How good is paid links?

[Betting In The North]

I am running a fairly new affiliate site, and I am trying to figure out how good/bad it is to pay other sites to put my links up on their site? What is the worst case scenario?

 

[pco]

I am running a fairly new affiliate site, and I am trying to figure out how good/bad it is to pay other sites to put my links up on their site? What is the worst case scenario?

that you will get a manual penalty from google, and won't rank anymore.

 

[Betting In The North]

Okay, yeah that wouldnt be too good. And how worried do I need to be about that?

 

[pco]

Okay, yeah that wouldnt be too good. And how worried do I need to be about that?

It depends, not if you don't care about your site.

In the gambling industry it's very hard to rank without buying links, so you will need to take risk if you want to rank for some more serious keywords.

 

[Betting In The North]

Yeah, I do care about my site.
Okay, thanks! Any links or sites that are better or worse? Like generally speaking.

 

[pco]

Yeah, I do care about my site.
Okay, thanks! Any links or sites that are better or worse? Like generally speaking.

generally speaking, make them look as natural as possible, preferably on authority sites, in content about the subject. google is getting smarter and smarter. if you can't spot the paid link in a blog post, you did a great job

 

[Betting In The North]

Thanks! Good advice when I move on forward with this

 

[KingAffe]

Follow

 

[StepGart]

Hi!
In the backlink, relevance and thematic are important. Try to find themed sites with your site and give back links to your site. Do not forget about the social networks, they generate good traffic, and do not require large expenses.

 

[Betting In The North]

Hi!
In the backlink, relevance and thematic are important. Try to find themed sites with your site and give back links to your site. Do not forget about the social networks, they generate good traffic, and do not require large expenses.

Great advice, thanks!

 

[Thomas Andreas]

yeah, you do need to buy links to rank. If you do it well, you will not get penalized.

 

[jopaa]

Try to find themed sites with your site and give back links to your site.

It doesn't work for gambling!!! Did you ever tried to contact someone that have a gambling related website and ask for a link? Most webmasters won't add a link to your website even if you pay for it.

 

[Catfish]

There are tons of sites out there where you can buy links, blog posts etc. Just be careful that they cannot be infiltrated by Google - they have been known to sign up at a site and harvest the URLs of sites that put up links for sales.

 

[jopaa]

There are tons of sites out there where you can buy links

Name 1 website where you can buy QUALITY gambling related backlinks

 

[Catfish]

Seedingup, for one. Although honestly I do prefer to do business directly with members from the affiliate community.
Also, links from non-gambling sites can have value as well. IMHO it is all a matter of finding the right mix.

 

[jopaa]

Seedingup, for one.

Just looked at this website but I can say nothing about the quality of the backlinks because you must pay for the service first and then you get access to the website where your baklink will be placed. Also, if you don't like the website then you can only "cancel" the order for a limited amount of times:

What do I do if I do not like the website offered? (After disclosure of the URL)
For all bookings on our marketplace, we disclose the URL immediately after receipt of payment. If you do not agree with a URL, you can withdraw from the booking until the Publisher has finally accepted the booking. Disclosure of the booking to the Publisher is somewhat delayed so that the URL can be checked directly after receipt of payment. Please note that this process is not possible as many times as you like.

Using the dashboard in your customer account, you can see an overview of bookings with the status "Open booking request". As long as the option to cancel still exists, you will see the link to the cancellation next to your booking.

Even if some of the publishers may accept gambling and place your backlink on a quality website this seems very time consuming.

 

[Catfish]

I know, but they have some good sites there. And once you have ordered a few links, they will change your status and you can see the domains before booking. If you are seriously interested in some high-DA sites (non-gambling though), I have a guy who has a long list of sites he can publish on. They accept gambling links. PM me if interested.

 

[Betting In The North]

There are tons of sites out there where you can buy links, blog posts etc. Just be careful that they cannot be infiltrated by Google - they have been known to sign up at a site and harvest the URLs of sites that put up links for sales.

And how I am suppose to determine if a site can be infiltrated by google or not?

 

[Catfish]

The fact that the URLs are "masked" for new signups is one measure those sites take to protect them against Google.

 

[Betting In The North]

The fact that the URLs are "masked" for new signups is one measure those sites take to protect them against Google.

Okay, thanks. Will keep an eye out for this then. But integrated links in form of blog post will be less likely to be "detected" I take it?