Will buying Links hurt?

Hi there,

I heard that Google is after the sites who are selling/buying links. If it is true then how to get links for SEO work.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Best Regards
bushib

 

I recently stopped buying links and submitting to directories, just a personal choice, its still beneficial to buy links and do directories as of now.

 

I did hear that Google were giving less importance to links which have been payed for, however they will never hurt your rankings.

Also, I don't particularly see how Google can determine a payed link anyway. Probably best to stay away from Bid for Position directpries etc.

 

It depends, don't buy links on a page where there are a bunch of external links. Buy links from a page that has relevant topic to your site.

 

What Directory_SEO said has a point. Avoid sites that contain too many external links. Google may simply include yours as one of those "unless" links.

 

You could buy links- but try and make them appear as natural as possible.

 

Buying links has been part of the game, and will stil be a big part of SEO for yrs to come.

 

I dont think it is a problem at all at this point.

 

Yeah, I would say buy good relevant links and it should help with your SEO as well as send some quality traffic.

 

no, everybody does it. just don't buy too many at once and try to keep it to related website or categories if buying from directories

 

Everybody buys links out there. Google has recently tried to go against this phenomenon, therefore I would suggest that you take some care, like for instance not publicly telling the site you are buying/selling links for/from.

 

i dont think that it will hurt your web site.

buying links is a part of seo

 

john chow's pages removed from google index because of this reason. I'm confused to buy or not.