Buying backlinks?

[techgal128]

So, I always see advertisements online to buy backlinks for your site. Can anyone explain to me exactly how this works and if it's really worth the money? When these ads say "buy backlinks on (some crazy number) of sites!" where do these sites come from?

Thanks!

 

[Whogister]

I'm not going to get into the details but just say not to buy backlinks...
It will only hurt your site rather than help it.

 

[Mellisa Smith]

Build links towards your webpage/website through outsourcing services, who will build links for your website/webpage and you have to pay for that is said to be buying backlinks. Advantages and disadvantages of buying backlinks depends on the how they build links for your website/webpage hence perfect selection of outsource
resource is important to get maximum benefits by buying links.

 

[alok897]

To buy paid backlinks for own website is not a good SEO technique and it may be penalized by search engine because, Google does not give preference to site in search engine those are creating paid backlinks.

 

[sijugk]

So, I always see advertisements online to buy backlinks for your site. Can anyone explain to me exactly how this works and if it's really worth the money? When these ads say "buy backlinks on (some crazy number) of sites!" where do these sites come from?

Thanks!

Personally I don't go for paid linking. Also ensure that Google doesn't know about this but it might be difficult to hide this from them because they also see the ads in Internet

The links come from websites who sell links and may not be from same niche of your website. Anyway check the PR of the page from which you ae getting backlinks.

 

[briguy]

So, I always see advertisements online to buy backlinks for your site. Can anyone explain to me exactly how this works and if it's really worth the money? When these ads say "buy backlinks on (some crazy number) of sites!" where do these sites come from?

Thanks!

Depends on what these sites mean by "backlink". On Namepros, there is a http://www.namepros.com/advertising-and-seo-services/ section... now some of these services will submit to your site to directories for you. I do this service every now and then...main reason, the money that I spend, saves me time! Sure takes me a while, to find a directory, write up a "description" and submit, find another directory and do the same process.
You can also get "tweets" for your site/etc

 

[kirangodbole]

Manual link building will be worth than getting paid links or using some tools ...so stay away from these kind of services otherwise your site will be fired out of Google.

 

[Dhanishta]

Buying backlinks is not a good way for SEO.

 

[ProsperU]

stay away from sellers of back links. it's not really worth it because most, if not all, are offering back links that come from spammy sites. this will only hurt your website and your rankings.

 

[blogs200]

Don't Buy Spam Back Links! Better Try to Create With Your Self.

 

[enlytend]

There are some very legitimate, "white hat" and Google friendly ways to buy links. On quality, authority sites. (Not on a Fiverr budget though.)

Hint: This is NOT one of them:

When these ads say "buy backlinks on (some crazy number) of sites!" where do these sites come from?

Those are useless links on the seller's network of crap sites.

 

[Traveler]

Before the Penguin update, buying backlinks worked. Linkwheels, linkpyramids, whatever. Now, even if the person claims it is "white hat", don't bother. Google had to shut the door on that in my opinion for this reason. What would happen is you have 1 site and pay someone to build backlinks. That person would go and create an untold number of pages just to spam that backlink.

So now there are thousands of extra pages google has to index, and they are all crap basically, just worthless internet spam. For the sake of their own servers, trying to index the whole internet, that is a catastrophe. I think that is why they took such a hard stance on spam backlinks. To the point of not only will they not help you, they can hurt you.

One or two quality backlinks from a real site that is related to yours, is worth way more than any of those link building (spam) offers, that will more than likely hurt your rankings rather than help them.

Concentrate on providing quality content consistently and the natural backlinks will follow, without you spending a dime.

 

[mhdoc]

Concentrate on providing quality content consistently and the natural backlinks will follow, without you spending a dime.

I'm not convinced that is universally true. I have a home improvement site which mostly attracts visitors who have acute problem "My drains are backed up!! What do I do?" kind of problem. It has been up since 1998 and has almost no backlinks.

I know because I bought some of those links a few years ago and when G de-indexed the site a while back I got a list of the 5,000+ backlinks they were aware of. What an amazing collection of garbage. I think I found 15 or so to claim as valid on my re-inclusion request.

