Ya, 1) You should not buy links any where. Only at adwords. 2) Paid links = Spam Links but Porn, MFA, hacking/cracking/warez/, hate sites= high quality links and index them all. 3) Google = GOD of Internet so just obey what they say!!! WTF?? is google dictating terms here?? Who is google to dictate terms to us. It is our contents , our hard work. We sell paid links , we give it free who are they to tell us? We should sue google to index our websites!! Google is acting too much now. Getting on the nerves of webmasters.. Enough is enough google!! get real! ..:: peace ::.. Jeba
Matt Cutts posts mention GOogle may Implement this. I dont believe this will happen at all, Infact I think Matt Cutts exagerates alot of what he says to seek more attention, just like his trick on April Fools! If it was easily so, many people would use that spam form to add false reports to knock off competition.
*sigh* Are you people making any effort whatsoever to actually READ this thread? It's not a penalty. It's a filter. Reporting a competitor isn't going to do anything except potentially reduce the benefits s/he is getting from paid links. This is not new. Google has been doing this all along where they can. They are simply trying to refine the filters.
These days webmasters get money thrown at them left and right for links. Webmasters of quality sites say ¨Sure, I take some money and add a couple of paid links onto my site, why not!¨. At the same time owners of high quality and high profile sites hire someone who makes them believe that they need their services in order to stay competitive and those people buy them paid links which often have no value whatsoever, at least not when looking at the amount of quality links the site already gets coming in.
Honestly, Minstrel. Your posts are pointless. Can you please share some of your endless wisdom so others (or ¨you people¨ as you say so well) do get a taste of what you have to offer here if you chose to do so?
*BIGGER sigh* and that wouldn't harm the webmaster (Competitor).. because its not PENALTY..its FILTER?? You haven't paid for any link so far.. Now what I do, I search for your links and report them all/most/few as paid link.. then I spend some money and hire some people to report your links as paid, over a time period.. and Google(Who is not wise enough at their own..clearly) Counts some of those links as paid and deduce the benefits you are getting from them.. BUT that wouldn't HARM you as there is no Penalty.. thats filter.
See, that's one of the (many) annoying things about you, Blobmaster. If you had bothered to read the thread, you'd know that I have already shared some of my wisdom in this thread - in painstaking detail. But we both know you never do that. You haven't the patience or the comprehension to bother doing that. You just jump into the middle of any thread with a decent number of replies and start shooting your mouth off in that trademarked Blobmaster way where you type a lot of words (many misspelled or used incorrectly, of course) that say absolutely nothing - like the two posts I've quoted from you so far in this very thread: One said nothing at all; the other said nothing that hasn't been said by every Tom, Dick, and Harry in a million other threads on countless other forums. It's beyond annoying. Either read the damn thread or shut the hell up. Seriously, the extra sig links are not gonna help you. *even BIGGER sigh* The only way reporting a competitor for paid links could "harm" the competitor - even by filtering/discounting the PR value of those links - is if the competitor actually PAID for links. Do you really think Google is dumb enough to just take your word for it?
Like what? ¨Just create good content and webmasters will get you 10s of 1,000s of links automatically?¨
Do you really think that God works for google or google has a got a magic wand or a genie of some kind??
I realize this will be difficult for you to understand, Blobmaster, but READ THE THREAD. If there are words you don't understand, I'll try to explain them to you. Google doesn't need a magic wand or a genie. They have a truckload of very intelligent, highly educated, and highly motivated people working on these issues full time and being handsomely rewarded for their efforts.
If it was painstaking one would have thought I'd have gotten that glossary link no? I'm sorry, Minstrel, but if what you've been sharing is wisdom, I'd like to point out that there is a difference between that & actual knowledge, and to actually share knowledge here one should be willing to share ones source other then saying "it's an industry standard". You keep saying "I've already said that" which is true, but on many levels it seems, that you are the ONLY one saying it. I asked for your opinion or a link, and got an opinion, then I asked solely for a link, and got nothing... I gave a link to Matt Cutt's blog to back up what I said, and you called them "confused" and then went on to say that YOU were using the industry standard, and that Mr Cutt's was wrong I'm sorry, but to me, but your posts are getting pointless. You are winning debates by persistence and using big words. If anyone actually has a point or asks a valid question, you don't bother to reply to that, rather you pull something else and give a subtle cutdown.
What "big words"? I'll be happy to explain them to you as well, if you like. I actually HAVE answered your questions here, Q, as have a few others. To your credit, at least you have read the thread, unlike Blobmaster. The problem in your case is that you are still holding on stubbornly to dictionary definitions and refusing to accept the reality that in any industry or profession certain words and phrases take on specific connotations via a process of accepted use. Don't take my word for it. Go post in any other forum or in the blog of one of the real "masters" and ask about the difference between a filter and a penalty. As I've said, these are not my definitions. And don't come back with answers from the usual clones and lemmings - I'm talking about someone who has actually read and followed and understood how Google does what it does.
Yes Very highly Educated People, who cant see over a million pages of Spam from the same site, unless the story gets dugg and gets the central attraction point of almost every popular webmaster community. Well Educated people who are not able to fix their damn system, broken for more than 2 years...
Matt Cutts keeps asking for input. Have you considered sending him a message or posting a comment on his blog with your advice as to how Google can fix this problem?
You are right, I'm sorry I ever thought of looking to an employee of Google to get my industry standard. I'm sorry that I've used a dictionary to get a definition, and I'm sorry that I ever bothered trying to get a real answer out of you to begin with... I mean, you are a bit contradicting at times. For instance... Why would he bother, the people on Matt Cutt's blog (Including Matt) are not worth listening too, and certainly have no clue about industry standards...
Please tell me more about industry standards., How do you get links, I see that people supporting Matt's posts are not buying links., So how do you get people link to you with a SE friendly Anchor text, Dont say, you add valuable content and people automatically links to you with an SE friendly anchor text