"Report paid links" in webmasters tools

[bibel]

Have you noticed this in webmasters tools ? Google tries to facilitate reporting people who buy links.

Website selling links:

Website buying links:

Additional details:

Are you links buyers worried ?

[sachin410]

Read about it on Google webmaster blog.

Time to start reporting your competitors .

[dannet]

I cant understand Google, what will happen with websites like text-links-ads dot com, directories and the rest of this industry now that "the god of internet" have decided that its not good? :/

[zexy]

That's just ridiculous!
It's like fighting against the Internet piracy. Remember how successful RIAA was?

But don't waste time, go report your competition

[jezza chan]

As much as i luv Google, they can kiss my ass, buying links is a great source of traffic and is very beneficial to all webmasters.

Links that are purchased are great for advertising and traffic purposes, but aren't useful for PageRank calculations. Buying or selling links to manipulate results and deceive search engines violates our guidelines.

So how do they know who is and who isn't buying links to build traffic and not to "manipulate results and deceive search engines"

What happens if we want to buy links to increase our traffic? Are they going to penalize us because we want to increase traffic to our website/s ?

Seriously, Google, kiss my webmaster ass. ( who's with me )

[toby]

that sucks! and how could new site goes on and become the authority if no buying link is allowed?

[bibel]

Here's the best competitor annihilation technique :

- make a payed directory
- add all your competitor sites in that directory for free
- report them for buying links
- (optional) ask for huge amounts of money for a listing, so that google can see how much they payed, and what sort of link buying maniacs they are

Success is guaranteed. E-book coming soon !

[ProgMania]

Originally Posted by jezza chan

As much as i luv Google, they can kiss my ass, buying links is a great source of traffic and is very beneficial to all webmasters.



So how do they know who is and who isn't buying links to build traffic and not to "manipulate results and deceive search engines"

What happens if we want to buy links to increase our traffic? Are they going to penalize us because we want to increase traffic to our website/s ?

Seriously, Google, kiss my webmaster ass. ( who's with me )

Thats completely true. Buying links are good resources for getting traffic.

[longhand]

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/paidlinks?hl=en


It's clear, Google wanna stop the link building via directories.

[Velocity]

Nope, you are wrong.
This has nothing to do with web directories

This is what Matt Cutts said:

Q: Hey, as long as we’re talking about directories, can you talk about the role of directories, some of whom charge for a reviewer to evaluate them?
A: I’ll try to give a few rules of thumb to think about when looking at a directory. When considering submitting to a directory, I’d ask questions like:
- Does the directory reject urls? If every url passes a review, the directory gets closer to just a list of links or a free-for-all link site.
- What is the quality of urls in the directory? Suppose a site rejects 25% of submissions, but the urls that are accepted/listed are still quite low-quality or spammy. That doesn’t speak well to the quality of the directory.
- If there is a fee, what’s the purpose of the fee? For a high-quality directory, the fee is primarily for the time/effort for someone to do a genuine evaluation of a url or site.

Those are a few factors I’d consider. If you put on your user hat and ask “Does this seem like a high-quality directory to me?” you can usually get a pretty good sense as well, or ask a few friends for their take on a particular directory.

[longhand]

Thanks, sounds good, but i'm not sure it's not just a blabla (sorry Matt) to avoid loosing popularity by this new system when simply can report each website who selling links. (and all we know 99% on the net PAID links = paid directory links)
Btw. can you give the source of this discussion or it's from Matt's blog?

[trichnosis]

i'm not worried because i'm buying links for traffic. my aim is not effecting the search engines or page rank

[Mr_Kumar]

I agree with @Velocity. It is nothing to do with directories.

Directories are supposed to have sites. And someone can maintain quality without charging $$, but some needs $$ to maintain quality. And they deserve it, as they are giving internet index.

Also, see on the report page of google. It says google already have algo to detect paid links. And If you see the links and effect of paid directory links, it is positive.

Getting Paid Directory link from quality directory is worth investment, but taking paid link from paid crap directory is not bad or you can say it as you are buying link from FFA.

[qazu]

It is very difficult decieding what is a paid link. DP allows links in your sig, some people sell that. This obviously amounts to multiple paid links. But it also amounts to a barter on DPs side links for posts. Will google devalue sig links from forums in the same way as links for articles aren't as effective anymore? Probably. But the keyword is 'devalue' - links in articles still work but on a much smaller scale.

[BigBadWolf]

F#$% Google! Bring on some new SE competition, Google is getting on my nerves already... Do this, Do that, Don't do this, Don't do that

[qwestcommunications]

Lets face it, link buying will always go on because links are one of the most importnat means to increase traffic. Backlinks to a site will always have a great significance.

[littlebobek]

I think it's time to report all links in Yahoo Directory

Update: Just reported eBay for paid link on Yahoo Directory

[MeetHere]

Originally Posted by longhand

Btw. can you give the source of this discussion or it's from Matt's blog?

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

[empservices]

In that case Google should be banned from google as they are buying links from me.

Every time I display a google adsense ad, that means that google has bought a link from me.

[bibel]

Originally Posted by littlebobek

I think it's time to report all links in Yahoo Directory

Update: Just reported eBay for paid link on Yahoo Directory

Indeed ... all the sites in yahoo directory should be banned. I'm gonna report them all