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SEO Scenario – Paid Links | Real SEO | Scoop.it — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:14:34 +0000

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By: Johnny Potato

Johnny Potato — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:19:36 +0000

I tend to think of it along the same lines as email spam. Instead of chucking unsolicited emails in their inbox, you are putting undeserving websites in their SERPs. Basically, taking a short cut and spoiling someone else’s search results for your own gain. Ethical or not, dress it up however you want, it’s not right.

However, in the grand scheme of things, it’s not that big a deal. People will always take shortcuts, let them get on with it. I’m not sure why they get so upset when people call them on it though.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:00:29 +0000

Sean and I’ve debated this on Twitter before, but the moral obligations of an SEO are to the client and to keeping the SERP’s relevant.

If buying a link or 3 to help boost an ultra relevant piece of content from obscurity to somewhere on page 1 to outrank a bunch of irrelevant results have we hurt anyone & are we morally bankrupt by doing so?

Buy buying the links was it cheaper for the client than an outreach campaign or offering free samples for review?

Even Google doesn’t have a problem with paid links its just they would like them to be “No-Follow” so that they don’t pass Pagerank/Link Juice.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:59:51 +0000

This.

You won’t be able to sustain a ranking for an off topic keyword – and if you can it won’t convert. Given that, no one that I know personally (or have seen in action) is buying links to an irrelevant page.

Being relevant is a bare-bones given, not an advanced SEO tactic.

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:55:57 +0000

this is getting very “meta” isn’t it?

By: 011100110110010

011100110110010 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:55:11 +0000

So, pretty much fuck Google, we are all trying to make a buck here?

By: 011100110110010

011100110110010 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:51:58 +0000

“don’t worry, not reading them too often” You better not Alessio!

By: Barry Adams

Barry Adams — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:51:53 +0000

Since I cast myself as a contrarian, that would make you a self-professed contra-contrarian.

By: 011100110110010

011100110110010 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:48:54 +0000

Cheers Russ, will check it out.

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:48:18 +0000

Yes.