Comments on: Link buying in competitive industries

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:49:53 +0000

If you look at the big boys you can see evidence of link buying and it does seem to work, but not only do you have to think if the risk is worth it but is the amount you have to pay for them worth it? You are not going to get an instant boost with the 1 link so prepare to dig deep, and then if you get caught prepare to get the drain ready because that is where your money is going to end up going.

By: Tripti

Tripti — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:21:12 +0000

Fake link bait ….sounds good .I never heard this term before .Now i really eagar to see the outcome of this practice.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:33:42 +0000

In the bingo space the top 2 sites (Dream and Foxy) in google are fairly new in the market and have been aggressively link buying through little text ads here and there. They've shot up the rankings for Bingo and "online bingo" (the only anchor text they're using) which seems to point in the direction that link buying still works.

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Link Building this Week (08.2008) | Wiep.net — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:00:10 +0000

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By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:21:05 +0000

Keyword in domain name is the way to do it. If your company was called “Cheap Loans Inc”, and people linked to you with that text, then Google couldn’t say that was particularly spammy as it’s your company name.

The fact that it has “Loans” in it means you’ll eventually start working your way up the ranking for that term.

By: Chetan

Chetan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:11:13 +0000

Fake linkbait ha ha.. A good trick there to be a bit out of suspicion and also to get some good buzz all around.
Btw not sure about how frequently the report on links in posts is seen, but i think google is devalueing footer links pretty well, one of the common ones is sponsored wordpress themes.

By: Tom Beaton

Tom Beaton — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:40:48 +0000

Buying paid links is gaming the system. The problem is that someone will always do it, so you probably have to do it too in order to keep competitive. Where does it end?

By: Matt Ridout

Matt Ridout — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:53:42 +0000

I agree with Stephen, it’s a nice change.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:25:52 +0000

It’s good to find someone who hasn’t totally thrown paid links in the waste basket. I still think they are worthwhile and maybe with the current Google scare, even more so, because it should cause prices to drop a bit.
I have only started in the link buying game, but I have done reciprocal links in the past a lot for a multitude of sites. I find that a gradual backlink increase works wonders. A few this month, a few more the next. Buy links to specific pages and never just the homepage. We’ll see how it works out.