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Since there’s an upcoming session at SMX advanced titled “Buying Sites for SEO“, I figured the timing is finally right to hit the publish button on a post I wrote long ago about finding quality sites to purchase for SEO benefits.

The first time that I published this was about 2 1/2 years ago, and I was quickly asked by a well known SEO expert and friend (I won’t name any names, but he’s on the panel at the “buying sites” SMX session) to remove the post and wait until buying old virgin sites was common knowledge.
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I wish I would’ve had time to finish/publish this post when I started it, but oh well. Better late than never I guess.

Sigh…what a crazy couple of weeks it’s been…yes I’m referring to Google’s scare tactics on paid linking and link networks. To be honest, I’m still trying to make sense of it all. It definitely left me scratching my head about some of the sites that were affected, including a few of my own.
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You may have noticed that I removed a recent post that put a “SEO company” that had been spamming me on blast, but I’m trying to reduce the number of negative posts here. To be 100% honest, the emails from scam/misinformed SEO firms are too frequent to address, which is unfortunate.

Instead let me take a minute to express my annoyance with yet another example of the hypocrisy that we face daily from Google. The “do as we say, not as we do” examples are piling up and getting really old. Guidelines should apply to both search engine and webmaster alike, or not at all.
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Filed under the category of “I know I should, but I never actually do that” is a simple tip for gaining free one-way links from companies that you do business with.

Have you purchased a product or service online recently? Of course you have. What did you think of the company, website, and/or your overall experience?
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Sorry, I don’t have any words of wisdom to pass along on this or this one because I’m too busy right now and it’s already been covered in all of the usual locations (and every one is a better dissertation on the subject than I could produce). What I can offer, though, is a short video that I think sums up Google’s stance on paid links very accurately. Stay under the radar and you’ll have nothing to worry about.
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