Comments on: Get 10,500 Links - Only $24.95/month!

By: SEO Expert

SEO Expert — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:18:20 +0000

This is an excellent post, and shows a lot of foresight since the last two Google updates this year directly attacked malicious use of non-contextual spammy link farms. Those that got short term gains for themselves and their clients, paid the dear price in 2007. Kudos for being ahead of the curve.

By: Bestmiler

Bestmiler — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:26:20 +0000

Jim great post. I was actually going to use a program like link-blaster.com/ but then I realized that all the sites I would be linking to were useless. They probably don’t have any backlinks and Googlebot will never crawl them so I immediately took my site down. Thanks for the advice. Now I definitely won’t make this mistake again.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:37:34 +0000

Hey Jim… I’ve been paying close attetion to your link building posts lately, and with that in mind I come across reviewme.com, a site where you can have registered blogs review your site for a fee(raning from $20 to $250). You find a relevant blog, submit your a request for a review, and if the reviewer agrees they have something like 48 our to write your review.

The cool thing is that it’s easy to find relevant blogs to buy a review from, and it basically means you get a blog post dedicated to your site, so the links are pretty organic looking. The only thing is that the reviewer must mention that it’s a sponsored review somewhere in this post.

I bought a review for one of my sites, and was impressed with the setup, but do you think about about the SEO possibilities for this service?

By: John Cammidge

John Cammidge — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:22:06 +0000

I think when people start looking for ways to market on the internet they get tricked into the “great rewards for little effort” approach. Unfortunately people have to learn the hard way.

By: Blackhat links don't last anyway

Blackhat links don't last anyway — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:01:13 +0000

Black hat links don’t last anyway. Though it is amazing where some cheap link spam will put you…

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By: Jenna Ryan

Jenna Ryan — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:49:00 +0000

This is indicative of selling something so complex. People have a hard time grasping what it is we do, especially when they try to understand. I sell to alot of real estate agents and they are so focused on selling homes, they don’t have time to learn SEO. I feel ya here.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:40:56 +0000

Very true! On the other hand, buying bulk links might still work for certain scenarios:

If you are in a niche with relatively low competition and trying to optimize for a SE like MSN (and don’t care about your ranking in Google).

MSN isn’t (yet) very sophisticated in evaluating link profiles and still puts quite a lot of weight on on-page optimization criteria.

However, if you wanna build a business for the long term? Forget about buying bulk links…

Robert

By: Amrit Hallan

Amrit Hallan — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:55:38 +0000

Hi Jim.

It’s amazing how people still fall prey to such spurious online marketing tactics. I remember people used to have or maintain link farms to increase their “link popularity”. I think it is same as setting your own website as you home page to increase hits :-).

By: Christoph C. Cemper

Christoph C. Cemper — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:07:01 +0000

Haha… this was funny… I can image hearing your guy getting his voicer a bit louder… could have been me

cheers, Christoph