Professional Link Builders
  • Golf Tee WarehouseGolf Tee Warehouse
     
    January 2010
    I am trying to gradually increase the number of good quality backlinks to our site but have not had the time so was considering using the services of a professional link builder from sites link scriptlance.com (programmers usually from India, Ukraine, etc bidding for work).
    I have read the reviews of several of the regular freelancers who take on link building projects and have idetified several who have atleast 80+ excellent reviews (averaging 9.9 and above out of 10) for this type of work.

    The typical charge for building say 200-250 quality backlinks seems to be around $150 for someone with good feedback.
    Typically the projects state that the backlinks should be:
    Permanent (minimum 6 months).
    one-way links only.
    No more than one link per website/IP address.
    On PR3 pages and greater only.
    On pages with no more than say 10 outbound links.
    Not placed on link farms.
    No 'Black Hat' techniques.
    On related sites and not general interest sites.
    links must be from real, established sites and to have been cached by google.
    many projects.
    etc, etc

    Before employee their services I would also want to see examples of previous similar work so I can see the type of sites the links would be from

    Would I be asking for trouble by paying for such a service or am I likely to get good quality backlinks that might be worth the expense. I certainly don't want to upset the mighly Google.
    I suspect the answer might be 'Don't touch with a bargepole' and 'There is no substitute for spending the time your self building links slowly and adding content to your site that people will want to link to'.


    I have read several articles about backlinks but am only a novice and intend when I get time to write a couple of articles, etc to try and help with building back links.
     
  • GrantGGrantG
     
    January 2010
    I suspect you won't get many answers from those who offer this sort of thing as a commercial service, because it seems to be a hush-hush subject. Probably not around here, but on most mainstream developer/seo-related forums..you won't hear a peep.

    The harsh reality is a lot of "SEO" companies are doing the exact same thing...sub-contracting their service, which in essence means they take £500, pay someone $200, and take £350 profit, for doing nothing.

    Oh yeah, you want a few answers. I say go for it - pick one person with good knowledge and reviews, then slowly build it up, comparing your progress (in terms of traffic and sales increases, etc) with the £ it costs per link.

    Golf Tee Warehouse said:
    I have read several articles about backlinks but am only a novice and intend when I get time to write a couple of articles, etc to try and help with building back links.
    The biggest problem with these articles is...they are all written by the same group of folk who ain't done a days work in their lives and expect the unsuspecting to click the Adsense and various other adds strategically placed around the article content - how many people are told they need backlinks to gain results, but have no tech-sense and go click happy...It's not all about backlinks, though IMO it does add the most weight to your rankings... unique content + backlinks = winner:cool:.
     
  • Golf Tee WarehouseGolf Tee Warehouse
     
    January 2010
    I did wonder about that, as searching the net I could find hundreds of companies offering to generate hundreds of top quality backlinks manually (not automated) for what seems relatively low cost but virtually nothing about how these companies work.

    I can see if I was paying £2-£5 per link they could spend time to create good quality links but was sceptical when some advertise 250 links for just $59 without using link farms, etc and for links to appear of pages with good google Page Ranks.
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    January 2010
    Read this - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66736
     
  • ChunkfordChunkford
     
    January 2010
    Buying links is a cat and mouse game.
    You could buy links off someone 1 month and they rank - YAY, but then google de-lists the site that has the links to your site, and the link don't rank and you have to find more links to make up the links you've losted - BOO
     
  • GrantGGrantG
     
    January 2010
    chunkesolutions said:
    Buying links is a cat and mouse game.
    You could buy links off someone 1 month and they rank - YAY, but then google de-lists the site that has the links to your site, and the link don't rank and you have to find more links to make up the links you've losted - BOO


    Getting links is a cat and mouse game.
    You could get links off someone 1 month and they rank - YAY, but then google de-lists the site that has the links to your site, and the link don't rank and you have to find more links to make up the links you've losted - BOO

    :wub:
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    January 2010
    I hear more disaster stories about people having thier site blocked because of these companies overseas than anything else - I had one this morning from a guy who paid thousands to get links so his site could be No1 and all he got was an empty wallet and a site which vanished
     
  • Golf Tee WarehouseGolf Tee Warehouse
     
    January 2010
    I might forget the idea and play it safe.

    I assume there are professional link builders out there that can increase inbound links legitimately without risking a penalty from google but without anyway of distuinguishing between them it seems to be a minefield with one wrong move resulting in your site being blown out of the water.

    I tend do do everything myself (Web Design, SEO, Adwords Campaigns, Accounting, Purchasing, Packing) but was hoping this might have been a quick fix for obtaining extra inbound links without huge effort.
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    January 2010

    but was hoping this might have been a quick fix for obtaining extra inbound links without huge effort.
    And thats why they take people for a ride. Link building is THE most soul destroying job going - I know becuase I used to do it every day and now Id rather slash my wrists than do it.

    As a site owner though you MUST do it as it part of the big SEO picture but you must do it correctly and the usual reason google detects these link builders is that they want to do it quickly because more links means more money but Google wants you to do it slowly. There is a graph which is part of thier algo which dictates the growth rate on backlinks based on site age/activity and if you exceed that then your in big trouble - all the link building services tend to exceed the growth rate and so google gets you.
     
  • GrantGGrantG
     
    January 2010
    Ruralweb said:
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    Out of interest, when a site is featured on prime TV or offers something no-one else ever has...and the link building grows at a phenomenal rate...does Google ban 'em? ;)
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    January 2010
    It will trigger a manual review of the site that will show that the link increase is due to natural causes and not result on a penalty.
     
  • ChunkfordChunkford
     
    January 2010
    Golf Tee Warehouse said:

    I assume there are professional link builders out there that can increase inbound links legitimately without risking a penalty from google but without anyway of distuinguishing between them it seems to be a minefield with one wrong move resulting in your site being blown out of the water.


    Good link builders are the ones that create things that people want to link to, either that be by press releases, articles, blogs, reviews etc. just look at their work and examine it. Anyone that says they can put a figure on it e.g. 1000 links a month is just spamming IMO
     
  • RuralwebRuralweb
     
    January 2010
    Good link builders are the ones that create things that people want to link to
    This is "link baiting" which is far more ethical
     
  • ChunkfordChunkford
     
    January 2010
    Defo, It's the 'I want it now' society & the 'take the easy route' people that makes it still a business model.

    If you do buy thinks this is the sort of site they can go on, gainterrain . com
     
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