Did Matt Cutts Kill the Text Link Business?
Posted on September 7, 2007
Filed Under Text Link Advertising
He tried his scare tactics. Buy links and you will be punished. Many green webmasters have been scared off never to have their websites found because they want to tow the Google company line. However, the SEO experts know no links = no ranking. I have never seen more interest by MAJOR SEOs in buying text links than at the latest SES San Jose Conference.
Countless $5,000 per month plus text link ad deals were cut by the various link brokers at the conference. In fact, I noticed the text link sellers had the deepest lines of interested attendees. Especially hot - Contextual Text Links. If you have them, you can sell them. Footer and sidebar links can be purchase fairly easily, but real links in the content of websites have by far the highest premium with SEOs. Honestly, if I had 1 million quality contextual text links I could have sold them all at SES.
Contextual links, footer, or side bar links - the largest, biggest spending Internet Marketing firms and SEOs wanted them bad. They reminded me of junkies trying to buy drugs for a quick fix.
One thing it did tell me is that Text Link advertising works. The companies I am talked to don’t waste time and money on SEO techniques that don’t work.
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Why SEOs still love links:
Check out these crap links that have boosted this site to the top for terms link promotional items and promotional products
Matt Cutt’s didn’t kill the text link business. He helped start it. I created the Text Link Center system because there wasn’t a single site selling links that were worth buying. Google can detect most paid links. Even Text Link Center can detect almost all paid links.
So, the current big players in the text link ads world are about to be replaced with sites that sell undetecable links that actually work. That’s all.
Brandon Drury
It is a myth that Google can spot paid links. I think they gave up on algorithmically trying to spot paid links because now anything goes. Now they ask for paid link reports.
SEOs are buying more links than ever, any links. TNX.com sells nothing but garbage links but they are incredibly effective. Buy 20,000 Russian links and get vaulted to the top 10.