Contextual Text Links – In Context Text Links

Since they are a new concept in text link ad buying, I thought I should define ‘contextual text links’ or ‘in context text links’.

These links are standard search engine friendly HTML based links in the middle of relevant content that both human visitors and search engines can follow. When you buy links, the key is to get links that the search engines perceive as ‘natural’ and follow the link to your site and count the link as a vote to your site.

I should also note the services like Kontera or Intellitxt sell JavaScript based contextual ads - not contextual text links. While you may get some clicks, the search engines completely ignore JavaScript contextual ads as paid ads so they will not help your natural search engine rankings.

With the massive explosion in text link advertising sales, Read more

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Wordpress TextAds - A New Way to take Advantage of Link Buyer Ignorance

Wordpress TextAds is a new plug-in that allows Wordpress bloggers to easily sell sponsored links on their website. Good news? Far from it…

Unfortunately this plug-in gives unscrupulous link sellers yet another way to scam link buyers. Come on fellow WordPress bloggers, are you really that money hungry that you would sell worthless links to your advertisers? Wait… don’t answer that.

Take a look at the example below of what will be showing up on blogs that use this plug in:
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Is Selling Text Links Legal?

Believe it or not I hear this question all the time – I think some people think the Google terms of service is the 28th U.S. Constitutional amendment.

Google is all powerful, but I don’t think you need to worry about them raiding your business and shutting down your servers if you make your advertising dollars from a source other then AdSense or spend advertising dollars some other place than AdWords.

So what can Google do to you? Read more

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Text Link Buyer Pagerank Obsession

I often am asked “is it better to get one Pagerank 9 or many Pagerank 5s?” Of course the answer is many Pagerank 5s, but this question illustrates the ridiculous focus that buyers have on Pagerank (PR). Here is my personal formula: Many PR Xs > 1 PR X. You can fill in the PR X with whatever number you want; the answer is the same, Read more

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The Truth On Text Links

Welcome to the new BuySellLinks.com! I have been uniquely involved in text link advertising sales for over 4 years. Over these past few years, I have directly or indirectly touched a large percentage of all text link sales.

I have been behind the curtain and I have experienced what works and what doesn’t. I have seen text link ads that look bad but work great and I have seen text link ads Read more

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Newspaper Text Links

There was a time about 3 years ago when a newspaper text link ad on a site such as http://www.sfgate.com/ would help your link popularity, giving your website a quick boost in the SERPs. Pagerank passing on blocks of sponsored links at the newspaper websites has been stopped long ago, so unless you are hoping for click throughs you are most certainly wasting your money.

Still, newbies continue to buy newspaper website links Read more

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Selling Links

What type of sites are best for link selling?

If you have a site that has a nice pagerank, has been around for 3 or more years and ranks well for several keywords your website is an ideal prospect to sell links. Of course, the higher your pagerank the more you can charge for your links. Sadly, buyers base 90% of what they are willing to pay on pagerank - but give me a nice HTML PR5 contextual text link rather than a oversold PR9 footer text link anyday.

Many sites are strong authority sites in their niche, but really don’t field enough impressions to make decent money with traditional banner ads or JavaScript contextual ads. However, these same sites can make several thousand dollars a year selling links.

I have worked with webmasters that were making nothing off of their websites, and have taken them to $4K -$10K per month in less than a year. Read more

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Buying Links

Buying links to improve your link popularity is not easy work. Sure you could go to a large text link broker and pick from a menu, but chances are that field has been overplowed and most of their sites in inventory are not passing the ‘link love’ you need.

The first mistake webmasters new to link buying make is believing pagerank is the most important website metric. While pagerank is a helpful measurement, remember, you can buy many more ‘under the radar’ cheap pagerank 5 links than overpriced pagerank 9 links.

Purchase Links - 5 Critical Success Factors Read more

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