Donations , ethics and google

[danlae]

Hi

What are your thought about donating to get a link. Site is a forum related to developing and programming. It has a PA of 65 and DA of 87 which makes this pretty tempting to me, For my keywords and ranking I know this would mean alot. Is this okay to do, borderline/greyish or is this something i should refrain from doing? I havent been 'donating' earlier.

Any thoughts are welcome.

[Alex-Harford]

Will you get any relevant traffic from the link?

Does it look like a good place to get a link? Is the content worthwhile?

What other sites do they link to? How many? Are they good quality?

Will they place your link whatever it is if you 'donate' or will they only link to related websites? Is there an editorial decision to be made?

Is the link nofollow or is there a chance they might make it nofollow in future? Do you have any guarantee that the site/link will remain there in the near/distant future?

I don't think I would do it but they are a few things to take into consideration. Here's a WBF I just found but haven't watched yet: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-we-bought-links-and-it-worked and there will be useful stuff here: http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results?q=paid+links

I should probably have opened the post with this, but here is Google's stance on paid links: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66736