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Majority of SEOs Wants to Buy Nofollow Links

Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 3:27 am
Posted By: onreact 332 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Link Building

Poor Matt Cutts, SEOs adapt once again. A recent Search Engine Roundtable survey reveals: SEOs want to buy links even if they're nofollowed: 50% of respondents said they would.

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from NickWilsdon 332 days ago #

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I agree with the commenters on the post. Of course you're not going to turn down a front-page link from the NYT if it has a nofollow on it. You would be daft not to factor traffic, visibility, conversion and price into the equation.

If you have a high-end product even a few targeted referrals can pay off. You just have to work out the cost/benefit on each placement.

In general though I'd imagine life has got harder for small-time bloggers. If they want to switch to nofollow they would now need some traffic statistics to fall back on.

from Halfdeck 332 days ago #

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It's just like buying AdWords. Why the hell not? They drive traffic and generate sales.

from Gab 331 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Pffft NYT is nothing ... Aaron + Giovanna Wall gave my plugin a link the other day n that was t3h |_|ber sw33tne$$ ... @NYT: jkjk, link to me whenevr you want ;D

from stymiee 331 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Another perfect example of people having no clue what they're talking about. Once again, for those who just can't grab the concept, Google doesn't care if people buy links as long as they aren't doing it to manipulate the SERPs.

Too many newbies in SEO.

from thejimgaudet 331 days ago #

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I would definitely get a link on any front page just for traffic. I have a client who just added his webpage link in an article on wikipedia and now get 20 plus clicks a day from the article.

from onreact 331 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Hey stymiee. You are the noob, both in SEO and on Sphinn. It's a joke. You just did not get it.

from newmediatyp 329 days ago #

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I would carefully consider it as an option ... who knows what will happen ...

from MikeDammann 329 days ago #

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stymee, go back to sitepoint where some noobs may actually take you seriously for the lack of experience.

Thanks.

from LtDraper 329 days ago #

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Hey guys, can we inject a little civility here?

from SpostareDuro 329 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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stymie, partly right, but more not.

from Halfdeck 329 days ago #

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"Too many newbies in SEO."

That's pretty funny coming from a noob playing king of the hill 24/7 on sitepoint. Here's a refresher:

http://www.seobook.com/archives/002278.shtml

"Why John Conde, Stymiee at SitePoint Forums, is a Joke"

Get off your high horse like you know something and either join the discussion and say something useful or go somewhere else to feed your ego.