My advice is pretty well simple:
Hire an seo expert, they know what they are doing.

Just search for an seo expert in your town.. Google it :)

Just kidding… Good luck purchasing links and I really hope that you will success, even with out any help :)

im looking into buying some text links, and i wanna make sure what im paying is well worth for the links: any advice.

second can anyone advise on a good website with a good text link calculator.

best regards

louis

http://www.providentestate.com

I didn’t complete the form when I didn’t see a button, which I didn’t realize.

A couple blogs were automatically approved. :-] I was very encouraged by that form, he he.

2: Could you give advice on a blog by blog basis on whether to join (or stick with) AdBrite or whether to apply for this? I’m afraid of being rejected.

So this tells me Google doesn’t really like people selling text ads unless the site is something like engadget or some other big site.

Matt Cutts writes:

A natural question is: what is Google’s current approach to link buying? Of course our link-weighting algorithms are the first line of defense, but it’s difficult to catch every problem case in adversarial information retrieval, so we also look for problems and leaks in different semi-automatic ways. Reputable sites that sell links won’t have their search engine rankings or PageRank penalized–a search for [daily cal] would still return dailycal.org. However, link-selling sites can lose their ability to give reputation (e.g. PageRank and anchortext).

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/text-links-and-pagerank/

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no wonder people say AOL paid 25 million for engadget

A.H

As for how they value the links, I would think they have a demand quotient for each category of blog. Rough and ready maybe, but unless they had an auction like Google, it’s hard to see how else they could do it.