Competitive Link Buying - Outrank Your Competitors!

Does your approach to buying links get you the rankings you desire? Too often link buying is just done through regular link brokers such as Text Link Ads etc. Even though there are competitive link buying tactics that will get you much more value for your money in terms of search engine rankings.

Don’t get me wrong. Text Link Ads, Textlinkbrokers.com and so on, are great services. But the link bought from them should be considered advertising rather than part of your strategy to obtain top rankings. If you goal of link buying is to obtain long term rankings and beat your competitors in the SERP’s, then paying a shitload of money each month isn’t really a viable strategy.

For quite some time I’ve utilized a less common but highly effective method to buy links. The downside of it, is that it takes some manual work. But don’t worry, it has its advantages..:

• The work is stupid easy - and can be done by any link monkey
• The links are most often damn cheap and only paid once
• Most often you’ll obtain somewhat permanent links
• Your competitors will slowly lose rankings due to your approach

Well, it’s probably about time I deliver. The method is dead simple and in all its simplicity just to buy your competitors organic links. You see, that’s competitive link buying!

How to do competitive link buying

The actual way to do this, is much like having a bunch of link monkeys ninjas to do link building. The difference is simply that you want have links changed!

1. Analyze the backlinks of your competitors
2. Order their backlinks by value in a spreadsheet
3. Contact the website owners / webmasters
4. Request to get linked instead of your competitor
5. Put money on the table from the start

You might ask why it’s necessary to pay for the links when you could just ask for the links to be changed. The reason is that when money is offered it’s much more likely that you’ll succeed on your quest. Who doesn’t want to make a buck from nothing..? Also, when webmasters are paid to link they often feel more obligated to keep the link in place.

To make this concept a bit white hat, I recommend you to make the website you’re promoting at least as good as the competition, or even slightly better. Then you’re doing the users a favor and you’ll have a good argument to close the deal.

A word of caution. Be aware of you brand! Not everyone will take the cash and be happy. Some might consider this a shady tactic and make it public. To minimize the risks I’d say you should avoid contacting bloggers, or at least A-listers, unless they’re obviously taking money no matter the cause.

Other tricks to avoid someone outing you for this, is not to disclose your website in the first approach to the webmasters. Or use another website, and then re decide when the deal is closed. And lastly, put a disclaimer in the bottom of your emails with some legal sounding mumbo jumbo like “confidential info - may not be disclosed”. That will scare some people from disclosing your emails.

Happy link buying as a competitive webmaster!