we have all heard general talks about possibilities of getting penalized for buying links, but does anybody know of any real cases of someone getting penalized surely and exactly for buying links?
Think yourself.... How google will know which link is sold or natural.. for me it is next google joke imposible to do it real
that is a completely different question, how will they know which one is natural and which link is not. it has been disscussed many times already on these forums, but my real question is : does google really penalize for paid links (or to be more precise links that he considers to be paid)
Some past experiences has shown sites which actually sell the text links may be penalized. Phrases like "Buy a Link Here" might raise flags with the crawlers. It really is all speculative as nothing has ever been set in stone by Google.
Site can't be penalized for a links from other sites. If some day google introduce a penalty for a paid links, it will be for sites selling links.
there are plenty of evidence ( on this forum even ) that G claims to penalize paid links. what i am trying to find out is it just bluff or G really does something about it
sites can only be penalised for selling links to pass on PR correct? so - on an advertising page selling links, as long as theres no mention of PR, it should be fine? can someone please clarify? Cheers.
Check this out: http://www.v7n.com/forums/v7n-directory-issues/19296-bluefind-get-pr0.html It's happened before this announcement for aggressive link buying (BlueFind Directory).
Google have been penalizing sites for buying and selling links for time, when I 1st started my SEO site I traded a link with this guy where i linked to his site and he put me on this big PR7 newspaper site (which was blaintantly selling links), it got me 5000+ links for my site and within a week or so I felll over 50 places on Google for the phrase I was targeting, I removed the link and started to climb again, when you are into SEO you see Google penalties all of the time, use the same anchor text too many times on directory submissions and you drop, buy site-wides you drop, I have seen authority sites loose PR for selling links also, it works both ways, this is nothing new.
It's not a different question. Linkmanager is right. It's a joke. You can't penalize when you can't tell the difference. I just wanna know what idiot started this rumor so they can be given the verbal abuse they deserve.
Too many links too qucikly can raise a red flag suggesting something must be abnormal. Whether this happens in reality, i don't know.
It looks to be like they got it for link selling, not link buying. But if you go from PR0 to PR7, that's a little suspicious. Say you go from 1000 backlinks from PR1-4 sites then suddenly have hundreds of links from PR6-7 sites. There is a difference between 1) penalizing sites that sell links 2) penalizing sites that climb in PR/backlinks far too fast and 3) sites that buy a few links, rise in PR and are penalized for those few links because google KNOWS they were bought. There's no way they can do #3. How could they possibly do it, it's impossible. I wish someone would illuminate the source of this announcement. Was it Cutts?
i agree that it is silly that google tries (or only claims to try) to penalize for something that they caused themselves - google caused all that links bussiness because they based their ranking on the links popularity. but what we think about their ways doesn't really count it seems. i was more interested of the actual possible penalties someone got when i started this toppic rather than opening the topic that has been already been discussed so many times - guesses and ideas about paid links penalties.