Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google

[Kenny]

Here it is folks!

Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google

More and more, I've been seeing people wondering if they've lost traffic on Google because they were detected to be selling paid links. However, Google's generally never penalized sites for link selling. If spotted, in most cases all Google would do is prevent links from a site or pages in a site from passing PageRank. Now that's changing. If you sell links, Google might indeed penalize your site plus drop the PageRank score that shows for it.... More

Cy

 

[weblord]

but but?
im guilty of this
i'll quit doing this maybe next time they give me higher pr

 

[SEO Montreal]

There's a couple of ways around it, and also ways to protect yourself.
http://seo2.0.onreact.com/20-ways-to-get-legit-paid-links-without-getting-penalized-by-google
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-protect-your-site-from-google-if-you-sell-text-links

 

[Pointer]

nah, I dont belive:P

 

[Sameh]

nah, I dont belive:P

Don't kid with Google

 

[Pointer]

Don't kid with Google

Paid links will exist to the end of world or end of Google :hehe:

 

[Peter]

pointer sites (especially blog farms) have already been penalized for selling links. It has made a dramatic affect on the people they linked too as well as their own rankings.

Don't forget not too long ago Matt Cutts and Google requested people to report sites that sell links on their site. They claimed at the time that it was purely a fact finding exercise but seems a bit too much of a coincidence that sites have been getting penalized.

 

[Pointer]

pointer sites (especially blog farms) have already been penalized for selling links. It has made a dramatic affect on the people they linked too as well as their own rankings.

Don't forget not too long ago Matt Cutts and Google requested people to report sites that sell links on their site. They claimed at the time that it was purely a fact finding exercise but seems a bit too much of a coincidence that sites have been getting penalized.

Ofcourse,
Farms and Spamns should be penalized! But not normal sites. Huge amount of people live from selling links...and its ethical enought imo.

 

[Peter]

And what concern should Google have on how people make money?

Most people buy links to because they know they can gain a better PR from links from high PR sites (hence why PR tends to make a difference on the price).

Essentially it could be seen as people trying to buy their way into the rankings.

Also I did not mean farms as such I meant more network of blogs. There blog networks that sell links and each blogger gets a % of the income generated (the blogger has little control over the links shown on their blog).

 

[Gregory]

A source of revenue.

 

[Zurvan]

Most people buy links to because they know they can gain a better PR from links from high PR sites (hence why PR tends to make a difference on the price).

Google has said over and over and over that buying links for the purpose of passing link juice is against their terms of service, and that paid links should not (and if they detect them, will not) pass PR.

Buying links for advertising = fine
Buying links for PR = not good

 

[Sameh]

Google has said over and over and over that buying links for the purpose of passing link juice is against their terms of service, and that paid links should not (and if they detect them, will not) pass PR.

Buying links for advertising = fine
Buying links for PR = not good

How Google determine the difference?

 

[Peter]

How Google determine the difference?

Well there will be several. For example if the subject of the linked site does not match the subject of the linking site would be a flag (especially if a few such links existed and the linking site is of a high PR).

Some sites openly sell links (for example on forums like this) so it would not be difficult for Google too compile a list.

Also Google now accept reports for link selling. If you read Matt Cutts blog (a Google engineer) you will have seen a post stating the fact a few months ago.

 

[Kenny]

How Google determine the difference?

One way would be to monitor the forums...
Links for Sale. Funny huh?

Edit: You beat me again, Peter :hehe:

 

[Sameh]

One way would be to monitor the forums...
Links for Sale. Funny huh?

Not funny .. it's hard

And will left behind many other websites still selling Links for PR.

You might see this later (just like DMOZ domains) :

I'm selling links on PR6 / PR7 / PR8 websites .. PM me for links

 

[Kelli]

There is an easy way to tell the difference between a link seller for ads and a link seller for PR and that is that they almost always say "PR X site" in their ad.

A person or company interested in purchasing a link on a website for advertising purposes cares about the sites traffic ... how much the site has and how much they can send them. What the RP rank is of the site, isn't really relevant to the ad buyer.

What do I care if a site is PR1 or PR9? If they can send me 50,000 unique clicks that I'm interested in purchasing, then I don't really care what their Google PR is.

 

[happyhappy]

So what about websites you own that have nothing in common but link to your other sites via your website to give them more exposure? Guess you can hurt yourself by promoting your own websites with in your network. Just another ploy by google to try to better themselves LOL the monkeys are at it again

 

[simplyg123]

How Google determine the difference?

not a pro on the subject but inst there some kind of code that makes selling links legit, no follow or something? I might be way off :td:

 

[happyhappy]

What authority said it was not legit?

not a pro on the subject but inst there some kind of code that makes selling links legit, no follow or something? I might be way off :td:

 

[Barrucadu]

not a pro on the subject but inst there some kind of code that makes selling links legit, no follow or something? I might be way off :td:

<a href="http://www.domain.com" rel="nofollow">anchor text</a>

rel="nofollow" means that search engines follow the link (it's a misleading name...), but don't count the page the link was on in their algorithm (ie, no PR).