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It took about a year and a few extra servers but we now offer links in existing content on over one million different pages. It seems we are adding 5 – 10 new publisher sites everyday now due to a great word of mouth campaign. Our publishers have anywhere from one page of content to 50,000 pages of available content and rank from PR8 to PR0. At the rate we are going, 2 million publisher pages will be reached soon.
Remember, LinkXL is all about text link relevance. We believe it is better to spend $100 a month on 30-40 relevant PR0 contextual links than $100 on 1 non-relevant high PR link. If you are an advertiser, it is a very good thing if you can get past your PR obsession and buy low cost relevant links - both your pocket book and site will benefit greatly.
“Are Paid Links Evil?” That was the controversial question debated at a propaganda-filled panel discussion at this year’s SES San Jose Conference. One argument, endorsed by the big-gun search engines such as Google, asserts that paid links are akin to manipulation, causing a negative impact on search credibility and generally muddying the already murky waters of the web. On the other side of the aisle is the Pro-Paid Link contingent, sprouting the ideals of competitive market, fairness, anti-hypocrisy, and relevancy. The panel for this discussion included:
Many newbie webmasters have been scared off by the misinformation about text link advertising put out by Google “SEO Spokesman” Matt Cutts. Unfortunately, many of these webmasters will never have their websites ranked because no links means no ranking. It is pretty sad, all the great sites that will never be found because of an irrational fear of promoting websites properly.
Ironically, at the San Jose SES conference, while Matt Cutts delivered his “Paid Links are Evil” presentation, major link buys were taking place on the trade show floor. Scoffing at Mr. Cutts sales pitch, major SEOs and Internet Marketing companies were in an absolute link buying feeding frenzy. Footer, sidebar, or irrelevant links - it did not matter - if you had 1,000s of text links for sale, you had more buyers than you could handle at SES.
I guarantee, if paid links were not an effective form of advertising these major firms would not be wasting their time and money with paid text link advertising.
Contextual Links were a especially hot commodity as more SEO experts are coming to realize that they can get the biggest boost from natural links in content. Often, as the other trade show booths were empty, the LinkXL booth had a long line of interested attendees – many in line were in the market for as many quality contextual text links as we could sell them.
We are excited to be at the forefront of this new evolution in paid link advertising. In just a few short days we validated that “natural links in content” will soon be one of the most popular forms of text link adverting on the web.
We recently had a Blogline post that was talking about LinkXL being new to the community around the world. Some common questions were being asked and we thought this was a great opportunity to answer. You can find the post @ http://dotmyspot.com/home/content/view/467/9/
Text link advertising has become a serious threat to Google’s business model. Not only do paid links cut into Google’s advertising revenue, they can mess with their ranking algorithm. When search engines count unrelated links in the footer or sidebars of websites, the websites buying these links get an undeserved boost in the search engine rankings. I have seen travel sites buy footer links on software sites. These links are irrelevant and should not be, and are often not, counted by the search engines. Read the rest of this entry »
During March of 2005 StuntDubl discussed links within content and SEOs ongoing quest for the Perfect Link. Until now, there was no easy way to get paid links in content other than buy a “content page” or “presell page” and hope that your page gets spidered. Recently Bigoak’s SEO Blog gave their view of the perfect link - once again it is a link in relevant content. LinkXL makes the getting the perfect link much easier by allowing webmasters to buy links within pre-existing content with a few clicks of the mouse.
LinkXL Contextual Text Links are regular search engine friendly HTML links nestled in the middle of relevant content that both human visitors and search engines can follow. To get the perfect link, Read the rest of this entry »
In various SEO Blogs and forums there has been much discussion about Google’s efforts to spot paid text links. Many SEOs believe Google already has technology in place that helps them spot text link ads so they don’t count them in their search engine ranking algorithm.
At LinkXL we knew this day was coming for some time. So instead of complaining, we created a solution. After all, how hard is it to spot a block of text links in the sidebar or footer of a website? Think about it; you may be spending $100s or $1,000s of dollars on traditional paid text link ads that are doing nothing for your rankings. Read the rest of this entry »