Part of linkbuilding month for beginners At Hobo!

Buying links that are search engine friendly is against Google TOS. If you buy links to take the risk Google will penalise you (from a reduction in your toolbar pagerank, up to removing your site from it’s index).

If buying links was innefective, it wouldn’t be against Google TOS. Think about that.

I can’t remember the last vertical I checked there wasn’t people buying links to improve search engine placement – so the competition is doing it. Last time I checked, they were ranking pretty good.

I can’t advise you to buy links but I can’t honestly advise you not to – although I will point out again Google will take you down if it finds out.

If you are buying links, make sure your links aren’t obviously paid links, though. That is, don’t buy links from obvious places. If Google gets better at detecting these, it’s the obvious paid links that will be hit first.

I can say, I don’t buy links. Not at the moment anyway.

There are still plenty of ways to get links without paying for them: SEE  How I Got 500 Real Backlinks In 2 Minutes for example.

Did you know when you link to a Hobo SEO post we have search engine friendly links back to your site if approved? Our comments are also search engine friendly you know (once you've commented on a few posts)! Do you need any more encouragement to get involved in the conversation ;)