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Jan302010

Buying Sites Vs Buying Links

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What are the pros and cons of buying sites verse buying links for SEO?

Well first of all most big websites out there these days have hundreds of mini sites or sites that they have established that are relevant and link to their main site. This is good if the sites that are linking in are from different ip addresses as it tells the search engines that they are not necessarily from the same owner.

Others say that buying links would save you the hassle of registering new sites and be just as effective. There are 2 sides to the coin. The 1st thing is when buying links it does not ensure you a permanent 1 way link. It might be good for some time, but at the end of the day you are not benefiting from it long term. Sure it can help getting a link from a site that has high page rank that you are looking for, but too much of link buying can also send off alarm bells to Google.

It is not against Googles terms to buy links but it is to sell links based on page rank, and it is against Googles terms to buy links specifically to gain page rank. So nevertheless, I encourage you to believe it is beneficial to do both. Although link buying can be time consuming and expensive to find the sites you want links on, so can building sites, but long term this is the key.

When you buy or develop a site to link to your main site, there are certainly other factors to consider such as the age of the domain you have bought or registered, the relevancy of the domain or site, is it being updated frequently, does the site have backlinks or page rank as well and does it have alot of cached and index pages.

Many site owners think they can just build 100 sites and link to their main site and think they can gain loads of traffic. Wrong, the problem is they don’t realise is it is those sites itself that need to also have alot of backlnks and page rank.
This tells Google that the sites that are linking into the main site have some authority.

So the big question is what works best for you, and do you consider buying sites or buying links to be more effective?

Oct162009

10 Creative Ways to Get Millions of Backlinks

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1. Be a web development company and when you build sites for your clients put your link in the footer of the site with an embedded link pointing back to your site. As the clients pages and content grow so does your links.

2. Design your own free Wordpress theme, or open source programs for users to download with your link copyright encrypted inside the footer.

3. Offer a submission service site for example Katz downloads but require the site owner to have to place your link before you accept their submission.

4. Design a widget that users can embed on their site for example an alexa toolbar which shows your sites stats publicly. You can design one of your own widgets that you think users would like related to your site.

5. Run your own video or image hosting website, when images are uploaded to websites the links or videos are usually set to point to the site where they were from.

6. Set up a bookmarking type of site and offer your snippet to be accepted in ShareThis.com. If they accept your submission you will have millions of users bookmarking your site through your own bookmark site.

7. Run an affiliate program having your banner placed on other websites pointing to your site. Offer a huge range of banners in your program in many different shapes and sizes to choose.

8. Offer a kind of award program that users feel proud to add to their site if they are one of the top performers they can show this badge off.

9. Set up your own advertising site for example like buysellads.com or text-link-ads.com make users display the banner or link “advertise here” pointing to your main advertising site, so even if the space hasn’t been filled you get a backlink in the meantime.

10. Offer a SSL certificate program something similar to Verisign for shopping or ecommerce sites that show buyers that your site is secure, by getting verified users to place this button on their site will gain in huge back link exposure.

All though all these 10 ways cover most niches, you may have a site that does not fit into those suggestions listed. Therefore It is up to you to utilize your creative thinking and this will in turn allow your users to naturally add your link gaining you high exposure, more authority and higher traffic to your site. Good Luck!