Comments on: On Buying Text Link Ads

By: uzman seo

uzman seo — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:42:08 +0000

Hello Stuart,

i red your article this is so nice but i am confused about link buying factors. I am wondering that which factor is the best for buying text links in your opinion. Alexa? Domain age? Page rank? Indexed Page from google? or Backlink quantity of site? Victory of the site on that keyword which i am thinking to buy? Would you please line them up?

By: MergeMedia

MergeMedia — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:32:00 +0000

As long as they’re from relevant sites and directories, go for it!

check out http://text-links.us/

By: Bihar

Bihar — Fri, 11 May 2007 06:28:47 +0000

not sure what g&y have to say about buying links. if the sites are realted then it might be worth considering. blindly buying it for the sake of seo may not be a good idea.

By: David

David — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:25:16 +0000

Something related but not exactly the same is buying links on StumbleUpon.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/ads/

We’ve done a few campaigns with moderate success, will likely purchase in the future. Something to check out.

David
http://www.techdeals.net

By: blogtech

blogtech — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:05:13 +0000

well i don’t have money to buy links, i have adsense but for god sake
i dont earn anything at this moment. Im curious about adwords , but most most related sites where involved in adwords has eliminating countries, in short its not global, that is why i cant sign i to their forms because our country is not included.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:07:32 +0000

Google takes so long to update the backlinks that by the time the links have any effect on your SEO other links will have boosted the site alot anyhow… unless your getting ads from relevent sites who’s traffic is moving on to you I don’t see much point in buying links.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:25:41 +0000

Only Google knows if its a good value or not. Many have had good succes with text link ads, but it depends on how you buy them.

By: JMR

JMR — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:13:59 +0000

Hi there,

when I first started my new blog, I bought a good few text links from various companies, however I would much prefer to wait until google decides to spider my site properly (or whatever it’s called). I found that the text ads, were ok, but very expensive, and as I am on a budget, i only invest in them a bit. then i read somewhere that google frowns on them. It’s hard to know what to do. For now I just keep on blogging!

P.S i have found this site an invaluable resource, I can see why it is so popular.!

Cheers

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By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:07:47 +0000

It’s interesting to see how the actual links from some of these programs are tucked into the already very busy layouts of the sites selling them. Certainly the only benefit is a potential PR increase (not that that isn’t significant mind you). I can’t imagine ever finding, much less clicking one of these links.

By: Marc James

Marc James — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:44:55 +0000

I run a fairly large and high-ranking content site and have to say that the text links keep things afloat and are really a large portion of my revenue. How can I turn down thousands of dollars a month for a few links? Doesn’t take any effort on my part and I can stick to providing the high-quality content that Google loves.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 11:07:03 +0000

Paul

I’m sorry but I’ve been up since 1am and my brain is just about mush so if I ask an obvious question, or one that you’ve already answered, I hope you’ll forgive me.

But what is your motive for buying incoming links?

Is it to gain traffic from those sites or to ensure that your site becomes more attractive to Googlebot and gets spidered more frequently?

If it’s the last option then all you have to do is post your website URL in posts in places like this and you’ll get spidered regularly.

During the last week I re-invented a fairly dead site into the blog that you will see at the other end of my name and since I’ve posted here, and in other places, and included my URL the site has been hit by Googlebot on a daily basis.

And that that’s something that will happen just about anywhere you may post that allows you to include your URL and doesn’t shut out the spiders.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:23:20 +0000

I found my info at http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/link-popularity/

Darrens site has about 360000 and thoughs two sites have around 900000 and 2700000.

I don’t want to get penalized by google? it is a little confusing what path to take, on one hand you have sites that have alot of links from natural growth and on the other hand you have sites that pop out of know where that buy links. which path should one take?

I really don’t know how google could crack down on the buying link stratgery without effecting other sites that have links from natural growth, how is google suppose to determine what are buyed links and what are not.

Regards Paul

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:52:44 +0000

You raise an interesting point Paul but if you care to compare the first site you mentioned and Darren’s site in Alexa you will see some interesting figures.

Now I know that Alexa is not the be all and end all of statistics but it does look interesting when you see Darren’s site that, according to Darren, has no purchased text links compared with a site that you suggest invests quite a bit in purchased text links.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:25:46 +0000

Hi,

Checkthese sites http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com and http://www.digitaladvisor.com out they buy links from sites all over the web and they get very good positions in google , they have millions on links on yahoo.com. Should we follow there footsteps or is this consider spam? they have links on Gizmodo.com as well

Regards Paul

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 07:01:00 +0000

I too tend to agree Darren. I’m sure I read somewhere recently that purchased links were being devalued by Google. I’ve just been trying to find where I read it but it now eludes me.

I find it interesting that people suggest buying text links when there are obviously some better ways to achieve the same goal. I have yet to see a black hat SEO buy a link anywhere and there are quite legitimate ways of achieving what they do – although a perhaps a little slower – without going over to the dark side.

Personally I think good anchor text is a very good way to go to impress search engines and there are some other good ideas that have been posted here and elsewhere.

A long term strategy is far more important that a quick boost from a paid link that comes and then fades away. Unfortunately a long term strategy is not very appealing to a lot of people.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 06:31:44 +0000

I tend to agree Darren [Hope you're feeling better today!]. My attitude is that if I am doing a good job, then the links will happen naturally.

One tip though, if you are going to buy links, before you do, make sure that the conversion rate of your website is as high as it can be. More traffic is often seen as the answer for every website’s problems, but I see a lot of sites that leave a lot of money on the table from their current traffic, just because the owner hasn’t fine-tuned the site’s conversion mechanisms.
Experimentation and measurement are the primary tools of success on the web.