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This thread is around 2 years old I'm sure Gigi has found a way around it by now

how has guest blogging been for you? has it helped your site or not much at all?

IMHO, and with respect, I wouldn't buy links at all, from any sites. If you do, they have to be stripped of link juice before the google gods accept them.

Unless you're maybe saying that you buy from people at freelancer and fiverr where they build you a few hundred (or thousand) links that point to your site? That is about the worst thing you could do for your site (once again IMHO). Unless you have a way of tracking every link, you're going to end up with your site placed on sites you wouldn't want your links on. Low quality sites already spammed to death by the same freelancer trying to make a quick buck.

From what I have heard, gunning for only do-follow sites is one of the best ways to get google to take notice of your site - in a bad way. One needs a good mix of both dofollow and nofollow for any linkbuilding campaign to work effectively (is there an echo in here?)

The way I see it is this, a marketer needs to emulate a normal person. They aren't specific about where they go, or whether or not the site is dofollow or not, if they find something interesting (like we do on forums) we link to it, simples. A marketers job is to make sure web content meets those criteria, being interesting enough for others to link to, so it makes their linkbuilding campaign a little easier.

Its not about where the link is, its about the context in which the link is placed. Anchor texting has gotten into trouble as well because its been spammed to death, like .edu and .gov site links, and the innocent keywords meta tag in a website. Its also not always more about how many links there are as opposed to where they're placed.

They actually had the audacity to call again. This time it was a man and not the same woman. Needless to say they got less of my time and red ears to boot.

con artists.

In hindsight it may have been a good thing my pride did the talking.

I got a cold call this morning from a company that dealt with Viruses. The call came from another country (more than likely - the line was extremely bad). They give me this long story about how they have been getting complaints from other people in my country about viruses being downloaded off the net. The lady then asks me, are you near your computer - I'm working, so I say yea, is it powered on? (rolled my eyes at that one, I said yea again. "Can you find your start button for me please?" I click on my start button and she asks me what I see my computer, or computer. I ask her why I need to do this, she says to identify the viruses. I tell her that I am an A+ qualified PC tech and that my PC has no viruses whatsoever. Which she seems to ignore.

She then asks me to right click on computer and click on manage. which I do. But at the same time I'm distracted by a text message, and she thinks my PC's not running fast enough and she says "you call yourself a PC technician and your computer's slow?"
To which I then replied that I don't need to participate in this, and put the phone down in her ear.

So, armed with a few choice keywords, I go consult the Big G, and this is the first post I found. They try to get you to install software on your computer that gives them access to it. They ask you to pay for the software and it becomes sort of PC blackmail. If you don't keep paying them, they lock you out of your own computer and you cannot use it.

Now, going to go make some coffee and try some breathing exercises to calm down.

Going for Rock. Today its Rev Theory - Heck yea (profanity edited out). Tis good music though.

Dang, that's one heck of a number. yea, I guess if they've been emailed and such, and they still don't get the picture, 'tis not worth it. Will get rid of a lot of clutter, but can't help feeling bad for those about to lose their listings. People with free listings probably wouldn't bat an eyelid at losing their listings, but what about those that paid? 'Tis an awful waste of money methinks.