Buying and selling links question

IF your site is going well on google, why change? why put it at risk with risky moves?

I keep hearing how important backlinks are. I’m trying to determine the level of risk.

I make good money selling links, but I'm careful about it. Basically my goal is to have purchased links be as useful (and as useful LOOKING) as my natural links. That means saying "No" a lot, being strict in my terms of sale, and sending a lot of people onward who wanted to pay shit money for shitty-looking links to shitty places.

Porn sites labor under a lot of SEO adversity already these days. I'm not saying "don't worry about penalties" because it can always get worse. But I am saying, sometimes selling links doesn't have to make it worse. On the other hand, if my SEO on a site was "killing it" I'd be a lot more reluctant to sell links on that site. The price would go way up, and I'd sell a lot fewer.

I don't have any links that are as cheap as $150 bucks. But then, most of the links I sell are surrounded by high-quality unique content, and the only way to guarantee that is to write it myself, which doesn't come cheap.

Last but not least, sign a contract? They can

That's not how it works with me. You send the money, I put up the link. It costs thirty thousand bucks minimum to get in and out of a court with a contract enforcement case these days; if the transaction isn't larger than that, a contract is just a waste of your time and mine. Meanwhile both sides have the emails setting up the deal; that's enough evidence to establish a contract in fact if somebody really does want to sue in small claims court or something stupid like that. LOL, no contracts.

Yeah 150 isn’t enough to risk getting my dick slapped by google. The thing is I have no idea how to price links so I’m in the dark. I spent 15 years in adult managing whales and their traffic. This is my first site. We are doing about 40k uniques a month organically growing 40% a month. The site is only 6 month old. It’s in cannabis not adult so it’s a bit easier I think.

Thanks for the input man! I appreciate it.

@forest - would love to buy some blog spots if you are doing Paysite posts as well -

drop me a message on skype - Paper_amar

Just sent you an email, Forest to the address you listed in the post in your sig.
Please confirm if you got it. Thank you.

Edit: that email bounced. Sent you a PM.

Forest would you share with me the contract? You can edit out the personally sensitive information, but I am curious about the terms and conditions they proposed.

Email is alex AT nalem DOT com.

Thanks.

Hey Forest,

From my understanding this company is asking you for a "guest post".

This WON'T affect your SEO negatively.

However, you said that they are asking for you to link to your direct competitor? yeah thats a no go.

If your SEO is as good as you say - this Guest post will do them Good and take up some market space on the search queries that could've been yours.

Also, throughout my years of experience with guest posting I have never encountered a company that had asked for a contract agreement - so I wouldn't do this offer personally.

However, selling Blog Posts on your blog could actually be monetarily beneficial for you. You could probably make an extra 1-2k a month basically doing nothing.