crayonhost

if this is for real wow....

bad news for link sellers and brokers

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/

this is a blog by matt cutts a senior employee of Google.

hope it helps

cheers

hasan_889

Old news ... we have already seen the consequence after yesterday's pr update.

anyway, thanks for the link.

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wwe9112

Nice to see that they are doing something bout paid links. Now us smaller people stand a chance at getting better ranks.

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theSiteSupport.net

Exactly, Google's new tactics are almost like trying to take cheats out of a video game...

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jumpenjuhosaphat

It's not necessarily bad news for link sellers. If what you are selling is PR, then yes, this is bad news for you...But, if you are selling reviews, which means that you will have as many, if not more, rejections than acceptances, then you will be fine. Offer a quality product, and you will have customers.

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Richard Joseph

what concerns me is the line between advertising and paid links , how can we the user tell and can google see the difference.. and what if google cant

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camp185

I agree. I had one site that seemed to get downgraded, and I believe it was because I had a site wide link to it from another site I own. Obviously didn't buy it from me. Relavancy could be an issue. I really think they shouldn't penalize for this. If they are really concerned about it maybe downgrade the value of the backlink, not penalize the site that is getting them. Obviously if the site has money to buy massive amounts of link they should have some value or else they are just throwing money into the wind.

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dreamsubmitting

Yaa this is will create problems for link brockers...

can you also see it in Google Webmasters Tool..

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OldWelshGuy

Google do not have to know the difference between paid links and bought PR. THEY have said, if you buy a link, get it nofollowed or get ready to face the consequence!

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Sticky

I dont thnk that is was your sitewide link causing the problem unless it wasn't on a relevant site, but still that would not really cause a downgrade. I have sitewide links on many of my sites and it does nothing but help.

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marcusa007

My concept has always been to buy links for traffic only. Where else can you pay just a few bucks and get targeted traffic to your products/services? In the real world almost impossible. If a site passes some of the green juice and GOOGLE does not mind I see it as a bonus. I don't think going after the PR is an option anyone should choose.

I am in charge of a website that was not on the radar for the number one keyword when I took over. After a year I had it up to page 2 and we hit page rank 5. The competing # websites are 1,160,000,000. After the PR update we went to a PR 4 and our SERP is 8th and 10th (depending on the day). As you can see it is not the main factor. It comes automatically (naturally also know as organically) as you work on all of your SEO and you move up through the ranks.

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eronkid

now we get even to those cheater

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