I think the statement that Google is watching us is a bit over dramatic. Think of how many millions of sites there are out there building even more millions of links every day. G doesn't have the time and the resources to home in on you and "watch" you. Maybe they'll do a few manual reviews now and again, but it's just a case of learning how not to trip their filters and which type of links bring success and which don't. G handles these things algorithmically, so they are good at spotting patterns and devalueing certain types of links. Many paid links do get devalued - the trick is to pay for links on sites that don't *look* like they are selling links. Simple litmus test - just look at any website and ask yourself whether you think they are selling links. If so, you might be wasting your money. If not, you're golden.
I'm sorry to say but the problem is little experience in SEO. Not all links are useful and not all links work immediately after being indexed.
thanks for the warning. If you really want a good ranking site, web masters must do things naturally and slowly. I mean anyone will be suspicious if a new site suddenly got XXXXXXX backlinks.
thats right, google is smart enough to monitor what you did extremely, but we maybe find some tips avoid its monitoring,after all, its machine not like human being
It may take years for your backlinks to increase your SERPS. Patience my friend. Google is watching almost everything on the internet.
Good to know. Thanks a lot for the article. I never bought links before and now I have even less of a reason to do it.
Actually there is nothing bad buying links. I even believe that it will help your site a lot provided that the links are natural and high quality.
Little experience in SEO - I have probably forget more than YOU know! Go tout your crappy links on someone elses thread....
I doubt that Google can penalise you for this - it would be a short way to end up with your competition.
I really don't know what you're getting at. Your evidence seems to point at Google not reporting all of your links outside of Webmaster Tools. The more domains your links are from, the better you'll be. I don't think Google really "knows" if you use link buying, unless you buy from a flagged or banned site. It's mostly that sites with a lot of outgoing links will pass on less value and many links from the same domain will also pass on less value. You basically just want to get as many links from as many domains as possible. Keep doing that and you'll eventually move up in Google.