SeoMoz Bought Links and It Worked!!

This video provides actual evidence that the diabolical practice of buying links can actually work (and astoundingly well). It also says the practice can get you penalized back to the stone age!

Experiment 1

• Bought a link for a three word phrase with a Keyword Difficulty Score of 30%
• Directed it at an SEOmoz blog post with the term in the body, but not in the title tag
• Ranking before link purchase: #458
• Ranking after link purchase: #30
• Time elapsed: 8 days (all links were pulled as soon as changes were observed)

Experiment 2

• Bought a link for two word phrase with a Keyword Difficulty Score of 36%
• Directed at page on an established, but low-authority domain with term at end of the title tag
• Ranking before link purchase: #426
• Ranking after link purchase: #58
• Time elapsed: 4 days

Experiment 3

• Bought a link for a three word term with a Keyword Difficulty Score of 26%
• Directed at a page on a brand new site with less than 10 total Backlinks
• Ranking before link purchase: #198
• Ranking after link purchase: #4
• Time elapsed: 4 days

Originally published here