But I have heard that PatrickGaving.com and SEOInc.com were penalized for too many link buys. SEOInc which first use to be the leader in the SEO industry is now gone from even the top 100 listings in Google.

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It depends upon the quality of the link and how a search engine going to consider it in your network, It quite obvious that quality links will bring quality traffic, either you buy it or get it free that does not matter.

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Ya I know that I also buy links but I am just curious to know what happened there in the case of PatrickGaving and SEO Inc.

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whats the definition of an "auhtority site"?

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Authority site means a site that is considered high quality by the search engines i.e the is having a high ranking in the major search engines.

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