{"id":39,"date":"2008-11-17T15:23:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T20:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slxls.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/buying-links-is-improper-seo-practice\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:06:21","slug":"buying-links-is-improper-seo-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/buying-links-is-improper-seo-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying Links Is Improper SEO Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buying links can clearly get you a large amount of links in a short period of time as opposed to organically building these links as your website grows and develops.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Buying or selling links that pass <a href=\"http:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/google-pagerank\/\">PageRank<\/a> is in violation of Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ranking in search results.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Although it may be tempting to buy links to gain an edge in seo, it will likely have greater negative effects than positive ones.\u00c2\u00a0 Google has recently started to crack down on websites that buy and sell links.\u00c2\u00a0 Websites can experience serious drops in pagerank and their serps due to improper link exchange.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course Google will not <a href=\"http:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/google-attacks-paid-links\/\">punish for paid links<\/a> if they do not find out, but Google is improving their methods for improper link exchange, and it is quite likely that your site will be punish if it engages in these activities.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of wasting time with paid links which will result in Google penalties, you may just want to effectively <a href=\"http:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/24\/buying-links-by-buying-websites\/\">buy links by buying a website<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Link exchange should be done in an organic manner as this will improve your seo naturally, and you will not have to worry about your website being punished for selling or buying links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying links can clearly get you a large amount of links in a short period of time as opposed to organically building these links as your website grows and develops.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ranking in search results.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,77,72,56,25],"tags":[146,27,26],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-links","category-promotion","category-search-engines","category-seo-search-engine-optimization","tag-links","tag-search-engine-optimization","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}