Buying Links for Beginners
When looking to buy text links, there are several options open for new blog or website owners. Before you can begin looking, however, we need to, again, go over some ground rules. The first rule is to always try to trade text links instead of buying them. If you offer to buy first and then try to trade, you will end up paying more than you needed to. A lot of site owners are nice and remember what low-traffic days are like. The second, and more important, rule is that you should mostly only buy/trade links with sites on related matters. Don’t buy a text link from a flower potting site for your sports blog.
There are two main ways to find sites willing to sell text links to you. The first, and easiest, method is to find a forum with a marketplace that allows links to be bought or sold. These forums, like the one linked to in this post, allow hundreds of site and blog owners to openly negotiate prices and terms on neutral ground. They also allow a text link purchaser to look through various offers and pick out the one that best fits his or her site. You can even post your own ad offering to buy certain site’s links, specifying what PageRank and topic the site must have.
The other way to buy text links is to search Google. Your main objective in buying text links, after all, is to become one of the top results on Google’s search engine. So why not look at which sites occupy that spot right now? Say you are about to start a San Fransisco 49ers blog. Wouldn’t it be useful to have the established and prominent 49er blogs linking to you? Search Google, find blog/site owner e-mail addresses, and send an e-mail with your offer. Remember to try and trade links first (in my personal experience most site owners are willing to help out) and only offer to buy a link if they refuse to trade.
If you get a bunch of sites linking to you, your PageRank and traffic should eventually go up. This is, however, just the absolute basics to text linking.
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