Its been observed by most SEO gurus, that text links within content is much more valuable then text links found in footers or sidebars. Buying links within content is a worthwhile link building strategy and what better way to do it then through blogging! Although, its still very important to mix the link building with various type of links and not solely rely on blog links.

Benefits of Text Links Within Content

When bloggers write a post about your site or blog about topics related to your site or keywords, search engines see the links as more valuable. If an author feels that a site is worth linking to within the context of their article, logically, it must be important. From a search engine perspective, detecting similar or related keywords around a text link triggers their algorithms into thinking that the link is very relevant.

On the other hand, having text links in footers and sidebars, while still has value, may not have synonyms or related text surrounding the link. In many cases, sidebars and footers might even have a long list of links which also dilute the page rank (if your one of those who are in love with PR) and value flowing onto your site.

Top 4 Blog Sites

Here are the top 4 sites to purchase blog posts that contain text links back to your site.

4/ ReviewMe.com - This is a fairly good site to buy real quality blog links. They do however, charge an arm and a leg. If you have the extra money, no harm buying some quality blog links that also have good traffic. I’ve also found that the bloggers mention within their article that the post is “paid”. With Google recent uproar about having paid links, its probably not a good idea to have keywords like “sponsored review”, “paid post” or anything similar near your text link. This is one main reason I’ve stopped using ReviewMe.

3/PayPerPost.com - Another blog advertising site with great quality blog sites to buy posts. The added benefit they offer are press releases and videos (which is already becoming huge, with sites like youtube and metacafe). They are definitely heading in the right direction. The interface looks very slick and simple but there are a few annoying factors about opening opportunities for bloggers. Not sure if its just me, but it takes forever to load pages within their interface. Again, there is the concern with “paid post” text at the end of blog posts.

2/ Blosevertise.com - Very good pricing for posts in blogs. Excellent interface and easy on the eyes. What I love about blogsvertise is the search function, allowing advertisers to go straight for the niche blogs that relate to their sites. A clear column showing page rank and alexa rankings. It even shows the links pointing to that particular blog when you hove over the URL. Maybe the downside are the lack of quality blogs compare to payperpost and reviewme. Actually, one other thing I really hated, was their slow response with affiliate payments. They still owe me money. But other than that…great site.

1/ SponsoredReviews.com - By far the best blog advertising site I’ve used so far. The interface allows you to pick mulitple blogs after creating a project and the prices are quite cheap as well. Quality blogs you’ll have to pay a bit more for of course but no where near the prices that reviewme charge. Quick response time from customer service as well. I’ve spent a few thousand already with Sponsored Reviews.

What’s great about these text links is that they are permanent links. None of those rip off monthly costs. Keep in mind, since these are permanent links, the longer your text links are existing on these blog the more valuable they are since there is weighting on how old a link or site is.