Comments on: Rand Fishkin On Buying Links For SEO – PubCon Review

By: insurance seattle

insurance seattle — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:12:09 +0000

Unique article wizard is O.K. However, there are better programs.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:44:50 +0000

Bobby Carswell, as a user of Market Samurai myself (since its inception) I’d love to catch up via email. Drop me a line at seogeniusnz@gmail.com

By: bobby Carswell

bobby Carswell — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:06:16 +0000

i used market samurai to search seo professional services. i found their best links and tracked to the link site. I found Many professionals buy high PR links.

By: Aloe

Aloe — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:13:18 +0000

Yah, I think Rand screwed up a while back with text-link-ads, or else he just wants to keep a low profile on that technique, but perhaps he is still using it? Come on Rand, fess up!

By: Joan

Joan — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:37:26 +0000

Now I’m really worried. Have I done the wrong thing? I’m getting a bit antsy about gaining poularity in the Google search engines for my web pages so I joined Unique Article Wizard, posted an article, went through the rigamarole of changing up the content twice and submitted the article.

Would you call this a link farm?

I have worked my butt off developing this website and don’t want to screw things up but it’s a helluva slow road posting ezine articles, Squidoo lens and so forth and my traffic still doesn’t seem to be growing very rapidly.

I am starting to lose heart and I’m not a quitter.

I bought your seo course and I think I’ve done a pretty good job on keyword research but like you said Amazon and the big guys have us beat.

Joan

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:17:43 +0000

I’m also calling BS on Rand. He blatantly advertises his own link buying services on SEOmoz! To quote:

“Link Building Campaigns (From $10,000+) – One of the most classic SEO services, link building campaigns range from small, selective optimization of a keyword to large, overarching efforts to boost the total link popularity of a website. Our services include custom link-requests, link searches, social media work, directory submission (where warranted) and paid links (as necessary).”

I really don’t see how he can be condemning paid links, then offering link buying as one of his services. Here’s the link to the page where he offers it:

http://www.seomoz.org/pages/seo-consulting#servicesandpricing

By: Finger

Finger — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:02:17 +0000

Of course Rand is against paid links. His clients were burned a few years back because he was buying paid links via Text Link Ads. It was lazy of him to do that, but Rand is a follower not a thought leader, so he was simply doing the same dumb things everyone else did. Here is the page on TLA where Rand praises and recommends buying links.

http://www.text-link-ads.com/testimonials.php

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:47:15 +0000

On the surface this seems to make sense, but in the real world I think it just favors large companies. If you advertise then it is not like buying links even though it will count as a backlink? but if you buy a backlink, and get a lead you will get clobbered? Large companies can spend million for on line advertisement, but small business cant spend a few bucks for backlinks without getting shut down? All the suggestion for for getting links the “right way” sound good, but are actually fringe ideas, that most will find impossible.

For example: “- Spend the money necessary to increase your webpage load speed.” In this day and age when the bandwidth is been shooting up, why would we limit innovative use of flash, video, images, voice, you name it? Is this harmful to the internet, like smoking is a public area?

This is starting to feel like it is worse then government regulations. At least with government regulations, they publish all the specifications. With the search engines all their detail specifications are kept confidential and there is no notification of penalties imposed.

By: Nelson James

Nelson James — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:26:27 +0000

I thought I was your idle in the SEO world. What gives?
Okay, if it’s confession time, I really like Rand as well. He’s a smart SEO cookie. All good info here from him.