This topic has come up a lot throughout the past and still people have mixed response's. Take a look at this blog post before responding.
Quote: Paid links are taboo in the SEO world, and many, many link building companies will swear up and down, left and right, that they don't pay for links. And companies that perform DIY link building probably wouldn't admit that they're doing it either, especially if they have been reading up on link building strategies.
Yet, if you do any backlink analysis of your competitors, you will see that there are plenty of links being bought that are affecting rankings, but they aren't directly named paid links. Some popular examples would
Quote: Paid links are taboo in the SEO world, and many, many link building companies will swear up and down, left and right, that they don't pay for links. And companies that perform DIY link building probably wouldn't admit that they're doing it either, especially if they have been reading up on link building strategies.
Yet, if you do any backlink analysis of your competitors, you will see that there are plenty of links being bought that are affecting rankings, but they aren't directly named paid links. Some popular examples would