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admin
01-25-2007, 12:56 PM
You have probably heard about text link brokers... we have warned about buying links in the past.

Yesterday, Matt Cutts of Google took a rare shot at a company called V7N with his post on undetectable spam (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/undetectable-spam/). Matt rarely says anything specific about a company or organization. When he does and names the company, there is so much to learn by analyzing the company's services and offerings.

This is bad for the V7N company because noone in their right might will use their services now.

His post says alot about buying links. When a company charges as little as $10 a link, you can imagine how this type of service could be abused.

Our take on this: You should NEVER buy links in high volume from any service. It's easily detectable and asking for a penalty. Google has always rewarded good ol' fashioned link exchange when it benefits the end user and when it occurs at natural to low volume. That will never change because it's what makes the web a web.

Don't make the same mistakes these people did who used this junk service. Do not buy links. When Cutts makes specific posts such as this, it's undeniable "proof" that buying links is bad.

The Old Sarge
01-26-2007, 11:10 AM
How does this apply, if at all, to selling ads with links in them?

We are in the design stage of an information-type site that will depend on advertising to stay online. Our plan is (was?) to sell ads to businesses and include links to them in the ads.

admin
01-26-2007, 07:29 PM
When buying and selling links, relevancy is key. Keep volume low or "natural".

For more information on why urge caution when buying or selling links, see http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/text-links-and-pagerank.

As long as you maintain relevancy for the end user, you should not have any problems.

The Old Sarge
01-27-2007, 11:16 AM
Thanks, admin. I guess the old saying is appropriate ...

If it walks like a link farm and quacks like a link farm ... it's a duck. I mean a link farm.

Vibes63
10-03-2007, 07:34 PM
Yah, I don't believe in paying for a free services. I think that its better to be slow and steady then adding too fast. Also, you do not really know if there is a source that is generating you great volume. In the end it could hurt you because the traffic of SE is far greater than any other source.