This is just a personal rant, and I offer some advice that you can take or leave, as you choose. I believe that people buying links from “500 Words” Link Sizzler sites are simply wasting their money.
It all started with the “million dollar homepage.” I won’t link to it, because I believe it’s got enough links already. You can find it in a Google search if you don’t already know where to find it. In the case of that homepage, Alex Tew, a student who needed a couple of new pairs of socks, sold pixels from his site at $1 per pixel. Pixels had to be ordered in 10×10 blocks, and each pixel was linked to a specific website of your choice.
That was fair enough, and it was successful for the person who came up with the idea for the site. As I write this, the site has a Google PageRank of 7, and it probably boosted the rankings of all those who purchased links from the site.
In the case of the link sizzler sites, you are buying a link on the site that consists of a word as your anchor text. No matter how successful these link sizzler sites become, you’re not likely to rank well for a single word in the search engines just by having one link from one of them. You may even harm your rankings if search engines think that you are using less than legitimate tactics to improve your ranking. Also, these sites are not news, except, perhaps, for the first one. How are they going to develop any page rank and actually be worth something to you?
This represents my personal opinion. If you disagree with it, fine! Post a comment. Maybe you know more about search engine optimisation than I do; indeed, many people do, and I could be wrong. However, my advice is simply this: don’t waste your money on these links. The only people making money out of them are the people who sell the links.
David Thomas, The Affiliate Marketer
