Guys i came across excellent tips... Do consider before buying or selling links some tips and things to keep in mind: * Don’t title paid links with “sponsored” or “paid”. Instead, list the links as “featured” or “related sites”. * Don’t post or constantly write about selling links or how much you ma...

Well, i think you need to some smart work... As far as I know there is actually no problem with buying/selling links and you should take care that you are buying too many links! you could easily get PR3 or PR4 by interlinking your own websites and buying around 10 or 15 links from PR3 websites But i...

I think whole idea of paid links being a negative one in my opinion is dumb. How am i then supposed to advertise? The internet is completely built upon links... Thats like cablevision is dropping Fox 5 because they charge money for commercials...

What about Google ads? they are by definition called "paid links" but they just name it advertising...

On the other hand, I think it will be impossible to know which website is selling links unless you say that in the website.

And also make sure that you try to find in-text links from related sites only. They are the best to my experience.

It is very simple..

buying links for PR: BAD
buying links for traffic: GOOD.

Now if you are buying links for TRAFFIC results in a higher pagerank down the road, then all well and good. Just dont buy them for PR alone, as thats a total waste of money i guess.

Despite of Google's policy and even its latest action, they'll never catch all the paid links. Backlinks deserved to be credited - be it paid or not..!

Probably MSN has some other reason behind this...

I agree... social bookmarking to dig, furl all works great..