Buying Links
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Hello, I have talked to many SEO companies about their services and rates. I noticed that all of them will buy thousands and thousands of links once you first join. That is why they always want a start-up fee, so they can purchase the links.
I know the best method is doing it the ethical hard way of asking sites to link to them, but I dont have time to do that. I mainly want to know where the SEO companies buy their links from. I am figuring that them buying the links are not negatively affecting the sites or they would lose their clients if they got into black hat links. It must be good inorder for them to keep their clients.
I was interested in buying links, but do not know who to trust. Does anyone have a recommendation?
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Thanks Guys for all the advice!
I am now more frightened then ever. But in a good way. I am sceptical that the only best approach is asking other sites to link. I just wonder if that approach if done by these big SEO companies, I doubt they go to each competitor and offer them tons of money for a good backlinks. But I know that is the White Hat approach.....
What else would be good white hat methods to find backlinks that do not take too much time? possible a service?
I am also trying to get my blog up in the ranks too. Maybe its a good idea to play russian roulette with the blog first.
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Not long ago I was standing in your shoes. I did spend some time doing research in hopes of finding someone reliable. I asked the right questions, and recieved the answers I was looking for. Unfortunately, I went forward with the process, turned out poorly for me. The quality was very bad and I feel it definitely did not add value to my website. Would I do it again? Nope........ Thatsj ust my two cents.
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I am figuring that them buying the links are not negatively affecting the sites or they would lose their clients if they got into black hat links. It must be good inorder for them to keep their clients.
I have been watching SEO forums for a long time and can tell you that lots of people arrive there for the first time and post... WAH! My SEO got my site banned! Puleeeezzeee help me! So, they are not all keeping their clients happy.
I was interested in buying links, but do not know who to trust. Does anyone have a recommendation?
I think that you have two risks.... Trust is the one you identified... and.... Under the radar is the one that you need to consider. Anyone who answers your question in an open forum isn't under the radar.
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Hi Ian, I agree with Ryan about the risk involved, but yes, buying links is something that many people do specially in saturated highly competitive markets, so you could pretty much go one of two ways: ask to buy the link directly from the website, when you email someone offering them money, its pretty certain that they will mail you back, this gives you a chance of selecting the best websites to buy the links from and you make a business connection, the other way is buying from a link broker, like these guys textlinkbrokers.com, which i don't really like because the offer the same websites to everyone, they lose value, many of their sites get flagged by Google, i think the risk comes a lot higher with them.
If you plan on buying links, buying them directly from the website is better, find great sites and offer to buy "advertising" in the form of text links on strategic places (like within content), or offer them to buy a guest post with links to your site. Just keep in mind, buying links from good sites is very expensive, you will need a big budget.
There are also some link building services that do it cheap with spam comments, repetitive article submission and so on, you don't want these links, those are low value and could hurt your site.
Once again, buying links is risky, you could get your site (or client's site) penalized or banned from search engines. So here is the disclaimer: do it at your own risk.
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This is always a risky endeavor. It may work in the short term, but for the long haul my money is on the search engines getting better at detecting this sort of thing and ranking sites accordingly.
I realize I'm not specifically answering your question, but I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who will recommend a link buying service on seomoz.
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