Sunday, December 13, 2009

Link Building: Advantage & Disadvantages From Paid and Free Methods

By Pete Miguel


Indeed it is true that there are plenty of options to choose from when you want to build links pointing toward your website. Some methods may need you to pull out cash from your pocket while some methods are absolutely free to implement. Of course if you are just a beginner or still consider yourself a newbie in the arena of owning a site, you would surely opt to acquire links thru free ways, this gives you the chance to become more familiar with things.

If you have slight knowledge already about link building, then you know for a fact that there are quite a number of ways to get links for free. The only catch is that time is deeply involved in these free methods. Even if you already get too familiar with the process of acquiring links, you will still find building links to be very tedious.

For starters or beginning internet marketers, free methods of building links into their websites is surely recommended at first, but once you get your feet wet and start to comprehend the whole process of link building, then it is advisable that you eventually shift into paid options of acquiring backlinks to your website.

It is really easy to find link builders when you search the internet. You will find individual link builders and you will also find companies or big websites exclusively offering link building as their services. If you are good at researching stuff thru the search engines then you can easily find a good one fit for your exact needs. In fact even if you are just browsing, you may eventually find advertised websites from these link building providers.

While it is indeed true that there exists a lot of link building services out there, the type of services they offer actually vary in many ways, so you should be extra careful at choosing the providers you would like to hire. Some link building services just don't seem that reputable just by looking at the kind of services they offer - while there are some link building service providers I have already tried and have proved to be worth the money I paid for.

Most people would choose paid services to get links for their sites instead of doing it themselves mainly because they want to save time. Well of course, if you are not tight on budget and you have little of money to spend, buying a service is definitely the better option for you. While many people would like to just keep their hard earned money and just go the free route, a lot don't realize that they really aren't saving money after all because the process is eating up a lot of their time. Time is very precious, in fact time is expensive by the single minute.

Unfortunately though for a few website owners, even if they wanted very badly to find a good link building service to do it for them, they just couldn't afford it. Well, that is absolutely understandable especially for newbies who haven't even tasted earning a single dollar from the internet yet. For a start, you should just patiently build your links the free way, but be extra wise in choosing the methods in acquiring links. While there are ways to get links fast and easy, there are also ways where you will easily spend an hour without noticing in exchange for just a single link or two.

There are ways where you can build links by the dozen every half an hour or so. The only advice I can give for link builders is that instead of acquiring as many links as you could in a single day, build links consistently every single day instead. That makes it easier for you and not to mention, will be much more effective for your website's rankings.

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