Text Link Buying and Selling - Tell me everything

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My company is going to buy text links on high PR sites. Whats are some of the larger companies that do this?

Also when I saw what was being paid per month it peaqued my interest! How can I make money by selling links on my personal blogs?

P.S. How about selling contextual links in blog posts? Or writing specific posts for cash. What sites pay for this sort of thing?
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Gosse
    If you are buying for linkback purposes be careful. I got google slapped for that
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  • Profile picture of the author Derek S
    Don't let people put the fear of Google into ya! Buying links comes with a lot of myths and most of it is Google spreading them in their own best interest, not yours.

    Hey Brad (I'm from waterloo!): The only way I see google slapped you for this is if the links you purchased happened to be on really bad spam sites and a few of them easily form a pattern/red flag with google. Sites designed only to buy and sell links were common years ago but now they stick out like a sore thumb with google.

    Buying links on a site with rich content that is about the visitors experience and do not have the sole purpose to sell links, will almost never get you slapped.

    The only way if your links were on legit sites, is if someone ratted you out to google and this was 1 out of 100,000 times google actually did something about it. If it was really that easy you could just buy a link to your competitors site and rat them out POOF! one less competitor haha!


    MeghanK: You kidding?! Text Link Ads (TextLinkAds | The Leader in Text Link Search Engine Optimization) makes a killing doing this. Sure they have got banned a little while back from google but their clients sure haven't. It is a big business and there are lots out there promoting this openly.

    Buy links on pages that have high PR and under 100 links total. The only bad thing that will happen to you, I Promise, is that if google does start to think you might have paid for a link...

    The most they will do is devalue that link and you will go on paying for it and have no idea that its really not helping you.

    The best bet is buying links on sites related to your niche or target market. This way even if google does devalue that link... Any traffic it brings you from clicks will be targeted and could convert.

    Hope that helps and all the best
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  • Profile picture of the author Caleb Spilchen
    A word of warning, no matter what the guy above said.

    Google has said out-loud that selling links/buying links based on pagerank is not allowed, and that they will get sites that do it. So if you start buying links on sites that are advertising themselves as high pr. You may find out these sites will become, no longer high pr.
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    • Profile picture of the author Derek S
      Google says this for THEIR best interest Not yours. If you pick good quality sites this is called advertising and google can not possibly know your intentions are for obtaining PR. Google wants people not to do this because it is a flaw in their algorithm that they simply can not effectively monitor. So they put "the fear of google" into you so you wont do it.

      If you follow Matt Cutts at all (google him if you don't know who i'm talking about, he IS google when it comes to this kind of stuff) he is the one who mostly gives out this information first and others spread the word and it becomes more and more written in stone in peoples minds.

      What google tells you to do is in googles best interest. If you assume that googles best interests are your own... you are neglecting your own sites interests (ranking #1) and will never get the #1 spot for your broad keyword phrase... with a few exceptions like Wikipedia (who I am currently towering over in my broad keyword ranking lol)

      This is just my opinion. I speak from my own personal experience and success as well as seeing others success first hand.
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      • Profile picture of the author thomasr
        Yes buying text links was sooo 5 years ago.....well guess what it STILL IS CURRENT and many large companies still do this!

        In fact some of the major players in the Auto industry purchase links. And whats more is that they rank very well!

        You cannot take everything Google says to heart....they are a business bottom line. They want to make money any way possible.

        So by purchasing text links from a 3rd party...they are not getting a piece of that...they would rather you pay for rankings via PPC or SEM.

        A text link is in the same ballpark as a banner ad...and everyone buys banner ads right?
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  • Profile picture of the author derekwong28
    I know a link broker well and you will be shocked at his client list. It is basically a who is who of the biggest 500 sites on the Internet. As to date, there is very little evidence that Google penalizes link buyers. If so, a competitor can simply buy links to your site in order to get it penalized. If you sell links, it is a different matter though and Google may well penalize your site if you are found out.

    I am totally convinced that buying links is the "real secret" to making it big on SERPS.
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    • Profile picture of the author thomasr
      Originally Posted by derekwong28 View Post

      As to date, there is very little evidence that Google penalizes link buyers. If so, a competitor can simply buy links to your site in order to get it penalized.
      Great point! If you could get banned by buying links you could screw your competition. This is the same with duplicate content. There is no penalty!

      REminds me of a blog I owned that had a PR of 3. Well I had a ton of outbound dofollow links to my clients and the page rank was stripped from this site.

      Once I removed the links, I applied for a reinclusion and in a month or two everything was restored.
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