I was wondering if anyone here has seen SEO benefits from buying blogposts from the members here on DP. If you look at the blogs from the majority of people selling blog posts, they seem to have around 80% paid reviews, and very little, if any, real content. So my question is, how beneficial is it to buy blog posts from blogs that have mostly reviews?
There are lots of beneficial if you buy blog post. First if the link to your site is dofollow then you can get one nice backlink from that page, second you can get some visitors to your site if your post published on high traffic blog. Thirdly as I know that link within the content is much more valuable than link on sidebar or footer section.
It is difficult to second guess what the search engines are thinking. A good rule of thumb however is to ask yourself, How easy is it to get that link? Generally the more coveted the link the more beneficial it is. If everyone can get a link from a specific site it is devalued. This does not mean that all blog posts are lower value, just the ones that link out to lots of unrelated sites. Think laser focus and on topic.
We really can't tell, only Google can evaluate the quality of those links for ranking purposes but if it's really coming from a bad neighborhood, Google might disregard those links for SEO. Paid reviews are not just for SEO but for direct traffic as well specially if it's coming from a high PR blog and who has amassed a lot of subscribers and readers.