No, and we would recommend firing any agency that does. Bought links breach Google's guidelines directly and put your entire domain at risk of a manual penalty — a short-term ranking bump that reliably reverses, sometimes taking your legitimate rankings down with it. We earn placements by producing content and data genuinely worth citing. It is slower to show up in a report, and it does not evaporate the next time Google runs a core algorithm update.
No, and we would recommend firing any agency that does. Bought links breach Google’s guidelines directly and put your entire domain at risk of a manual penalty — a short-term ranking bump that reliably reverses, sometimes taking your legitimate rankings down with it. We earn placements by producing content and data genuinely worth citing. It is slower to show up in a report, and it does not evaporate the next time Google runs a core algorithm update.