Link Buying – An Important Thing To Know

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Sunday, October 18, 2009 Comments (8)

Gab Goldenberg has an interesting post on 101 ways to buy text links.

Understand that I don’t endorse any of these methods. It is your decision as to whether or not to purchase text links. You know how Google treats those links. Of course, what Google doesn’t know wont hurt you. But will you take a chance?

In fact, here is exactly what Google has to say about link buying and paid link:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66736

The fact is, link building is link building. You can do it the organic way or buy your links and the effect, from a search engine optimization standpoint, is the same. With one proviso: It is done the right way. But buying text links is fraught with its dangers. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it, however. But it doesn’t mean you should.

Still, if you’re going to buy text links then there is one very important thing to keep in mind. It’s more important than everything else. And I don’t mean the fact that Google frowns upon it. The one thing that you must keep in mind if you are going to buy text links is this: Be discreet. Getting caught could be costly – more costly than the price of your links. It would behoove you to do it with sites you can afford to lose. But above all, don’t broadcast it.

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Made Wednesday, 25 of November , 2009 at 10:59 am

There is also a rumour that Google have 1000+ employees sat in a call centre in India somewhere who’s sole purpose is to look for pail links – how they would do this is anyone’s guess, but I have read stories about those who had a paid link in some text – then it gets found out! How would that happen? How could one paid link in a lot of text be found out as having been paid for?

I am unsure if there is any truth in this, but I tend to err on the side of caution!

Andy

Comment by Nick Stamoulis

Made Wednesday, 25 of November , 2009 at 11:04 am

Thanks for sharing that rumor Andy…I have not heard this one…

Comment by ChrisSeo

Made Wednesday, 25 of November , 2009 at 11:23 am

I never heard of this one either.

Google doesn’t need thousands of employees, all it needs and all it has is a team of SEO specialists and an algorithm.
Can’t wait for the Caffeine shakedown ^^

No matter how discreet you are, if you buy links and you know nothing about SEO, you will get caught, 100 links with the same anchor text WILL get you penalized.

Comment by Nick Stamoulis

Made Wednesday, 25 of November , 2009 at 11:37 am

Hi ChrisSEO,

I agree I am looking forward to Google Caffeine as well.

Very true about the anchor text. As I mentioned, I do not approve of paid links but the choice is left up to people to decide if they want to run the risk.

Comment by Andy @ iNET SEO

Made Wednesday, 25 of November , 2009 at 3:20 pm

Sorry I just noticed my typo – of course I meant “paid links” not “pail links”

Comment by Nick Stamoulis

Made Wednesday, 25 of November , 2009 at 3:33 pm

Thanks Andy, I knew what you meant! Take Care!

Comment by srinath

Made Saturday, 19 of December , 2009 at 9:50 pm

Great insight Nick,

I just checked out the site. the list is really huge. I don’t think, I will apply some of those methods as you suggest.

Thanks

Srinath

Comment by Nick Stamoulis

Made Monday, 21 of December , 2009 at 6:59 am

Hi Srinath,
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts!