Comments on: Proof that buying links works

By: Duncan Malloch

Duncan Malloch — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:08:13 +0000

My site Portrait Wedding Photographers suffers from low backlinks, so I have looked at ways of increasing these. Paid link seem to be an easy way out, if you have the money! But it could be risky, as it has been indicated here, Google take a dim view of paid for links. So be careful!

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Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:20:34 +0000

[...] is areas which are often found trying to gain advantage in the search engines by link buying. As Patrick Altoft puts [...]

By: james

james — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:28:35 +0000

Patrick

Looks like ASDA’s link aren’t there anymore…

By: dev

dev — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:32:52 +0000

Ask, Altavista and other giants was beaten by GOOG coz they didnt though about “link as a way to judge the quality of page/site”

at that time link was no business… only geeks appreciating each others work

but to me, its no more good… in each 1000 word article you have 5-10 links where >10 add links surrounding it….

i guess its the time for some researcher to come up with a better solution… may be way to distinguish between contents and ads, which is even harder in AJAX world

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:05:09 +0000

Interesting. The links still pass weight by the looks of it though – probably not for long.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:54:22 +0000

Economist.com is showing PR5 for me! Google reduced already?

By: D-2point0

D-2point0 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:02:16 +0000

I’ve been doing some link building recently and in my quest have been offered quite a few opportunities to buy links. Whilst I know the short term benefit is great I am still wary that â€˜The big Gâ€™ will probably detect that it was a bought link.

I try to remind myself that SEO is a long term arrangement and that genuine links are the best way forward, but it is still tempting!!

Donna Adams

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:10:43 +0000

Do you not think that Google will allow sites that pay for links stay at the top if they are relevant and actually doing some good?

By: The Masked Millionaire

The Masked Millionaire — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:57:49 +0000

Google is too big. It is their right to be big, but I’m getting tired of them.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:48:55 +0000

Google also let some people slide on a multitude of things. I was doing research on Filemaker issues and kept hitting a big name tech online learning website whose name is on a lot of the programming books I have here. Only when I got there, the content I was searching for wasn’t there. Obviously they were using cloaking somehow. Letting the spiders through to the paid content, but not letting visitors see it. I am not sure if that has changed yet. It was a while back.