Paying for links Bad?

After reading Matt Cutts blog, I came across this post..

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

I wonder how this is all gonna shake out

 

Jeez, I think thats a stupid idea..

If people want to buy links, google shouldn't care.

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This topic has been discussed before. From what google just started to test their new techniques

You could still buy/sell links though, via PM for examples

 

so what now...lol...any site that sells advertising is going to be hurt in PR?...well...that's just about 90% of the internet...

 

then google should ban itself lol, they sell sponsored links in their searches, along with adwords, well adwords isnt really link buying but advertising lol, well i dont know anymore, its a stupid idea, google thinks it controls the internet

 

just can't win either way...i love google...but I hate them too...oh well, such is life...what are we to do

 

read this thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=301293

 

lol yea, its like girl (a little analogy) sometimes you hate them other times you love 'em, nothing to do. lol, too corny?

 

If they do find a system to penalise sites that sell links for PR then I think people will still buy links for traffic, but it's going to mess up a lot of people, and there will be a lot of people needing to find new income streams.

 

I still don't see how they could prove it....(though...then again they are google...so i guess they wouldn't care if they could prove it...two things to learn in life, the customer is always right...and google is the customer)

I sell links for money...not PR......

my wife thought it was corny... lol

 

yeh Google would be the biggest hypocrites if they did that. Bogus.

 

No one can catch the purchased links, Its goddamn stupid most idea came forward from Google.
I am amazed who is so silly out there.

Please hire me as well, I can also give such stupid ideas.

 

Google only wants to scare people

 

And they usually manage to do it very well. lol

 

This is a hoax, or a late april fools joke, it could never happen. Dont worry about it!

 

that's very very bad idea. it's start of G end . G will finish itself with this decide

 

There is already a HUGE thread about this in the Google section of DP, check it out.

 

Yeah, there are many threads on it.... Bumer really but its totally a hoax!

 

Selling links is a form of advertisement similar to adsense in every possible ways. If Google is going to ban this, I don't know of any other ways to make money other than depending on adsense revenue.

 

I saw this comment from Matt Cutts himself to answer Ash's comment