It's matt cutts apparently. That guys says a lot of stuff. Or rather his mouth moves a lot, but you don't actually learn anything.
This is just not true, don't follow such advices. Prove me that this is true, and I will buy sitewides for my competitors and they will drop. Cmon people. Nobody can't be penalized for inbound links, you can be penalized only for outbound links.
oh, yes, in the past there were famous cases of smart fellows getting rid of ones competitors in that way. people did that and it worked. but as far as i heard the end the story was that big global companies even suffered from that (to the point they were droped from google) and the matter was brought the google admin and some measures were taken supposedly. i read about those stories couple of years ago.
I do know of a company that I did some work for whose site was heavily penalized by G for purchasing excessive numbers of site-wide links, all with the same text in the hyperlinks. They had over 50,000 paid links. At one time, they were in the top 10 for several very competitive keywords. When they were penalized, the site dropped out of G for more than a year. Google reinstated the site after they dropped the paid links, filed several reinclusion requests and finally through a contact they made at G. In one of those very rare cases, G did acknowledge that the site was penalized for excessive paid links. This type of penalty has actually been occurring for a few years, but like many things that G does, it is very randomly applied. Because a manual penalty was applied to the site, I suspect that they were originally reported by a competitor and someone at G flagged the site.
for buying links it will not be good move to penalise , if so one can buy links for his competitors and bring the sufferings for them. It will be fair if G punish who sells link
If a link is bought on a relevant site, and if it is a in-content link, on the home page or another page, it will be very hard to detect as a paid link.
yes, this post is very much connected to my questions, but here i was more interesrested in a real case stories rather than general opinions on the subject, thanks
Hello Susannice. I would state categorically that inbound links cannot hurt your site. There may exist very rare cases of something called a google hand-job, were a site is flagged by human intervention (not by the algo), but I suspect that rather than lowering the juice from the inbound sites the hand-job smashs the sites trust rank.