I am in the process of actively seeking incoming links. Its a challenge though because I sell a commercial product. Increasingly I am getting sites that would consider placing a link but they are asking for compensation ($). That sounds all well and good to me, I want the traffic. This is, after all business. But at the same time I want the 'credit' from Google for incoming links so that I get better SERP for my products (don't we all). My questions. 1.If the link is placed as a pay per click through a third party, does Google see that and do they negate or discount it as a valid backlink. 2. If I pay the sending site using a trackable link (which is available to me as a Yahoo stores), again, can Google see it, and do they discount it?
A couple of suggestions: 1) I am tired (maybe that's why) but i find your font size too large of main content 2) Since you are a business, you should have a place where you buy materials. If they have a website, how about making an agreement to provide a link each other websites?
if the links go through a 'script' like Adense or Adbrite, Google will not spider that link and give you credit for the link. But if the link is a straight hardlink with good anchor text, it will get spidered. make sure you have good keywords in your anchor text.
Be careful about buying text links. Google says it can detect paid for links and will penalize you for buying them. Most likely it will do this by detecting people selling links and penalizing both their site and every site they link to.
It is my understanding that google does not penalize for buying links. Instead, they just detect them and don't allow the links to help the receiving site. There have been some cases of site that are actively "selling pagerank" that have been banned, but I am not aware of sites that receive links getting in trouble. For the record, I have not bought any links myself, except for some sponsored listings on a few directories.
Probably not, but maybe if it on some high profile high pr site unrelated site, where it look like you bought the link for pr. Like redirect link?, no, it worthless in the engines, at least its supposedly is
I agree that this is probably what occurs. The key thing is to only buy links on related sites where you are likely to get traffic as well. If you are on a related site then it will be hard for google to spot whether its a paid for link or not. I think that if your link is spotted as being an advert on a related site then you will get credit for it. If you have a tiny text link on a PR8 site going to your PR3 site then its fairly easy to spot it as being a paid for link.
The best incoming link strategy is to ofeer some kind of free service or tool. Some thing that make s the people say, "oh wow, isn't that neat". then they'll teel thier friends, put links to it on there blogs and websites, and then you can watch your rankings climb from genuine links.
the best backlinks I've found so far are the anchor text links I've posted in article directors for my site.