Buy links

[mato]

I know that many of you are against the whole thing with buying links. Your feelings put aside.

Will it be better for my site to buy links or even do link exchange? Haven´t the crawlers been thought by now how to find these untrue links?  I have read somewhere that the stop after 100 links, aren´t they smarter than that?

[mato]

Thanks guys. I started wondering and playing games in my head, because 8 months ago I was in a difficult accident juggernaut to my car and haven´t been able to run my sites since then. Now when I am better I can see that all my sites has gone down in every keyword from top 3 to not even being in the top 50. I thought that my competitors had done something I´ve missed, like bought links. Life is not that easy...right?

[KevinBudzynski]

Agree with Irving--neither. The best rule is to provide great content that you can use link bait.  Google isn't stupid and are quite advanced in spotting unnatural links by many different methods. It is true that you may trick them in the short-term, but this strategy is not a sustainable long-term strategy.

Unfortunately, the best things for websites are sometimes the most difficult to do (such as creating great content).

[irvingw]

Neither. Don't buy links since you don't know how to do it safely. and definitely don't do link exchanges. Either way you will probably get penalized.

Second question is, you can have more than 100 links on a page now, Google will crawl more than they used to in the past. It was a general rule because they had more limited bandwidth to crawl back then it wasn't a matter of being smart or not, now they want to find everything on the web they possibly can.