Here's What Happens When You Buy Links | Ep. #701

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Marketing, Careers, Business

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In episode #701, Eric and Neil discuss what happens when you buy links. Tune in to hear why this isn’t the best practice. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: Here's What Happens When You Buy Links [00:35] When Eric was first doing SEO, he would peruse black hat forums. [00:47] Wicked Fire has a lot of offers for paid tools. [01:01] Eric would buy links for sites and his sites would shoot up in the rankings. [01:15] He was using cheap content brokers and they would blast a bunch of links, his rankings would increase, but then go back down after a couple days. [01:45] Neil tried this with sponsoring an online poker contest. [02:05] Sometimes these things work, but more often than not: you get burned. [02:27] It’s cheaper and smarter to build your own site with quality content. [02:41] Your rankings will maintain when you build your own site. [03:26] Always play the long game. [03:40] Build an audience. [03:50] Investors are burned from buying high-ranking SEO sites. [04:00] Sites that are built just to get to the top never last. [04:54] Don’t waste your time buying links. [05:02] That’s it for today! [05:06] Go to Singlegrain.com/Giveway for a special marketing tool giveaway! Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
0:11.4	marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school
0:14.5	with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
0:19.4	All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.
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0:49.3	great way to improve your load time.
0:51.6	Welcome to another episode of marketing school.
0:55.0	I'm Eric Sue and I'm Neil Patel and today we're going to talk about what happens when you buy links
1:00.0	and I'll kick this off when I first started doing SEO I would go to the Black Cat
1:05.6	forms like Wicked Fire I would never go to the Black Cat SEO one for whatever
1:09.8	reason maybe feel like a Black hat SEO even though that was doing black
1:12.6	out SEO but Wicked Fire has a bunch of link providers and I think they still do
1:17.2	they're selling these all these packages by this link wheel or like there's all these
1:21.3	like black hat terms and you know we'll do this
1:23.4	you know SE nuke for you like all these different black hat tools but the the basic premise of
1:28.3	this is I bought links for sites that I had in the past. And what would happen was that my sites would shoot up
1:35.4	in like two weeks.
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