Totally not the case here,this is an internet marketing forum, we dont just stop doing things here, the only solution to this is stop spider/bot access to the B/S/T section, its troublesome anyway.
The basic argument will be "when is a paid link for traffic, and when is it for SEO" You may buy a link for traffic and get only seo benefits - that makes it money down the drain but should you be penalised? You may buy it for SEO but get traffic - does that make it legit? I'm sure they're thinking through all the issues but it seems as nutty as when they said that sites on the same hosting server would be penalised when they link to each other, even if they have separate owners - causing problems for site owners in small countries with limited hosting options.
meh, google is just trying to monopolize the ad services, so whatever. I say let them try, they will burn and fail.
ok, but this is only when you sell links, right? You can still post your website in your post, can't you? If for example, you are letting people download a freebie or selling your site. The system would be to inefficient for it to work.
which are those few big site? May be i should start making fake thread selling link from about.com, cj.com or something like that and see
aren't backlinks still backlinks, you will just have to get more to remain at the same pr imo. Plus you only get de-indexed in google. You still have indexes in yahoo, msn you shoudl be fine. Also, yahoo charges 299 for their directory service. What happens with Yahoo's PR, does it go down to 0? Then everyone would just disregard PR, and use something else. That is obvious.
I guess the answer is to sell/buy links for traffic only and make the links nofollow then G wont see them as links for PR and they wont be ... Not making me happy, I certainly make more from link sales than I do from adsense! Lisa
backlinks are backlinks but their value is degraded so where you need 2k links for a pr4 you will need 12k. and no im not telling the names of sites beind de-indexed.
Well it is good idea to keep out guests out from BST section because they contact through MSN or Yahoo.
I'm pleased to know that some people like my idea/suggestion, I'm also not all that surprised that not everyone does. Thank you all for your input (both good & bad). I guess all that awaits is for this thread to either get buried in the archives and forgotten, or for Shawn to implement it
Buying and selling links might just harm the rakings if google detects it, so can you make a forum for the buy sell section, that dose not allowed unregistered and bots to enter. this way we can avoid the problems of penalties, from google. this will defenitely not help the forum, as there will be no indexing from google for those threads, but then it will sure help the members a lot. let's see what others have to say on it!
lol that's bad! will they tell the google but then that is not the major concern, these things can't be caried off manually, if the google bot is stopped, i guess we are safe! yes, perhaps, but then adsense bot is a seperate one, still i think we have to stop all the bots there, i exctaly don't know this underground forum! but then perhaps it is a similar one, but then as i said, it won't help the forum, no ads, no threads indexed, but then it will help it's members a lot! perhaps making the forum a paid to use will be a good idea!
This would be especially usefor for the link sales section... I would have to agree with this idea! (I don't want google to index my demo pages)
actually it will help in a lot of ways! first of all we carry on transaction by pm, to make us safe from google, but then we don't have proof of the transaction, and can lead us to a loss by cheat! perhaps a forum like that will help us to put up a lot of links, and carry out everything on forum, that will have some nice records, right!