Recent content by Zosavvy

Buying links has been (and will always be) a sure-fire way to get penalised by Google. In the short-term, sure, go ahead. But, in the long-term, Google will catch you. Just as they did with thousands of other sites (if not millions) during 2013, 14 and 15. If your content was on your homepage...

Were the posts hosted on the homepage or were the pages just linked on your homepage? If the content was placed purely on your homepage, you may want to check GSC, fetch and render your site and go from there. PS - Surely you understand that buying links isn't going to benefit you in the long-run?

If I think I understand what you're saying then I suppose my argument would be that Google will always treat external links as preferential ranking factors due to their very nature. An internal link is under your control - you can point as many links as you like (without appearing spammy) to a...