{"id":424,"date":"2008-10-22T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/buying-text-links-is-legitimate\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T02:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T06:53:58","slug":"buying-text-links-is-legitimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/buying-text-links-is-legitimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying text links is legitimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buying text links is of course a lawful marketing practice but such links should never be bought on the basis of PageRank score &#8211; its just not a useful metric for such a decision.<\/p>\n<p>There is abundance of opportunities to buy text links &#8211; on portals, trade associations, ezines, even non-profit organizations.<\/p>\n<p>If you are leaving to buy text links, then do so based on marketing decisions:<\/p>\n<p>    * Does the site serve your target markets and present potential for getting excellence traffic?<br \/>    * Will your text link be easy to get to to search engines?<br \/>    * Is the content of the site well-matched with the products or services that you present?<br \/>    * Is the design of the site expert and do the companies who have already bought text links appear to be reputable?<br \/>    * Do you have a budget and a target in mind? You will spend $x and wait for sales of at least $y in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying text links is of course a lawful marketing practice but such links should never be bought on the basis of PageRank score &#8211; its just not a useful metric for such a decision. There is abundance of opportunities to buy text links &#8211; on portals, trade associations, ezines, even non-profit organizations. If you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}