Hey GFY
A lot of my link trading and link buying opportunities are with wordpress sites which, to my eyes, seem pretty shady. It ranges from stuff
like this, to slightly better but still low-effort wordpress
sites like this. The first one is a trade I was offered on linkspun, and the second is asking $15 for a blog post.
I'm just not confident that these sorts of websites will always be looked at favorably by google. I work hard to make sure that the sites I own are of good quality, so I don't really want to be trading with sites like this. It sort of leaves a bad taste in my mouth. However, a lot of them have better backlink profiles than my own sites, so maybe its to my benefit? I think I have quality, SEO-optimized affiliate sites, but without good back link profiles they will just sit on the internet looking pretty.
Every once in a while I'm able to work out a good trade with a legit website, but these opportunities are rare. It seems like most adult webmasters are paying for their links, and truly quality sites aren't likely to care about reciprocal links or guest posts.
I guess to sum up: Should I trade links with lots of crappy small sites, go for the rare legit opportunities with better sites, or pay $100-$1000 on the higher class of paid backlinks? How does google feel about the endless horde of low-effort adult wordpress sites?
Thanks for reading
