Brokers and link submission companies leave you little “control” over where your links go. Never used’em, never will…

Sure, paid traffic may get some you some awesome visitor activity, but in the long run, it’s best to attain pure organic traffic.

In my experience, the natural traffic is much more effective and although takes more work, pays off better in the long term.

When Matt speaks, heed his advice and take copious notes! He doesn’t make the big bucks for nothing…

I think google is trying HARD to detect those paid links, also google promptly gave a PR penalty (yes you heard that right) to google Japan after that incident.

Its scary to think of all the webmasters out there who sign up for a service thinking they will get “fast traffic” or a better search engine placement when in actual fact, because of the techniques uses, they are harming their online presence.

I personally don’t see a problem with selling links on your site to help monetize it, but if it harms your placement in Google… then you better think twice before doing so.

There is definitely a difference between straight out spamming with links and taking care to make the users experience better.