It depends on the price. Many sites you will have to pay to get your link there and you do so for the traffic. Links are links, it just depends on how valuable that particular link is to you.
In my opinion buying places for adds is a way forward (only if the add is placed on a site in the same niche so the visitators might be intrested in your service). If you want to buy links try to buy from those who won't add the attribute rel="nofollow"!
Keep the links related to your niche, and it's a way forward. Everything in moderation though, you have to appear organic to Google so make sure you diversify your link building strategy and keep things fresh.
True^^ Links must be related to your niche. If it's in your price range and you don't mind spending on this, go for it then.
When you try to buy links, make sure that you buy links on a related niche to yours plus they have good traffic. Too much buy link is not that good because of the new Google algorithm.
Buying link for SEO purposes is not good for google although many people are using this to improve their rankings. If you will buy links for traffic with "nofollow" tag, this is okay. In my experienced, buying links is my fastest way to improve rankings but you should be careful. You have buy link/s that looks natural.
Look Link buying is violation of google terms and condition so if google finds that you purchased links from some where, you website may get penalize. Take great care if you are doing this .
Buying links isnt a bad thing. We buy links from Google for marketing, i dont think anybody got issue with that. However Google sees mass buying links as a bad thing.
If the links are related and aren't so pricey, go for it. But, don't buy too many links, or you'll get penalized.
Buy services, not links. If you buy traffic make sure it comes with a no follow tag. If you buy a link review make sure the site does not sell position or for example, deep links. Those sites are not going to last.
You won't get penalized for buying links. You just want to buy good links and not crappy ones. If you can, buy links from sites that rank high for keywords related to yours. Don't buy them based on PR or because they appear "relevant" or anything like that.
Wrong. There are a few members of this forum who could tell you otherwise. You can and will get busted for buying links. Don't buy PR. Don't pay a premium for position without a no follow. Buy services by all means, not the link. It is a simple rule and one you ignore only if you don't plan on being around for that long.
Have to disagree with you here I'm afraid, and completely disprove your theory, too. I've been interested in SEO for almost five years now and link buying has always been a part of my link development strategy. Keep the links relevant to your own sites niche, and only buy from quality sources with low outbound existing links and you won't go far wrong. Of course, do it in moderation in order to appear as organic as possible, and keep things diverse, look to obtain links using other methods, too. I'm basing that on 5 years experience, and I've never been penalized on any of my sites. Moral of the story is, just don't get carried away and start buying any old links, and you'll be absolutely fine.
Not sure what you mean by buying links. Nor why you would want to buy links. If its traffic you are after, you want a no follow tag. That is because the traffic will dry up when the host site gets penalised for selling links and it is silly to take the chance of getting trashed by the blow back. If on the other hand it is your serp's you are interested in, you want to place your links on sites that will be around for long enough to allow your investment to grow and mature. And if they are selling position there is an odds on chance that they will also get busted eventually. Why go to all that trouble? There are more than enough sites that are playing by the rules. Or are there? It is not so much what you do that gets you into trouble. Its the other guy who goes magoo and you will get nailed by the association. And if you don't believe these purges take place periodically, what is this thread all about?
Normally I have experienced that if you buy links from any regular blog which has PR3-4 or 5, within a 3 months time, the pagerank of such blogs goes down. You dont get any benefits of a link development in purchasing such cheap or crappy auto-blogs. If you are serious to buy some quality one way backlinks for your link building plan, better to get from websites (not blogs) which has more than PR6 and higher. If those sites are Government or National sites, then its far more better, because I have seen these government sites, never loose their pageranks
You are making a big mistake chasing PR. It has no relevance to anyone or anything. If you had said Government sites offer permanence and credibility you would be right. But the reason Google has to periodically introduce purges is because marketing people lose sight of fundamentals and simple resources get turned into a feedlot mentality.