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I am sick of trying to get a solid link for my site, my site is in an ok position where perhaps I can invest....
the company i have has great reviews, but i do not want to risk the future of my site, so perhaps it works today for these folks, but then Google catches it...
anyway, it is a company with a bunch of directories on a bunch of different IP's and C classes,
they get you a solid relevant link by putting a link for there site in one of thier directories, which probably most sites are in, if most sites do a full directory submission for thier site...
a good idea? I think so, i mean every site is in the top directories, so I feel it creates a bit of a cloud mor smoke screen, but at the same time I wonder if it may be caught as 3 way linking or such...
Thoughts on this idea? any other ideas how to inexpensivley purchase links?
TIA!
For related industries, look for blogs of support personel in your industry. Say you're in real estate - real estate agents is the natural. But so would contractors with blogs (they fix up real estate). Or mortgage underwriters. And so on.
Perhaps it's just me, but I wouldn't do what you're suggesting. Buying links from a tightly controlled network is a recipe for disaster; networks are easily detected I believe. For example, you don't have to just worry about just the links you're getting, but the backlinks of the sites that are linking to you. If someone owns a bunch of related sites that they're using primarily for link sales, chances are good that many of their sites are somehow related (i.e. as they build backlinks to these various sites, they likely use the same places for all their sites).
I think cherry picking individual link buys can be a great idea because you can determine quality ahead of time - and find areas that none of your competitors have tapped. I work in a competitive field where link development is tired and worn out, yet I found an entire swath of sites, blogs, and news sites from a very closely related niche that nobody was touching - great fodder for developing links. But buying links in bulk like that - the pointy heads at the search engines are likely to be ahead of you on that game.
Alternatively, put together some raw data in your industry. To use the real estate example, perhaps gathering data of average sales prices of homes in an area, correlated with inflation or something. Do the work to put those numbers together and publish them on your site and again you've got something you can use to develop links even in the same old worn out places.
Do the usual things like comment on other's blogs, add popular bloggers to your blogroll, publish good content on your blog about your products and how they stand up to use etc. It can be almost like writing a case study about your product. But you can also use it to talk about your company that makes people involved in your industry feel a sense of ownership in it the same way celebrities give people a sense of ownership because they know something about their lives. These are very general comments and your situation may have different angles to play. I encourage you to look for those. Very often, for many niches, there is a blog community formed around it. Try to find it.
I use the exact same phrase. Yes, mine their blogroll and their backlinks.
(no facts to back me up on this, that's just my opinion on how I'd approach this).
