…today about buying links

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First things first: do not buy links if your website

  • Has poor content (basically nothing to say) and I mean all kinds of content: text and images
  • Has “under construction pages”
  • Has internal linking problems
  • Lacks accessibility and navigability
  • Has a poor Web design

Understand that you don’t really “buy links”, but rent links for limited periods (with or without renewal plans) or for as long as your website and the one posting your paid link are alive.

What links to buy?

Obviously related links. Just remember that you should “look natural” to avoid eventual penalties from Google or other search engines. This SEO technique (link brokerage) was often misused by webmasters to inflate their Google rankings automatically. So you should write different anchor texts for each link you purchase and preferably make your choice based on popularity rather than on PageRank. Because your main purpose with a website is to generate revenue, not to rank high.

Online directories are the best place to start. The most popular Web directory, DMOZ, doesn’t need payments, but it also takes an eternity till you are in. So you have Yahoo! Directory with a $299.00 non refundable annual recurring fee and Best of the Web! with a more interesting offer: $ 69.95 annually or cca $ 200 one time fee as the most reliable directories online.

For high quality, contextual links, I recommend the new wonder: v7 network.