Originally Posted by ayzo

I am 100% positive that the buying links and 301 redirects won't work for google bowling but you are right about link spam but it's very difficult to do. The only time I have seen it work was on new domains less than 6 months old, but even then they only go down a few notches in the serps or just head to the sandbox but come back even stronger. I tried it back in November against a ringtone site and payday loan site, it took a little over 10,000 trackbacks each to knock them out but they just came back in December with even better rankings. Other people seem to have the same results when they try and link spam a competitor out of the index.