For the last 2 months my bosses have had me buying links from blogs, and I have gotten many from the link sales section of this forum, but the blogs are not quality blogs. The posts are not on the subject of the title of the blogs for example if the title is cool cars and the posts are about home moving services, online casinos and vacation planners. Also the people writing these blogs are clearly not native English speakers because the grammar and sentence structure are abysmal, is there any benefit for having a link from these blogs? I feel that these blogs are actually detrimental to our site. I think my company would be better off spending their money and my time on videos and trying to come up with legitimate link bait. What do you think?
I would also like to know about the effect of such links. I have heard inbound links cannot be a cause for penalization. Suppose if I buy a link or two from these blogs (in content blog links). Most of the time these blogs will have good PR. Do you think it will be bad in Google's eyes if we are getting links in blogs set up for such purposes?
According to my experience, there is some short-term positive effect from such links. However, on a long term, within 3-4 months this effect goes back to ZERO, since such blogs get rapidly de-indexed by Google in bulf amounts. So your links are not cached by Google anymore.
Thanks for that advice. How do these sites manage to get high PR. Even when they say the site is about computers I see lots of insurance quotes reviews, and other links there.
i have no idea how they manage to get such good PR but i have recently seen bad sites with no more then 50 back links with pr7's and i bang my head against my desk because i am still struggling to get my site to a pr6
I wouldn't of said so, I've been blogging about comment spam etc. You might find this post helpful: http://www.alex-brooks.com/search-engine-optimiaztion/little-update-on-comment-spam/