How I Got Rich

This would be a really good case study to follow, mate. I’ve not used backlink building services before but I have paid for these backlink packets and I can say that they do seem to work. If you get a good, reliable backlink provider I think it will really make a difference. I know Kirsty over at http://www.affiliatestuff.co.uk seems to recommend ContentNow quite highly.

Definitely keen to see how this turns out for you though and in small niches, you shouldn;t really need that many half-decent backlinks to see some real benefits.

Paid links are only good if they’re relevant. You’d be better off with one good $20 link than 100 social ones.

Put yourself in Google’s shoes – all of a sudden a site with a handful of links gets 100 new ones overnight. Does that look natural?

Link buying must look natural and must be ultra discreet, otherwise G may discount the links or hit you with a short-term penalty.

I spend about an hour a day researching and emailing possible linking partners. The percentages that accept are pretty low but you can pick up a couple of really good links. I also offer to write them an article in exchange for a backlink. What sort of niches do you have sites in. maybe we could swap the odd link?

Can I ask are you registered as a Sole Trader? And do tax returns and stuff?? Just wondering as I am getting into it and wonder when or if I should register as a ST?

Marchamont – “Link buying must look natural and must be ultra discreet, otherwise G may discount the links or hit you with a short-term penalty.”

Thats exactly what happened with one of my sites after I paid for a social bookmarking service, and it wasn’t just a short-term penalty, ended up putting the site under a new domain.

I would cancel the order if I was you, spam links are not at all good! As above have said G knows the difference between good links and 100 rubbish ones.

Like Mac-geek I also had to drop a site as a ‘SEO Agency’ created spam links for me, despite giving me them strict rules on what not to do.

Now I do all SEO in house, takes a lot of time but is worth it.

After all nothing easy is worth doing

@mac-geek
My post was written from experience! I’ve had two sites penalised in the past from using social bookmarking services on wickedfire, but in both cases the penalties only lasted a few months.

Nowadays I use small scale link wheel services (from WF) backed up by a little social bookmarking and that works pretty well.

@Marchamont: where do you buy one good $20 link and what is a link wheel service?

Technically, paying someone to bookmark a site isn’t what is classed as ‘buying backlinks’, it’s more just paying for a service. Buying backlinks is paying for backlinks which aren’t available otherwise, which social bookmarking is.

Also, bookmarking isn’t really a backlink. It’s a good way to get websites and web 2.0 properties indexed and also it can create backlinks if you have a useful site that people will then link to once they have seen you site on the bookmarking site but it’s not really a backlink on it’s own.

I agree that web2.0 and linkwheels will be better for seo than bookmarking alone, take a look through BST on WF and see what is on offer and the kind of reviews it gets.

For my websites which don’t really add any value or are of interest only to customers (99% of affiliate sites) then I tend to stick to links from:

directories
web 2.0
article marketing
blog commenting

I think it is also advisable to test these services on a test site, see what happens, monitor it and if it looks good then use it on your money site.

Plus, you can get social bookmarking a lot cheaper

http://www.wickedfire.com/links-seo/88671-125-bookmarking-site-4-so-cheap-offer.html

Hi,

Please could you email me your contact for the person who you outsourced your content to.

Many Thanks
David

@Marchamont: where do you buy one good $20 link and what is a link wheel service?

wickedfire is the place – but tread carefully, and I’d say only ever go for the very small scale services offered as anything bigger can attract unwanted attention

I like SocialMaximizer for two reasons: Direct editing control over rotating Titles and Descriptions – and control over the PR and knowing knowing and choosing EXACTLY which sites it’ll get submitted to. I just do a small batch of submits to PR 4+ ONLY sites to nail the ones that matter most. I may follow up later with PR3+ batch.

The sad reality tho.. is that NO Social Bookmark will ever get you more than a PR0 backlink 99.99% of the time. The only exception I’ve seen to that is Mister-Wong _might_ yield a PR1-3 if-if-if it grabs a /tag/ with high PR.

Nice information thanks for the help nice website

@mac-geek

Yeah, I once had someone blast out 500 links to what were a mess of Pligg/Scuttle sites and it took 2 years for Goog to let me back in on ANY keywords that mattered. It wasn’t banned, just a minus-50 penalty which was pretty hopeless stuck around Page 5 of serps. I’m glad I kept the domain though. I eventually crawled out of the hole and now am ranking for EXACTLY what I wanted in a Billion dollar niche.