Can you buy backlinks for a mom blog and still sleep well?
Yes, you can buy them. Whether you should is a gentler question, and it depends on how many, from where, and what you hope they will do.
Grace Blogging editorial team ·
The honest answer
You can, but Google is not a fan of it
Google's spam policies name buying or selling links that pass ranking credit as link spam. Plenty of small sites do it anyway, and the risk grows with volume and carelessness. A few relevant placements are a very different thing from a package of five hundred. Our teardown of bulk offers explains the second case.
Small and relevant lowers the exposure
Bulk and anonymous raises it
Nothing here is a promise about rankings
Six things people believe, and what is actually true
Myth against reality, in the order our readers usually raise them.
What you may have heard
What is closer to the truth
Only big blogs can buy links
Anyone can. Single placements start at $1, though cheap links on weak sites do very little.
Google can always tell, so it is pointless
Google says its systems, including SpamBrain, catch much link spam. They do not catch everything, and they cannot be predicted.
More links means more traffic
Links are one signal. A page that answers a real question still needs to exist first.
A high number on a checker means a good site
Metrics like Domain Rating are estimates from tools such as Ahrefs. They describe links, not the quality of the readers.
If a link is nofollow it is useless
Not quite. It can still send a visitor, but it passes less ranking credit. Our placements are dofollow, which is why the policy question matters.
You must hide that you did it
You need no confession on your blog. You do need to be honest with yourself about the risk.
What Google has said, in plain words
Google has published its link spam policy for years. Buying links to pass PageRank is on the list, next to large-scale guest posting campaigns with keyword-stuffed anchors and automated link programs.
In December 2022 it announced a link spam update that leaned on SpamBrain, and in March 2024 it tightened several spam policies again. Neither date marks a cliff for small sites; they show the direction of travel, which is towards ignoring manipulative links rather than punishing every blogger who tried one.
That nuance matters to a hobby blogger. The likelier cost of a poor purchase is wasted money. A manual action is rarer but serious, and Search Console will tell you if one lands. Watch it.
A kinder test before you buy
Ask whether you would be comfortable showing the linking page to a reader of your blog. If the site is a real blog with real posts, you probably would. If it is a page of casino links in three languages, you would not, and the price is irrelevant. If you want a worked example of small orders, see our fifty-dollar plan.
A few more gentle questions
Is it a sin against my readers to buy a link?
That is for your conscience, but nothing in a link order deceives a reader. The article simply points to your page. Be honest in your own writing, and do not place links to products you would not recommend.
Should I tell Google or label it?
Google asks for rel="sponsored" on paid links. Our placements are dofollow, so labelling is not part of the order. Weigh that before you buy, especially if your blog has a clean link profile today.
How many links is too many for a small blog?
There is no magic count. One or two a week to one post, for a couple of months, looks like a blog being noticed. A hundred in a weekend does not look like anything natural.
What do I do if I regret an order?
Placements are permanent, so you cannot ask us to undo one. That is why we suggest ordering two or three first and waiting, rather than spending the whole budget in one go.