Buying Links for SEO is a Really, Really Bad Idea

Just had a client call this morning about someone who was trying to sell her links. She was really confused by the creative salesman, and it took a while to talk her down from her link buying high. I walked her through, in a nutshell, what Matt Cutts has said about buying links (1, 2, among many other things). Mostly, I just kept re-iterating that buying links is a really, really bad idea.

9 Reasons Not To Buy Links

If only I had read Brian Chappell’s post on buying links first, I would have simply sent her there, and told her to call back when she finished reading it. Great list of 9 reasons you should be very worried if you’re buying links. Go, read it! Now