New York Times and Time magazine are buying paid links

[Blogmaster]

Here is the story


http://searchfeature.com/blog/new-yo...ng-paid-links/

Digg and Sphinn it:

http://digg.com/programming/New_York...ing_paid_links

http://sphinn.com/story/52874

[Secret Squirrel]

What wrong with the NY Time and Time magazine buying links?

[Blogmaster]

Not saying that anything is wrong with it, just pointing out that everybody does it.

[indigobean2003]

The sites selling the links can get their sites bitch slapped by Google.
But the writer's point is that everyone is doing it.

[zodiac]

there are people buying links?

[atulperx]

hahaha yes these are people buying link but only those who don't care for result because they have already to much traffic directly and organic way . They don't have small webmaster pages this is New York Times and Time magazine which is well known .

[zexy]

Originally Posted by zodiac

there are people buying links?

It's not officially confirmed. Just a myth...

[Blogmaster]

Originally Posted by indigobean2003

The sites selling the links can get their sites bitch slapped by Google.
But the writer's point is that everyone is doing it.

Google is losing this battle.

[IEmailer.com]

Originally Posted by Blogmaster

Google is losing this battle.

Hope they wont ban the other sites selling links after all

[sofunny]

This is sicken for google.

[shamus]

I don't know why everyone gets so shady around link buying...sure, it's frowned upon. But if you want to survive in this business, then I'm quite sure that at one point or another 9/10 people have purchased a link (and that might be in the form of a blog post, a review on a blog, etc....).

It's necessary most of the time, especially in e-commerce. If it only takes a few links to get ahead of a competitor, damn right I'm going to do whatever I have to do! (Just do it smartly, right?!)