Cheap SEO's, Backlinks, worth it?

[jbunton]

Hi! I am a newbie in this forum. I don't know anyone, nor do I claim to be a guru at the internet seo areas or sponsoring pay per clicks through adwords etc.

Upon searching for "cheap SEO's" I found this website and found these forums to be most useful. I will pose my question and hope somebody will aid me in trying to get first page search engine rankings.

I'll try to be clear as my head is filled with some terms I understand and some I'm learning. Here's my questions:

1.) I came across an article today by a Simon Conroy of reciprocal-power.com. As I was reading this article, he makes a convincing case that you should get many other websites to link your "url" on their sites and you do this vice versa.

Simon recommends you go to web directories such as "dmoz.net," and found the directory that closely fits your webstie and start a web directory on your website and link theirs from your website.

Upon doing this, write the webmaster of the site you added to your website "directory" and ask to be included on their website with a "embedded" url.

Simon claims by doing this he got first page rankings in 8 days or less.

Adversly, not in Simon's article, I have been reading that getting to many links at once can be considered spam with search engines such as Google.com etc.

This brings me to SEO's or Sponsored listings on Search Engines. SEO seems to be an expensive process, is there really any certain tim eperiod you see results?

This brings me to Sponsored listings on Search engines, do people generally forwn upon these (hopefully drawing on others experience) or are they considered by most to be an easier way to get what they want quickly. Then again, we're all human, i guess it could depend upon the person.

Any answers are greatly appreciated.

Joshua Bunton
http://hrnut.com

[Michael Allison]

First of all, welcome to V7N!!

Yes, links are valuable. They are the foundation of SEO.

I recommend you peruse this thread by John Scott.


Most, if not all, of your questions are answered there.

Good luck!

-Michael

[John Scott]

Welcome to v7n, Joshua.

First, yes, links are important. More important than the number of links, however, is the anchor text. You really ought to read this article on anchor text.

Simon recommends you go to web directories such as "dmoz.net," and found the directory that closely fits your webstie and start a web directory on your website and link theirs from your website.

It's a tried and true method of generating reciprocal links. It has put some websites up to PR8, and then dropped them down to PR0 when Google found it was a reciprocal link farm.

I'd recommend doing the directory, but having the links go to your main website, and the directory set up on its own domain.

And remember, anchor text. All the links in the world aren't going to get you where you want to be if the links don't have your targeted keywords in the anchor.

[jbunton]

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Welcome to v7n, Joshua.

First, yes, links are important. More important than the number of links, however, is the anchor text. You really ought to read this article on anchor text.



It's a tried and true method of generating reciprocal links. It has put some websites up to PR8, and then dropped them down to PR0 when Google found it was a reciprocal link farm.

I'd recommend doing the directory, but having the links go to your main website, and the directory set up on its own domain.

And remember, anchor text. All the links in the world aren't going to get you where you want to be if the links don't have your targeted keywords in the anchor.

John/Michael:

Thanks for your answers. I've read your suggestions. John: Your answers make sense, I'm changing some page names at the moment.

Thanks to you both.

Joshua Bunton
http://hrnut.com