the niche i'm dealing with I deal with is very competitive and the PPC prices might be a little too high for me at the moment. after reading quite a lot of articles and ebooks and what not, I can truly and honestly say that i have almost no idea what I should do. since the budget is quite slim and there is so much work to do, i wonder what I should do next, buy get some articles posted and/or buy links from high ranked pages. I understand that the link buying is not the perfect solution and only temporary, it appears to be working for so many people (otherwise there wouldn't be so many sellers, right?) is it possible to buy edu/gov links at all? is it considered to be a bad SEO method?