Here's What Happens When You Buy Links

[00:27] Today’s Topic: Here's What Happens When You Buy Links

[00:35] When Eric was first doing SEO, he would peruse black hat forums.

[00:47] Wicked Fire has a lot of offers for paid tools.

[01:01] Eric would buy links for sites and his sites would shoot up in the rankings.

[01:15] He was using cheap content brokers and they would blast a bunch of links, his rankings would increase, but then go back down after a couple days.

[01:45] Neil tried this with sponsoring an online poker contest.

[02:05] Sometimes these things work, but more often than not: you get burned.

[02:27] It’s cheaper and smarter to build your own site with quality content.

[02:41] Your rankings will maintain when you build your own site.

[03:26] Always play the long game.

[03:40] Build an audience.

[03:50] Investors are burned from buying high-ranking SEO sites.

[04:00] Sites that are built just to get to the top never last.

[04:54] Don’t waste your time buying links.

[05:02] That’s it for today!

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Here's What Happens When You Buy Links | Ep. #701