousness of the blog owner). It should have unique content. You can check using copyscape. It should be updated frequently. Google loves blogs that are regularly updated. It should be a genuine blog. Make sure all posts are not sponsored ones. You can easily tell that by watching 2 or 3 outgoing links to the same site in a post. I am sure you know how a sponsored post looks like. The blog must have good alexa rank. I have heard that it can be faked by buying low quality traffic. But still it helps. It should be less than 1,000,000. Make sure the PR is valid. Many bloggers fake their PR. There are some other things. I think i have listed the most important ones. There are people that sell posts on low quality blog networks - such networks are often flagged by google & may not provide good benefits and they are definitely NOT worth the price. While buying links, make sure the site is genuine and old enough. Many sites have high PR but that is often due to the High PR domains purchased by the owner. In many cases, the PR of such domains is lost after the next PR update. Article Submission is by far the best way to build links. It is also the cheapest. And you do not have to suffer from Duplicate Content & Google Sandbox issues. Misconceptions Among People About Article Submissions: I'll suffer From Duplicate Content Issue: Article spinning minimizes this issue. You need not worry! My site will get sandboxed!! - Gradual Article Submissions completely prevent the Google Sandbox. In many services, it is possible to set the submissions to be done gradually thus preventing the Sandbox issue. I do provide seo services. I am in no way saying that my services are the best here. They may be, but i would like to hear it from my customers, not say it myself. I have just found the thing that works! In this thread, I just wanted to say that you should not buy links blindly. Spend your money wisely. Let me know if i missed something or if i was wrong. All kinds of opinions (positive or negative) are fully welcome. Happy Money Making, Jacky8