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06-05-07

Todd Friesen Says It’s OK To Buy Links

I am going to give a full recap on SMX in the next couple of days, but I wanted to share something really quick that Todd Friesen (Director of SEO for Range Online) said in a “Better Ways” conference session (referring to link building) that he buys links. There you have it. A featured speaker at SMX and “SEO Guru” telling all of us to “buy links”. (He did freak out and wonder if Matt was it the room because he knew all of his clients, and that was funny)

Please don’t get me wrong, he did not say just go and buy every link you can get your hands on, but the words about buying links did come out of his mouth. Keep it relevant, and find links that would bring in targeted customers (if they clicked). As far as I am concerned - discussion over, go and buy some relevant links!

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Posted in Link Building // (6 Comments) +
Zohaib, June 12th, 2007 at 10:14 am

I am not in favour of buying links after reading following article

http://www.stonetemple.com/blog/?p=167

I think that Google is preparing to take sever measures against those who are selling and buying links both. Lets see what happens.

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Suchmaschinenoptimierung, June 14th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

Can somebody tell me where i can get a „realtime“ backlink check for free for the SEO Results?
I have the problem that every backlink checker in the Search Engines gives a different result – sometimes more than 500 + or -.
Do you also know which is the best backlinck checker in web for an SEO beginner?
Thank you for your answer and greetings.

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Gary Pollock, August 31st, 2008 at 5:09 am

I would just like to say that as much as Google claims to be “against” buying links they really only encourage this practice.

Just look how things are with them. I could put together one BS page and buy up a bunch of higer PR links and within hours to days I can get a number one rank. If they’re really so concerned why don’t they change their algorithm?

Also linking just helps them crawl the web faster from having to use a brute force approach. Additionally, there have been many testimonials of Google completely ignoring nofollow tags and crawling and indexing “blocked” pages. Why would they do this…?

Personally, I think there’s more to what Google says on the face value level.

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Outsourcing, September 21st, 2008 at 5:48 pm

It is true that Google claims to be “against” buying links. Google always prefer one way link exchange instead of reciprocal.

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link optimization, November 14th, 2008 at 8:30 pm

If its for the improvement of link statistics, why not? Besides, buying links from a very credible website would boost your ranking as well.

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Philip Kaie, July 28th, 2010 at 9:27 am

I would do this as well, if I could afford this.
But how do you find a credible website that trades links for money?

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