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$50 for a link in guest post

by Liarspoker
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Before I heard about Google's stance on guest posts I send of a few emails asking or a guest post with back links.

I received a reply today that they are charging $50 per link!

I thought the way it worked was that that you wrote an article giving them fresh content whilst giving them a break from writing in exchange for a link. I guess I was wrong!

Would such a price be standard practise for giving out link?

The site that is charging for the link has around 22K back links though I can't find an alexa ranking for it.

Edit: I just spotted that 95% of traffic comes from India and the email I received is not written by an english speaking person. Hhhmm.
#$50 #guest #link #post
  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    Originally Posted by Liarspoker View Post

    Before I heard about Google's stance on guest posts I send of a few emails asking or a guest post with back links.

    I received a reply today that they are charging $50 per link!

    I thought the way it worked was that that you wrote an article giving them fresh content whilst giving them a break from writing in exchange for a link. I guess I was wrong!

    Would such a price be standard practise for giving out link?

    The site that is charging for the link has around 22K back links though I can't find an alexa ranking for it.

    Edit: I just spotted that 95% of traffic comes from India and the email I received is not written by an english speaking person. Hhhmm.
    What correlation does PR have to Racism exactly?
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    • Profile picture of the author jzabel
      Racism really? It has nothing to do with race, it is just a proven fact that a lot of spam and unsafe traffic comes from India. It is about keeping your self and your website safe. And by the way i think $50 for a link in a guest post is insane. Ultimately it is all about PR and potential traffic received. The site would have to be a heavy hitter for me to shell out that much. I would say $1.00-$5.00 a link is more reasonable.
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      • Profile picture of the author Liarspoker
        Originally Posted by jzabel View Post

        Racism really? It has nothing to do with race, it is just a proven fact that a lot of spam and unsafe traffic comes from India. It is about keeping your self and your website safe. And by the way i think $50 for a link in a guest post is insane. Ultimately it is all about PR and potential traffic received. The site would have to be a heavy hitter for me to shell out that much. I would say $1.00-$5.00 a link is more reasonable.
        I agree. I did not intent to start a discussion about racism rather like jzabel said it's about spam and unsafe traffic. I also agree that $1-$5 per link is more realistic.

        Please don't wrong racism into this as the world is a bad enough place without it.
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        • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
          Originally Posted by jzabel View Post

          Racism really? It has nothing to do with race, it is just a proven fact that a lot of spam and unsafe traffic comes from India.
          Racism really,
          Please forgive me for not just taking your word alone for it, but cant you give me some credible citations to the studies that have proven the "Fact" that a lot of spam and unsafe traffic comes from India? Your ignorance is bliss.

          Originally Posted by Liarspoker View Post

          I agree. I did not intent to start a discussion about racism rather like jzabel said it's about spam and unsafe traffic.
          SEO has really only become popular in India over the last say 3 years. I am yet to meet anyone professionally who I would class as a problem webspammer from India. While the US and Russian bozy have been spamming for decades. I know a bunch of them, that build more spammy links each day than the population of India.

          You researched and found this site in question, you approached them asking to guest post. You mean nothing to them, so why would they not charge you a bundle. If they value their domain, they can charge what they like. Only you have the data to work out if the deal will give you an adequate ROI. How can we tell you anything when we don't know anything. Other than Alexa, whoever she is.

          Or maybe this is what happened.

          The owner of the website woke up to find some randomly sent spam guest post request in his email box. He has never heard of this guy and never heard of his website. Heck he even thought to himself, "This guy doesn't even know that I'm Indian. He didn't even take the time to socially engineer me and he clearly doesn't give a crap about adding anything of value to me or my site. I'm just going to tell him $50 to squeeze what I can out of him".
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          • Profile picture of the author Liarspoker
            No. The site said that they accept guest posts and it has a couple of guest posts on their blog. So while my mail probably wasn't expected it certainly wasn't spam.

            I think the mods can close this thread now.
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          • Profile picture of the author jzabel
            The "Fact" that i am basing my statement off of is appnexus. I had a website that i was publishing their ads on and they blacklisted my website. When i ask why i had been blacklisted they told me that there was malicious traffic coming to my site from a few countries Pakistan, China, India, Indonesia, there were a few others that i can not remember. It is up to each individual on what you do with your site. I just know that on a monetized site that the big ad networks do not like particular countries traffic.
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            • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
              Originally Posted by jzabel View Post

              The "Fact" that i am basing my statement off of is appnexus. I had a website that i was publishing their ads on and they blacklisted my website. When i ask why i had been blacklisted they told me that there was malicious traffic coming to my site from a few countries Pakistan, China, India, Indonesia, there were a few others that i can not remember. It is up to each individual on what you do with your site. I just know that on a monetized site that the big ad networks do not like particular countries traffic.
              And tell me, do you really think that this mysterious "malicious traffic" actually comes from the "malicious" persons home IP address? Only someone without a clue of any real "facts" would miss the obvious oversight. The only thing those countries are guilty of is poor IP regulations.

              How exactly you where picking up such traffic to begin with is another question. But Anyhow.
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  • Profile picture of the author AmanD
    It's their site, they can charge what they want. And yes, there are plenty of sites that will charge you for you to post a guest post on their site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kiwigal
    A lot of people now outsource SEO to India, (I for one). I find I get more bang for my buck outsourcing of shore and an excellent quality of service.
    I don't believe anything the op had to say was racist (very strong word) I think his statement if anything was naive.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Fact is that India traffic is very low quality traffic that hardly converts.

      Ever did a paid campaign at DigitalPoint? If so you know what I mean.

      As for getting blaclisted due to poor traffic, I read that many product launchers in the WSO affiliate section don't accept people that drive a lot of poor traffic as it brings their eCPC down, maybe that's the case with OP as well in one way or another.
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