Buying Links & Avoiding Penalties - Me & Jason Calacanis

http://www.thinkseer.com/ Well the BIG topic - buying links to help boost your SEO rankings, let me say again...if you properly analyze your landscape you can determine if you may or may not need to buy links. If you do, you should buy ones that are actually on GOOD sites - while producing great content is the ideal, you may have to prime the pump a bit with a few strategic bought links. This is an advanced tactic, if you don't understand what makes a good vs. bad link, don't buy one!

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[wilreynolds]

Pretty easy you would think, but then again they are a heck of a lot better than MSN and Yahoo right?

[s2ew]

It's refreshing to find an SEO specialist with some actual knowledge. Google is FAR more likely to penalize a seller of links. A buyer of links would have to be very excessive before Google would impose a penalty beyond just discounting the incoming link. Otherwise I could just buy links to my competition and then report the activity to Google. Why on earth would Google impose a penalty to the buyer beyond discounting the value of the link? I could also be buying a link for traffic & not PR.

[wilreynolds]

s2ew - Thanks, your ending note is one that I need to touch on more frequently...some text links whether they are followed or not, can drive great traffic regardless of the PR boost.

Thanks!

[dannbkk]

You got to give my thumbs up to this guy for having enough guts to tell people the sad truth. Paid links are what drive your site to the top and build authority with of course alot of other natural inks built in with it. Point Blank!

[wilreynolds]

dannbkk, so many people just say build great content, while that is critical, you still need to promote it in every way possible. Iam not talking about massive link buys, I am talking about doing just enough to give you a running start while the great content naturally starts to build inbound links.

[wilreynolds]

Buying links lost doesn't = a bad user experience. If you buy a bunch of links for your iphone skin site and you sell iphone skins, I don't see that as a bad thing entirely, while you are working on higher quality links. Where I do see that as a MAJOR problem is when you start ranking well and targeting words like iPhone cradle when you only offer skins...that has a negative impact on the user experience. Thanks for dropping the comment.

[breaker787]

Matt Cutts said that who want to buy links for traffic or advertising and not for a PR increase he has to buy nofollowed links, and it's ok for Google then.

[JeffSMills]

I agree. Google sucks at link analysis. How easy would it be for Google to analyze historical linking trends?