Blackhat SEO - Is Buying Links A Black Hat SEO Technique?
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Of course it is. When a marketer pays for a link, they are essentially “buying a vote” for the page they are promoting. That link would not exist except that it was paid for. This gives extra weight to the promoted page in the search engine algorithms. The paid-for link does not itself add extra value to visitors, so the technique must be black hat.
source: http://www.ihategoogle.org/
What’s the point of reprinting this?
Most of the folks that ridicule blackhat techniques buy links.
And they know that buying links is against Google’s TOS and Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, but they rationalize it so that in their own minds they are pure and innocent.
If you buy links, you are a slimy, cheating blackhat like me. 
have a nice day,
Bompa
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