Comments on: How To Buy Links And Avoid Google Detection

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:44:45 +0000

Buying links is something I have not done for several years and to be honest never got any benefit from it (bad choices on my part).
However we all know even the big boys do it and it is a bit unfair on those trying to do things in an ethical way.

However there can be a win win in this situation. Just because someone receives payment does not mean they are not offering a quality experience for their visitors.

So for me, this will work if the link is relevent (mentioned above) but also adds value to that site (even though a payment has been made).

If the paid outgoing link adds value to the site, why would google want to punish it? I doubt it would.

Still not buying links though. (just in case).

By: A French

A French — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:59:16 +0000

Patience is important, but I think that persistence and variety are king. It is important to dilute so that you do not have an unreasonable concentration on one type of inbound link. I believe that if you combine the suggestions in this article with a combination of reciprocal linking, content generation for other sites such as articles, targeted sponsorship, etc etc, then none of them will be so concentrated as to be flagged in the algorithm.

While, all of this has to be over a period of time, it is OK to have bursts where you have multiple high ranking inbound links. The key is whether these links persist. If they do, then you are on your way to PR5+.

By: Matt Brown

Matt Brown — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:00:35 +0000

When building links i think it is important to have a mix. Whether the link is from another site (exchanged/bought, high-ranking/low-ranking), blog, forum, directory, article or press release the most important is that they are relevant to your site.

It is also important to focus not on just one keyword but spread it across a range of phrases. This is especially true when buying links from high-ranking authority sites such as in your example. Suddenly having links from 20 PR7 sites will just appear unnatural to the search engines.

As we all know SEO is a long but satisfying process. Patience is king!

By: CarstenCumbrowski

CarstenCumbrowski — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:31:21 +0000

Sounds like work that adds value for anybody interested in the subject to me. Getting paid for providing value is the only right thing to do, regardless how this compensation looks in detail.

Bills don’t pay itself. If you work and spend time on something, you need to paid or you can “move” to the streets one day and beg for food.

By: Jan Hvizdak

Jan Hvizdak — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:13:35 +0000

I’m not sure there is a big difference between paid and natural link. Of course, paid links usually come from high PR pages, but PR doesn’t mean anything important at times. I haven’t bought any link ever and even though my primary site’s traffic trends are unbelievable.

I am in a business partnership with one site devoted to cars. Unlike me, he has bought some links on PR3-PR4 pages. However, his traffic from Google didn’t come throughout a night. It was a continuous process which continues nowadays too.

Also, I’m not sure about a penalty given to a new site, since you’re not responsible for that who links to you. I wouldn’t trust so-called experts speaking about penalties, questionable techniques or even ‘unbelievable stories’.

What I can tell you is that 1 link doesn’t mean anything. 10 links don’t mean anything. 100 links are taken seriously a bit. But what you really need are links to internal pages from forums, related sites, enthusiastics webmasters and so on. And you can’t get them without any unique content.

Don’t re-write other’s pages, write new content. You can get inspired by others, but you shouldn’t copy&re-write. I found this technique to be useless for SERP.

By: mad4

mad4 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:35:53 +0000

One of the best ways to get links is to write a unique article and pay a webmaster to publish it. Even Google can’t frown on this.