Hey SEO experts, I have a question for you guys. I see that the trend in link building today is getting blog posts and blogroll links. I was wondering if this was a good long-term practice or not? In the "link sales" section of the forum, we can see hundreds of transactions daily between blog owners and blog buyers. I have tried this myself and I admit that I have seen good results and very quick improvement in my PR/rankings. However, after studying the blog URLs of the sellers of high quality blogs (those of PR5 and above) I noticed that most of them used to be government or educational websites that dropped and these guys secured the domain when it dropped and turned it into a blog. Isn't this a dangerous practice? I mean, doesn't Google know that a domain has dropped and been bought again by someone who made a blog on it? How come the PR stays so high? Can your site be penalized in the long-term if you buy a blogroll link from such a blog?
Hello, If i was you... i wouldn't get into this, Google knows and sees everything ! Be careful ! Sauron.
You can get penalized for this as it would be considered link buying with the intent of increasing serp's. It does seem like Google penalizes the sellers more, that could change at any time. It's like buying drugs....the cops prefer to go after the dealers, but they have no problem busting the occasional user. I have found that with this strategy there are decent serp effects shortly after. As the post gets pushed to page #2 and the archives, the effect of those links drops significantly. So it is not the best long term strategy.
If it's a very good practice and could greatly improve your SERP but avoid blogs that publish only paid blgposts. As always you should try to fly under the radars. Related in-content backlinks will definitely help you.
Cherry pick and don't get lazy buying links from blogs. Look at each one and stay away from just letting anyone write about your website. Also, look at each blog/site and examine their blog posts. If 5, 6, or 7 out of 10 on the homepage look like they were paid for, move to the next one. We tend to buy from ones that look like they write a lot of their own posts. We also try and buy from blog review networks that are super expensive and actually show the blogger's domains. Then we contact the website owner directly because the blog review sites takes such a huge cut of the blogger's earnings. We offer them slightly more and they're happy and they make more money. If you can find existing pages with the keywords already in the pages, go for them first. Beats having to have an entirely new blog post written by the blogger and they tend to pass more value.
Well I considered buying blog post to be a good practice then buying links. Buying blog post can be seem as a genuine one.
How effective is buying forum links? It seems like finding someone with a signature and 10,000 posts in a relevant forum would be huge for search engine rankings, yet I have not seen anybody write anything about it during my short time in SEO.
yes its not a bad practice buying blog posting may give you benefit untill unless it stay on main page.don't buy excessive post. be wise, be relevant and be patience to get serp. Natural effort surly improve SERP but it takes time.
Most people wouldn't recommend it because Google will find out. You have to be careful about it and not go over the top.
Most people go and buy like 10 blog posts and 100's of blogroll links not knowing wheather they are even related the slightest bit. This is where they mess up and get penalized by Google.
Google mentions in it's keyword tools area to NOT buy links. Google is always striving to bring natural results through good SEO. I'm thinking that Google would likely learn about purchased blogrolls at some point and also penalize. I agree with Bear Grylls remark and it's always better to write your own stuff.
Their's nothing wrong with buying the right to post on an article on someone else's blog, with the anchor text pointing back to you. Google frowns upon buying an abundance of links, however, they don't seem to frown on you writing an article and my posting it on my blog. From a practical standpoint, it is explained as cross promoting - taking an ad out in the neighbor's church's bulletin. Additionally, you're adding appropriate context to your link by way of an entire blog post. My suspician is that google is frowning upon buying up 100 links with the same anchor text pointing in your direction. Overall - I like the idea of exchanging blog posts, and I don't hate buying blog posts... Its effective in improving serps and additionally expands your audience.