Buying links for traffic is a waste of money reply
The response for my post on buying links for SEO was sooo incredibly polarized that there is almost no point in trying to refute those who disagree with me.
Here is my original
Ranking high in search engines will give you more traffic, and you get traffic from the link as well. That seems like a better deal.
I get thousands of visits a day for some keywords and that wouldnt be possible without SEO based links. I may only get 100 visits a day from websites that link to my site.
My analysis is rock solid. Anyone who still disagrees can suck it. werd
A new world order is upon us
We are living in a new world order of youtubes, googles, diggs, bookfaces, web 2.0, smarties and an global economic boom or infinite wealth creation and economic euphoria. Economic free trade and spending. Debt and buying. Consumerism and globalism. Spendism and materialism. Economic perpetualism, the world is a continuum. The Creators are in power, one nation, one world run by an elite. rich getting richer; make the wealth gap wider!
Tons of internet related headlines
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&i…tnG=Search+News
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&i…tnG=Search+News
So many web 2.0 smart people. Funds by smart people bid market up, Need to buy dips. Huge rally coming soon. Time 2 buy. Dow 16000 soon.
No serious news stories in Yahoo News:
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• Wildfire burns church, homes in Malibu California fires
• U.S. forces kill 49 in raid on Baghdad’s Sadr City
• Hillary Clinton rejects front-runner label’08 campaign
• Cuba holds first local elections without Castro Key issue
• Libya’s Gaddafi says weak nations need landmines for defense
• Former POWs struggle with torture debate Viewpoints
• Max McGee, hero of first Super Bowl, dies after fall from roof
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NO problems at all. Nothing is wrong. Noooooooooo subprime stories.
NO hosing stories.
Terror under control.
Gas prices aren’t excessive. .
Consumers WILL spend 3 a gallon on gas.
Rising oil and gold no problem.
Elections are soon.
No mortgage stories. There are no serious problems at all, which means MARKET WILL GO HIGHER.
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Need to vote in election. Smart educated well informed voters.
We’re in the middle of a massive internet and global economic boom. We have a spending and college education boom. We need more education to make more money so we can spend more. Smartists and spendists of global consumerism and materialism. One world gov. and free trade.
Banned from digitalpoint
After being a mamber of digitalpoint for two years I finally got banned for getting too many infraction points. Infractions are issued on a scale of one to possibly five and apparently if you get just 10 points you are banned from the forum.
If a moderator is having a bad day he’ll slap you with five infraction points, which is half of the total required to get banned. Frankly that is excessive, and there should be oversight to prevent a mod from issuing that many points at once. Worse, infraction points take a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time to expire. I have infraction points from last year still waiting to be cleared which gives you an idea of how demented the system is.
There are many other problems but those are the most pressing ones.
With regard to internet moderators abusing their powers this is nothing new. A moderator’s job is to ensure that posters follow a set standard of rules; not create arbitrary rules or bend the rules just cause they are having bad day or to fulfill a power trip.
Fortunately there are other webmaster forums which don’t have such strict rules. In spite of these obtuse policies digitalpoint will contiue to prevail as the number one webmaster forum. Hopefully smaller webmaster forums will be able to establish a foothold, but it sems that isn’t going to happen.
Buying links for traffic purposes is a waste of money
With google suposedly cracking down on so called ‘paid links’; sites that sell them as well as sites that purchase them a lot of webmasters are now advocating purchasing links strictly for traffic to avoid any penalties by using ‘no follow’ attributes. Sounds like a good idea, huh? Buy links, get traffic, avoid any penalties and both parties (the link seller and buyer) are happy.
Unfortunetely, buying links for traffic purposes is a very bad idea for many reasons. First,the purpose of SEO is to rank higher on the search engines so you get free traffic and by using ‘no follow’ you forfeit this benefit, second paid links usually don’t bring in much if any traffic from the site which you purchased links from, and third economic theory dictates you will probably pay more for the links than you will be able to monetize the aditional traffic.
When you buy a text links for SEO purposses you are making an investment in your website. The purpose of the link is to help you rank higher so you can get free, targeted traffic. By investing in the links, your site can earn more money from the additional traffic resulting from the higher rankings. However, no follow non-seo links won’t allow your site to rank higher in the search engines and you relinquish that benefits of free traffic.
Second, you usually don’t get much traffic from links. From personal expierience I have done links exchanges with my myspace site www.myspace-resource.info and the vast majority of sites I exchanged with don;t bring in much traffic. Only one site I have exchanged with brings in decent traffic, but that site gets over 10,000 visitors a day. And even then, we’re only talking maybe 100-200 uniques a day. Good, but not nearly enough to make your site a success. For most niche s, however, you will get much less traffic. Myspace happens to be a very high traffic niche. If you’re buying traffic links from a legal or medical site much trafifc will you get? Not much maybe 10 visits a day if you’re lucky.
Third, economic theory dictates you will pay more for the traffic gnerated from the links than you will make monetizing the traffic. Savvy webmasters caculate the average CPM for their pageviews. Then they estimate how many pageviews their site loses by adding an outbound link, and calculate a monthly total. Then when they sell a link they charge that amount plus an aditional markup to make a profit. But now you have to not only monetize the traffic to match the CPM from the site you bought the link from, but you must also surpass the premium as well. So now you’ve dug yourself into a pit.
My advice is if you’re going to purchase links, purchase then for SEO and traffic purposes, but be careful. Don’t buy links form unrelated sites; otherwise your site may get peanalized or the link wont pass any link ‘juice’. If you follow this rule you should not incur any difficulties when purchasing links.