Buying Links?
May 7 2009 Categorized Under: Backlinks No Commented
Speaking of Affiliate Summit conferences, there was this one dude I heard at the 2007 Vegas event that made an impression. I wasn’t really all that interested in SEO at the time because it takes time and work and I am lazy.
Let me rephrase that. It’s not really that I’m lazy. I don’t mind working my ass off, I just like to see an immediate reward for all my hard work. ‘Pay Per Click’ let me do that easily. I could create a new campaign, have it running in an hour, then test it the next day. It’s easy to keep track of your efforts of ver the span of a few days or a couple of weeks. The idea of having to wait months for the search engines to index your site and update didn’t appeal to me at all.
Nevertheless, I attended a presentation by a guy named Wil Reynolds called ‘Debunking SEO Myths‘. Now, this guy was not a great speaker. He was terrible actually. Sheepishly, ackwardly he stumbled through his presentation, but something about it stuck with me. He was basically repeating the same line: “The best way to improve your search engine rankings was to create quality, original content that others would want to link to and repost.” But he added, “…while you’re waiting for your efforts to take effect, the fastest way to get your listings up there is to BUY LINKS.”
Now this I found interesting. Maybe Search Engine Optimization wasn’t so long and boring after all! Maybe you could really make an impact in SEO if you treated it like PPC. Maybe, just maybe, you could get instant results. This was something I had to try.
But I’m lazy, remember? I want to find one place for all my link-buying. I don’t want to have to spend hours compiling lists of sites to buy links from that may or may not improve my rankings, then spend days finding contact information for all of those sites, then contacting and negotiating a price for each link. I want it. I want it now.
So, now I’m trying to figure out what happens when you buy links from sites like text-link-ads.com. Do you get penalized? I don’t know yet. I’m experimenting. Will let you know soon…
