Lots of paid links all at once. could it harm me?

I'm getting links from 30,000 pages.. is google going to beat me down?!

[Onders]

I have a bit of a dilemma - have been offered some great advertising potential by putting a banner link to my site from approximately 65 educational establishments, and all the pages within the sites (total - 30,000!). Since this is the market we are actively targetting this could be really good for us with respect to brand awareness and actual referrals/click throughs. The problem I am envisaging is Google - we are very highly ranked at the moment but will 30,000 extra links (all at once!) from 65 sites be punishable?! Does anyone have any thoughts about whether Google will just ignore them or knock my website down a few notches?! As they are paid links can Google differentiate between these and normal ones and if so... am I possibly going to be in trouble?
Any thoughts welcomed!

[Frequent]

Yes it is certainly chancey with regards to the engines. However, if those links you are buying can delivered more targetted traffic than Google I say go for it.

Look at it this way. Right now G$ is ranking you well and sending good traffic. You are lucky. It could be gone tomorrow for no reason.

When it comes to paid advertising you are in control of your own destiny. The bad side is you are paying... but if ROI is good you should be able to keep paying to maintain and grow your traffic regardless of the engines.

Google understands that any aggressive company with sense is going to buy advertising on other sites. If you are really concerned just make sure the links you are buying are "nofollow".

Freq---

[Onders]

thanks for that freq - maybe the best thing would be to have the top level links (will all be from PR5 pages) as normal links and all the internal ones (30,000 odd) as no follow. Think Google will be better with that?

[martinibuster]

Think Google will be better with that?

Not anymore. Googlers read here and they probably already know what network you're talking about.

[Frequent]

Just have them all set to nofollow if you want to play safe IMO.

Do not buy links like these in hopes of picking up PR. If you are going to buy links on a network like this buy them for the traffic. If the traffic isn't of sufficient quality to give you good ROI then don't spend the money.

I'd spend $100 to advertise on a great focused niche site for one week before I spent $100 for 10,000 links on a junk network for a month. Especially if you run adsense.

With most sites and networks selling cheap traffic you get exactly what you pay for.

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