Buying links and Google.

I am after traffic, but trust rank has me worried.

[OddDog]

Hi all,

I have a budget to purchase traffic. I do so already from the regular ppc venders.

I am now looking at purchasing links in third party web sites. The is a growing marketplace of sellers of links on there sites.

I am looking to buy traffic interested in my product so the links purchased have to be targetted to that end.

Now to my principal fear. Trust Rank. I have no doubt over googles ability to spot link purchasings. Thats what the no follow tag exists for. So am I forced to solely value link purchasing as a source of traffic and not SERP boosting? As i have stated this is not a pr play. That said any colateral advantage will happily be accepted!.

[idolw]

I'd buy and would not care.
In worst case, they will devualue the links you bought. But the traffic will still be there.

[mm1220]

Presumably it would be better if you bought links from a site on a related topic and even better if the link was blended in to the site's content, in the middle of an article say. This would involve the site compromising its integrity much more so than placing a link to your site highlighted as a "sponsored link", so if you go down that route expect to pay a premium.

[OddDog]

its the trust rank that has me worried. I mean that the sites trustfulness in the eyes of google will be an important variable in serps in the future in my opinion. thats why i am thinking about the no foolow tag adn losing the serp boast.

i have the gut feeling this is the way to go, i mean, it is qualified traffic that i am after, not gaming the serps.

but i hate the idea of losing the boast oportunity.

[rj87uk]

You have got to be mad to add the tag!

The way I see it is - You build websites and buy links to get traffic the side effect of having links from high traffic websites to your own website is ranking well in search engines. Its all good!

[ryan88KM]

Oddog,

There is reason why google asked us to put no follow tag :)) They can't track it :) thats why they scarring us with ....please add the follow tag otherwise you will be penalized :)

If they could track us, they would simply block the links and not way for our respond and cooperation. WE would have no idea they blocked the links so we would not worry and everybody is happy :)

Jeezsss man, think!

[AuthorityDomains]

Hi OddDog,

Yeah, that's the key, that's the best way that buying links will help is by passing on Trust points.

We have a couple of articles on that on our site if you want to check it out, about how trust rank and buying link need to go hand in hand.

The thing with trust rank is that you have to identify sites that already have trust points in Google, or sites that are closely linked with sites that have trust points. There are ways of identifying these sites.

If the sites are related, then you are also hitting some other component of the algo such as local rank.

The ideal scenario is to get all three: sites that are trusted, related, and will send traffic.

[Valleycommando]

I would buy the links,
and get rid of the no follow.

I would also have a backup URL with a
few good links pointing to it if you
have other sites.

So if the ballon does go up and there
is a MICK update based in TR,
then you have a backup.

A backup career would also be advantageous!