Buying dofollow paid links worth it for more search traffic?

[froggyboy604]

It isn't for me since I find I can usually get good search rankings for certain keywords by making a lot of blog posts and forum posts on a certain keyword/topic which have low competitions, but medium to high demand.

Personally, I rather spend my money on a better theme, mods, plug-ins, contests, articles, hiring a web developer/designer, and faster web hosting like a VPS or dedicated web host which will improve my members and website visitors experience.

But, I notice I been getting paid dofollow link advertising requests e-mails from Brochure style websites which do not have a lot of content, and are mainly stores which sell or promote products, so I'm wondering are paid links which pass pagerank/link juice really worth it even though Matt Cutts of Google Web spam team consider them to be spam and manipulative to the natural search rankings.

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[Renegader]

Re: Buying dofollow paid links worth it for more search traf

Links do help a bit, generally submitting to High PR Directories help the most. 🙂

 

[Fergal]

Re: Buying dofollow paid links worth it for more search traf

I rather spend my money on a better theme, mods, plug-ins, contests, articles, hiring a web developer/designer, and faster web hosting like a VPS or dedicated web host which will improve my members and website visitors experience.

I'd also agree with that. Also people should be aware that Google looks very unkindly on sites who sell do-follow text links and will often heavily penalise those sites if they see them doing it.

 

[cpvr]

Re: Buying dofollow paid links worth it for more search traf

Links do help a bit, generally submitting to High PR Directories help the most. 🙂

Links help you rank - that's why its great to build your backlinks through various methods. I've never paid for links, so I can't speak on that, but free links are better than paid links.

 

[froggyboy604]

Re: Buying dofollow paid links worth it for more search traf

The Yahoo Directory is an acceptable paid link directory for paid links since they have editors and staff which reject low quality websites . But, you have to pay 300 dollars for a review of your website, and if Yahoo feels your website is a low quality website they have a right to take your money, and reject your website.

https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/reference/cost

But for $300, you can get a VPS web hosting server, so your website load faster for your visitors, or buy templates, unique articles, and MODs which make your forum better for members.