Buying Blogroll Links is Stupid

[mandy]

2 articles on the new paid links Blogrolled.com service

There are several problems with buying blogrolls links, the first is the fact it is incredibly shortsighted. If you have to buy your way onto somebodys blogroll doesn’t that say something about the quality of your site? Perhaps investing the time into creating a site that can get blogroll links on it’s own merit would be a better idea.

Also if you are thinking that commercial sites can hide their links away in blogrolls and not get caught then you don’t give Google enough credit...

full article: http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/why-buying-bl...is-stupid/

A new service just came online that will allow you to make money with your blogroll. Blogrolled.com is a similar service to Text Link Ads. However, they’re selling links in the blogroll to cloak the fact that they are paid links.

The blogroll is a place normally reserved for bloggers to link to other bloggers. Blogroll links are full follow links which mean they carry link juice and help with moving up in the search results. While Google has been cracking down on paid links, they’ve so far left the blogroll alone because the links on there are generally related to the blog topic and not paid. Blogrolled.com aims to take advantage of this fact to make money...

full article: http://www.johnchow.com/make-money-onlin...-blogroll/