This blew up a bit more than I expected so I thought I'd add a bit of context and nuance to my point. There is a real divide in the replies between people who have worked in SEO for a long time and those who haven't. Those who have never experienced your entire business being removed/invisible from Google maybe don't see the risk vs reward the same way as those who have. If you do enough outreach for backlinks you'll find out that many sites sell them. There are spreadsheets where you can…

Ian Nuttall@iannuttallSep 2

Guys, I promise you, if you buy backlinks from Outrank you will get slapped out of the Google index and burn your domain forever. Too many people haven't lost their entire livelihood to a spam update yet and it shows!