Buying links

 As promised yesterday I did a quick research about link selling/buying so that people who are not familiar with the subject get some idea of current prices, what things you should avoid and what things you should look for.

To do a research I went to one of my favorite forums, Digital Point Forums, and looked around link selling section picking couple of most recent link offers, pretty random if you ask me.

So here they are, I will explain more below.

PR

Type of link

Price

7

Site wide

25$ per month

6

Homepage

25$ per month

5

Site wide

50$ permanent

5

Homepage

30$ per month (high traffic)

5

Site wide

10$ per month

4

Site wide

15$ permanent

4

Homepage

5$ per month

0 -> 4

Homepage

5$ permanent

To explain things a little bit. First column shows the PR (Page Rank) of a link. Second column describes the type of a link, is it site wide (a link across the whole site) or just a single link on a homepage. Last column shows the price asked for a link and payment period.

You will notice that some people sell permanent links, this is very good if you ask me but be careful that you don’t end up buying a link on site which disappears in couple of months…

I have to explain the last link; it is current PR0 but predicted PR4 on the next update. Since these prediction tools are not so accurate you can count on that that link will be PR3 on the next update but since (if) it shows that the owner of that website is putting effort to build it and if the homepage doesn’t have a lot of outgoing links you should definitely consider this link, I would.

You can see that there are two site wide links, one being PR5 and one being PR4. Assuming that they have similar number of outgoing links and similar traffic (although PR5 should have more traffic) I would buy PR4 link since it costs 15$ permanent! It is much cheaper believe me….

If you can afford to pay 25$ per month it would be a great idea to buy the first link on the list, it is PR7 at a reasonable price and I’m sure that if you pay yearly you would get a discount. High PR links tend to rank well on search engines and they get crawled a lot, so if you have a new site nothing will help it more then a high PR link. Great thing to do is to buy couple of high PR links from relevant sites with good traffic, they should pay out…

Of course when buying links, depending on what are you looking for, you should pay attention to number of outgoing links from site where you buy a link and traffic that site has. Always check outgoing links (there are tools to help you) and ask for a screenshot of last months traffic. Honest webmasters should provide this information without asking but in case they forget you should remind them.

I think that I covered basics of link buying. If you consider that I should go deeper into the subject I will but this is enough to get a big picture.

Again, thank you for your time.

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