Best Places to Buy Links
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It’s no secret that the right links will help you achieve those oh-so-desirable top positions in the search engine result pages. More traffic means more leads, more sales or more Adsense™ clicks, whatever floats your boat.
There are dozens of ways to get links. Some of them are more labour intensive than others. Relevant links from respected high PR sites are the most difficult to come by.
An easy way to generate these links is to buy them. Trouble is, not all of these backlink vendors are created equal. Many are expensive and lots are outright scammers, preying on the ill-informed and ignorant webmasters that don’t know any better.
Here are some of the most important factors to look at when buying a link:
• Link relevance: is the content of the site and page where you are buying the link relevant to your site?
• What is the PR of the page on which your link will be placed?
• How many other outbound links will be on the same page?
• Will this link have a rel=”nofollow” attached to it?
• Is the link placed by a script that can be readily recognized by search engines and therefore discounted and potentially sending a penalty your way?
• Other factors come into play but these are the most important
Some link vendors should be avoided like the plague, notably because their links are of very low quality and/or the links are placed by scripts hosted on the domains themselves and the Search Engines recognize this script as a link exchange from a mile away.
Others are just plain scammy, offering you hundreds of links for only $24.95 or such figures. The saddest thing is that these seem to be very popular.
A quick search on G for “buy text links” will bring up some of the more notorious players and some of these less savory ones, particularly as advertisers. Several are entirely worthless and potentially damageable to your site.
This is not a cheap keyword and you can be certain these shady companies are raking in some pretty “good business”.
But enough about them. Here are the best places to buy links, in no particular order since they serve different purposes.
Text Link Ads:
This is one of the 2 most popular places to buy links. They offer a wide database of targeted sites on which to place your links. Each of these sites has a rudimentary analysis provided so you know what you are buying.
One of the aspects that has made them so popular is their great introductory offer.
Get $100 free on your purchase of $100 or more. Essentially your first $100 dollars of links are free, no strings attached. As you can imagine, this is a high converting offer and their affiliate program is very popular amongst affiliates.
I would suggest it as your introduction to link buying since you can break yourself in at no cost.
Text Link Brokers:
Somewhat reminiscent of Text Link Ads, this company offers a similar service with a slightly more in depth analysis of sites to buy links from.Wide selection and professionalism are the order of the day. One thing that makes them stand out is their ability to provide you with a pre-sell page, complete with high PR, relevancy and authority, a powerful asset for affiliates and SEO types alike.Text Link Brokers
Authority Domains:
This is a lesser known company that operates on a slightly different principle. Instead of buying links individually, you buy them in bunches.
Although I haven’t tried this service, they are softly recommended by David Naylor, once of the most prominent SEOs on the planet.
Here is one of their best offers: buy 10 links for $10 dollars a piece. The links will be on relevant sites with PR of 2 or above. Here’s the strong point: if you stay on for the next month, you keep the first 10 links from the first month and get 10 new links each month until you discontinue the service. That means if you stay on for one year, your site will have garnered 120 links, some of which will by then be 11 months old.
Can be a pretty sweet deal.
4th Media:
A lesser know service that provides bulk link purchases. These links come at a cost of $8 a piece on PR 2 to 4 sites with a minimum buy of 50 links. Discounts apply on bulk purchases. Links are permanent.
You can use as many different keywords, URLs and anchor texts as wanted for those 50 links, which can make this an interesting purchase.
Online Marketing Today:
Good for bulk links. These are largely untargeted but they have decent PR. You can use as many URLs or anchor texts as you please.
Monthly service: $700 for 500 links, or $1000 for 1000 links. Strong option if you have lots of sites or pages in need of PR.
Ebay:
Yup, that’s right, you can buy links on Ebay. You probably won’t find links as tightly targeted as what you might want, but they will be cheaper on an individual basis.
Have a semi-spammy site you want to point a PR 5 link at for about 5 bucks? This is the way to go. Watch out for sketchy vendors and enjoy the great finds for cheap one way backlinks.
Remember, not all these links are created equal. The more relevant to your site the better they are since they can also end up sending you considerable targeted traffic.
Also, don’t just go and buy links for the heck of it. If you’re paying good money to boost your rankings, make sure you have a solid sales funnel or monetization strategy in place to make your investment pay off…
Have I missed any sources or anything else? Leave a comment.
on April 9th, 2007 at 5:46 pm ¶
I’ve been trying CyberlinksPro, which was a resource mentioned in the Rich Jerk. Ever tried them?
on April 9th, 2007 at 9:28 pm ¶
Hi Rian,
It looks pretty much like low grade link farm links to me. Have you had any success with it?
on April 10th, 2007 at 4:55 am ¶
not yet….hard to say really. I didnt want to get say 1000 links at once…so Ive been adding a few a day. the site came highly recommended by the rich jerk, which couldve been a purposeful bad recommendation…i dont know. too early to tell if its crap or not in terms of effect.
on April 10th, 2007 at 5:00 am ¶
The Rich Jerk had some good recommendations and some awful ones. I wouldn’t test these links on my main site, if it is a link farm (which I’m almost sure it is), it will damage your site’s link reputation for months to come.
Do keep me informed how it goes though.
on April 10th, 2007 at 5:33 am ¶
luckily its not on my main site…wasn’t brave enough to try that.