Link Seller Menu
Posted on August 23, 2010
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I recently contacted a link seller through a forum who sounded like he was selling some decent links. I asked him if he could tell me more about the sites where he was selling links. Since we never did business before and he had no clue who I was I expected to get a general description of some of his link opportunities. To my surprise, not only did he give me the URL of the site I was most interested in, he gave me a list of 20+ URLs where he was selling links.
I immediately messaged him and told him I was not interested without looking at one of his sites.
Why would I do this? Well, the way I look at it is if he is sending me a listing of all his publisher sites, how many other people have gotten this list and how many times has his list been forwarded on to Google’s Paid Link report? If your looking to buy links from a stranger it is a major red flag if the they freely give their publisher list out to strangers. A pro link broker would expect payment before showing you any links if he/she does not know who you are and has never done business with you.
Why would you pay before seeing your link location? Because this tells you that the Broker cares about the privacy of their advertisers and publishers. Also, prepaying carries very little risk because a legit broker would refund if you were not happy once seeing link. Even if they refuse a refund, all you need to do is file a credit card or paypal dispute to get your money back. It amazes me that some advertisers won’t risk paying $50 for a link sight unseen, but they will buy links from stranger that gives them a link menu which effectively puts their entire business and livelihood at risk.
I guess stupid link buyers and stupid link sellers pairing up will just continue to help cull the herd of stupid webmasters leaving more money on the table for those who know what they are doing.
–Jazz
Contextual Links
Posted on August 11, 2010
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For years my clients and I have had great success with links in content or contextual links. Unfortunately, getting these links are often the hardest links to get. It’s easy to get a link in someone’s footer or side bar, but convincing them to add you link in some pre-existing text is a whole different story. About the only short cut out there to high quality contextual links is at a site called inLinks.
At inLinks, all you need to do is pick your keywords and search their database and presto – for a price – you have a nice contextual link point at your site. This is so much better then being in a huge list with other paid links. It is safer and much more powerful. Give it a try and let me know how much your rankings improve.
Another way to get contextual links is to search on your keyword phrase with quotes. Go 30 or 40 spots down the Google results and start contacting webmasters asking them if they will make that keyword phrase a link to your website. Contextual links really work, but it takes lots of work to get them. Many people go the article site way but I have noticed that article site links are pretty much ignored by Google. Your site will never rank well with just article site links. So if you use article sites, getting your articles to rank and drive traffic to your site is the name of the game.
—Jazz
Relevant Text Links are Not Relevant to your Site’s Success
Posted on July 15, 2010
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I am getting reports of great results from several SEOs that link relevancy has not mattered much with google for the last year or so. Many SEOs are taking advantage and buying links on whatever site that will sell them and making a bundle in the process.
This strikes me as odd as I would think google would be getting better and not worse in determining the relevancy of a paid link. I would recommend that if you have a chance at gaining a few nice links that are totally unrelated to your site don’t turn them down. Take advantage of this situation while it lasts. However, don?t go overboard so your site stays afloat if google ever can figure out that a dog food link on an ipod site is not a good fit.
The one exception is if you have a throw away site you want to get ranked fast and make a quick buck while the getting is good. In this case, point boatloads of whatever links you can get at the best price. Just don’t complain when your money machine gets shut down. Eventually, I would think, google will figure things out when it comes to link relevancy.
–Jazz
Google Ban is Over!
Posted on August 28, 2009
Filed Under Google | 2 Comments
It took months and months but I have been released from the google dog house. I’ll see if things remain good then start letting the cat out of the bag again.
Google PageRank Update was a Non-Event
Posted on October 29, 2007
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After this PageRank update was finished, sites that dropped one point in PageRank basically stayed the same. All that Google did was turn the PageRank meter up a bit driving the average PageRank down by one point across the web. So a PR7 has the same value as a PR8 one week ago. Read more
Masive Link Packages Rocking in Google
Posted on October 15, 2007
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Everyday I study the Google SERPs and continue to be happily amazed. I find it ironic that for all the tough paid link talk, Google seems to love crappy paid links more than ever. Link buyers with new sites that bought those 1,000 -10,000 non relevant link packages over the past 6 months are happy as pigs in slop as many are ranking with the big boys now.
Normally turnover on these packages is fairly high as new webmasters give up after three or four months without measurable results. Now that they are killing the SERPs non-renewals are almost non-existent over the past 4 months.
Still, I have to think this complete loss of the ability to manage link spam is a temporary Google glitch (one that can make someone several thousand dollars in the right niche). It is also a great opportunity for those that have 100,000s of links to sell because SEOs are buying up as many links as possible for their clients.
It’s funny, I’ll see an SEO preach about buying high quality relevant links and they are the first ones to buy up all the garbage links – I think they know what I am seeing and don’t want to let the cat out of the bag. Let the competitors run scared while they slash and burn.
But stubbornly I stick to my mantra (for now) – Buy links in the existing content of relevant websites.
Now Is Your Chance to Buy High PR Links Cheap
Posted on October 10, 2007
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Several reports have come in over the last few days of PR9 and PR8 websites that sell paid links having their PR downgraded by one point. While Google is still running its “I love all backlinks algorithm“, if you are a buyer, this is your chance to get on a high powered site at a deeply discounted rate. PR9s that were selling at ~$1000 per month a week ago can now be had for ~$300 per month. It doesn’t get much better than that.
If your site is already ranking well, I do not recommend buying and footer or sidebar links whatever the pagerank, but if your site is in Google never-never land, one of these links could pop it into the realm of real SERPs. If the affected high pagerank website still ranks the same, a PR9 a week ago is still a PR9, even if Google shaved a point off of visible PR to hurt the sellers pocket books and give squirrelly buyers and sellers a scare.
Take stock of what you have to gain or lose and make your best decision based on where your site stands. This is a low risk, high reward opportunity for those smart enough to take advantage.
10 Ways Google Can Spot Paid Links
Posted on October 8, 2007
Filed Under Google, Worthless Text Links | 3 Comments
With all of their spidering and datacenter power, it should be very easy for Google to spot paid links. However, they continue to give top 10 rankings to sites having nothing but obvious paid backlinks.
To make things easy for Google engineers, I have created a top 10 list on how to spot paid links. Read more
An Example of Where Not to Buy Links
Posted on October 6, 2007
Filed Under Stupid Bloggers, Worthless Text Links | 2 Comments
Money hungry bloggers never cease to amaze me. Here you have another blog bragging about selling text links and advertising just about every link program under the sun. Do link buyers on John Chow’s blog really think that his links have any value other than putting money in his pocket? The saddest part is what he is making is not even worth bragging about 
Please, link buyers use your common sense, don’t buy links from a site like his, at best you are flushing money down the toilet, at worst you risk being labeled as a text link buyer.
Buyers – if you want to save money and get actual results use the Jazz Link Buy Rule: Purchase links in the existing content of great websites related to your site that don’t look like (or advertise) they sell links. Buyer wins, seller wins.
Text-Link-Ads Banned by Google
Posted on October 1, 2007
Filed Under Google, Text Link Advertising | 6 Comments
Yes, I know this is old news. However what is a bit strange is that everyone in the SEO community knows about it but very few have written about what happened and why. The question that lingers is why was Text-Link-Ads banned (or perhaps penalized)? Why was one of the original text link brokerages banned by Google while others were untouched? At SES, there were two theories floating around: Read more