02-19-2006, 01:19 PM
Quote:Buying text links. It's all the rage.
Is it evil? Is it good? Will it help your search engine rankings? Will it get you banned? Will it increase your PageRank? Will it increase your link popularity? Will it bring targeted traffic to your site? Should you do it? Should you hire a broker to do it?...
It's not a matter of *if* this will happen with paid text link ads, but *when*... Regardless of when the engines decide to lower the boom, you can bet we're going to hear a lot of crying in the forums about it! For now, if you're buying text link ads, or have been thinking about it, I wouldn't really worry about it. Just make a mental note to yourself that whatever boost to your rankings they may provide now could vanish at any time. It's no big deal if you're getting real traffic from your ads, or if you're simply using them to jumpstart your SEO campaign. It's going to be a problem only if your livelihood depends on buying or selling text link ads to boost link popularity.
full article: http://www.searchengineguide.com/whalen/...8_jw1.html
related topic: Monetizing Your Site or Blog with TextLinkAds, Improving Advertisers' SERPs http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...669.0.html