The site does reasonably well because of long tail searches for keyword phrases for which there is no competition. Of course you have to know the language of the niche to make that work : Plumbing in my case.

 

[Traveler]

I'm not convinced that is universally true.

Nothing is.

It has been up since 1998 and has almost no backlinks.

I know because I bought some of those links a few years ago and when G de-indexed the site a while back I got a list of the 5,000+ backlinks they were aware of. What an amazing collection of garbage. I think I found 15 or so to claim as valid on my re-inclusion request.

I'm confused, you say first it has almost no backlinks and then say it had 5,000+ backlinks. You also say you bought backlinks. I'm guessing the 5000+ backlinks came from you paying for them? Then in the re-inclusion request you went back to almost no backlinks?

Congrats for having a site up since 1998!

 

[weblord]

you can still DIY for free like posting contributions on articles and have your links there, posting on social networks like fb and twitter, directory submission (usually free), posting to forums on appropriate section or posting your link on your forum sig, but don't buy. but you can purchase services if you don't want to do it yourself.

 

[mhdoc]

Nothing is.


I'm confused, you say first it has almost no backlinks and then say it had 5,000+ backlinks. You also say you bought backlinks. I'm guessing the 5000+ backlinks came from you paying for them? Then in the re-inclusion request you went back to almost no backlinks?

Congrats for having a site up since 1998!

Exactly, great fun while it lasted

 

[Traveler]

Exactly, great fun while it lasted

Yeah, that was quick cheap and easy. I got burned as well. Live and learn.

 

[enlytend]

Before the Penguin update, buying backlinks worked. Linkwheels, linkpyramids, whatever. Now, even if the person claims it is "white hat", don't bother.

I'll give you 4 examples of white hat paid links that I was alluding to in my earlier post:

- Sponsor a charity, get listed on their "sponsors" page. Backlink from high authority, high trust flow site. ($100 and up one-time cost)

- Buy a listing in an established, high authority, high trust rank directory. Like the Yahoo directory ( $299/year), There are a few smaller ones that are less pricey, you're more likely to get useful traffic from Y!.

- Buy ad space on a relevant, established authority site or blog. It will be nofollowed, but that's OK - if you choose wisely, the traffic you get will be worth far more than a bunch of crap links.

- Join your local Chamber of Commerce (dues usually $100-$250/yr ). The ones with a clue (not all of them!) have a directory of members with followed links. Again, high authority, high trust AND potentially useful traffic from the link.

Would you really classify these as "don't bother?" If so, I'd like to hear your reasoning...

 

[DU]

I'll give you 4 examples of white hat paid links that I was alluding to in my earlier post:

- Sponsor a charity, get listed on their "sponsors" page. Backlink from high authority, high trust flow site. ($100 and up one-time cost)

- Buy a listing in an established, high authority, high trust rank directory. Like the Yahoo directory ( $299/year), There are a few smaller ones that are less pricey, you're more likely to get useful traffic from Y!.

- Buy ad space on a relevant, established authority site or blog. It will be nofollowed, but that's OK - if you choose wisely, the traffic you get will be worth far more than a bunch of crap links.

- Join your local Chamber of Commerce (dues usually $100-$250/yr ). The ones with a clue (not all of them!) have a directory of members with followed links. Again, high authority, high trust AND potentially useful traffic from the link.

Would you really classify these as "don't bother?" If so, I'd like to hear your reasoning...

Do you ever offer your services for sale on a forum like this?
If you offer services to clients do you take the time to explain your methods?

I would separate professionals from amateurs =)

 

[enlytend]

Do you ever offer your services for sale on a forum like this?

I don't because (no offense to anyone) I don't think it's the right audience. I work mostly with small businesses.

do you take the time to explain your methods?

I explain as much as they want to know. The kind of links I'm talking about definitely need client approval since they're paying for it. And it would be pretty rude of me to sign them up to donate to something that goes against their views.