.....forever? So, you buy some links, and it gets you where you want to be in the rankings. Do you need to keep paying for the links forever if you don't want to drop back to where you were? That is, do you have to budget the paid links as an ongoing expense ad infinitum?
you pretty much need to, yes. although once you get some decent PR you could start to sell some links yourself to make a bit of your budget back
If you're goingto pay for links do 2 things. 1. Obviously buy *relevant* links of high PR 2. Undertake a recip linking campaign. The linkage you buy (and subsequent PR) will encourage other wm's to link to you. As other WMs link back to you, you'll be building the base you need. All I can say is don't waste the money on links unless it'll allow you to acquire more links (independant asset accumulation for your site)
Agreed, that's why I only buy and sell long term advertising (l*nks)... 6 months or a year at a time - let's things really take hold, and gives me time to work on other related things.
Good and cheap text links are hard to find, but they're out there The trick is finding the "good" ones - Webmasters/Websites, I mean Don't forget, "invisible/redirect links" and rotating links aren't going to help much (or at all!) with your link pop. and PR - if that's your goal? Cheers, Mike
Depends on the site. I have bought PR6 and PR5 links for $20/month on good relevant sites. I've also bought a good Pr4 link that was $30 lifetime. I've also seen sites that sell P5 links for $400/month. So it really depends on the webmasters. Best sites to guy links from are those that are totally informational sites, as they are trying to eek by and willing to sell a little space for next to nothing just to pay their hosting bills.
my goal is to improve rankings on very competitive terms where, it seems that, in order for me to move up, I need a couple hundred additional links with appropriate anchor text. while I'm also exploring reciprocal linking, it would take me a very long time to acquire that number of links on sites with decent PR and at least somewhat relevant. link purchasing seemed the only realistic way to go, even though our budget is limited.
I dont think google is about "additional links" anymore, I think its about additional domains or IP addresses. Buy links that you may get a few sales from too, so you get twice as much benefit from it. I have a budget of $1000/month for inbound link ads and I'm at about $300 right now, and when I find more relevant sites that don't suck, I'll buy more. I prefer free links, but emailing people begging for a link is pretty degrading and with about a 1-2% response rate its a huge waste of time too.
How relevant does it need to be? We sell a particular type of software (extranet software, used for online collaboration). As you can imagine, there aren't a lot of sites with extremely relevant content that also sell text links. This is also an issue with link exchanges. My solution so far has been to limit my exchanges to other b-to-b sites, particularly software, even when not the specific type we deal with.