Not just you Dan...
For some reason these "SEO" pros seem to think that buying some magic links will shoot them to the top of the SERPs.....
As soon as you challenge that approach, another "SEO" pro will list a number of justifications for buying links and will tell us how some unknown marketer got to #1 by buying links.....
IMO....a waste of money and time that could be better spent.....building a real business...

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