Banned From Google For Buying Links

[mark135]

Ok so this hasn't happened to me yet. I am in a very competetive niche and looking at my competitors links they are obviously paying for them (pr4+ pages with the anchor text they want)

if they aren't paying they are doing some serious a$$ kissing to get them LOL.

but my question here is does anyone else here buy high pr links and worse has anyone ever been penalised because of it?

[kkchoon]

I really don't think Google will know that.

If buying links will get someone banned, I will buy some links to my competitors' sites and sandbox all of them

[mark135]

i agree that it would be very difficult for google to find out, especially if you email webmasters personally and negotiate a deal

i wouldn't trust services like rekli or cyberlinkpro however because it wouldn't be very hard at all for google to figure these kind of links out

[Mike Linley]

I would be very careful with buying links..I know people who have gotten penalized for buying links...google can manually find out if you have and if you get found out you will be penalized big time...just be careful if you choose to go that route.

[JohnPark]

I don't see how Google could know if you bought a link from an individual company or a person, but if you go through a service there is possibly a way for them to find out. It usually happens when you or the service puts too many HR Links on your site at one time. If you're site is say a PR0 or PR1 and suddenly you start placing HR links to your site, it's going to set off a red flag.

[dburk]

Hi mark135,

I have bought paid links on high traffic websites for years. I have never been penalized and I intend on continuing to buy links whenever they make since. In fact, Google is one of my primary sources for paid links.

However, I never buy links for PR value. Most link brokers base the value of paid links on PR or Alexa ranking and you are probably getting ripped off if you select your links based that criteria.

Most of the traffic you get from a quality link is the direct targeted traffic, not search engine traffic, that is just the icing on the cake.

My advice to you is to completely ignore PR and Alexa rankings when buying links. Those factor are easily often manipulated to inflate the price of the link. Choose links on pages with highly target traffic and base you price on the amount of targeted traffic.

[InternetMarketingIQ]

And how is Google going to find out? Only if some wanna be competitor wants to play internet police and report you. But how do they prove it? If you don't think that businesses are buying links for rank then you re in the wrong business.

Nearly every major corporation with a site is paying some SEO company to buy their rank. And that company is going to do whatever it takes to make it work and keep the clients.

Google is after all nothing more than a site that scrapes and organizes content then sells links. Hypocrites?

[askloz]

not as difficult as it looks, it only takes one person to find a site that sells the links, and add them into the database at google to devalue the site.

as they say, "where there is a will, there is a way"

Originally Posted by mark135

i agree that it would be very difficult for google to find out, especially if you email webmasters personally and negotiate a deal

i wouldn't trust services like rekli or cyberlinkpro however because it wouldn't be very hard at all for google to figure these kind of links out

[mark135]

Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ

And how is Google going to find out? Only if some wanna be competitor wants to play internet police and report you. But how do they prove it? If you don't think that businesses are buying links for rank then you re in the wrong business.

Nearly every major corporation with a site is paying some SEO company to buy their rank. And that company is going to do whatever it takes to make it work and keep the clients.

Google is after all nothing more than a site that scrapes and organizes content then sells links. Hypocrites?

couldn't agree more it's definatley time for me to step things up to the next level and start buying some decent links

ive come to the conclusion it's impossible to rank for the profitable terms without doing so

[dburk]

Google is after all nothing more than a site that scrapes and organizes content then sells links. Hypocrites?

Hi InternetMarketingIQ,

Yes, Google sells links, that is their primary business model. They have nothing against anyone buying and selling links, they are not hypocritically in that regard.

They do object to people trying to sell PageRank. PageRank is merit based, it is earned and never sold by Google. To protect the integrity of PageRank Google actively defends the non-commercial application of PageRank.

You can openly sell all the links you want, without the threat of penalty from Google, provided you add the nofollow attribute to those links. Buying and selling links for traffic, no problem, selling links for PR will get your pages de-indexed.