Link buying is a touchy issue. Google doesn't like it. In fact, they have spent more effort in the last couple of months cracking down on sites that sell and/or buy links.
But link buying works. Not only does it work, but for many webmasters, it works really well. A friend and I bought some links for a site and within a couple of weeks, it was in the top 15 of Google for a very popular two word keyword phrase.
Aaron Wall, a high profile SEO blogger, writes in his post, An Unjust Fear of Link Buying, that if he didn't buy links 5 years ago, he wouldn't be where he is right now. Patrick Altoft, a popular internet marketing blogger, says that to compete in some markets, you need to buy links. He helped a client in a very competitive market get number one rankings in one year by only buying links.
So there can be a lot to gain from buying links. Read the rest of this entry
