In response to the action google is taking up against Link Sales , i saw StatCounter which was previously PR10 . Now most of the people would have had bought the link on their site because it was PR10 . ( Currently PR9 ) Why Didnt Mr.Cutts Didnt Take any action against this site for Link Sales ?
Actually he does, just not very often.. Here's his DP profile here As for Statcounter and passing PR, this is well known as has been done to death.
I think it's a very big stupidity to try a penalize sites which are selling links because there are thousands of sites like this and I undestand that webmasters need money.
phpbb.com - PR9 - they are selling text links. they sent me a price list. it was like $1200/month hehe but it may be worth it if it gave you PR8
Google doesn't like manually editing the index for individual sites, they prefer to develop scaleable algorithms to combat the most problematic areas.
You sir, deserve to be flogged. What were you thinking? Spamming a 2 year old thread with some random, generic "SEO" advice should be a bannable offense. Regards, George
Well duh, they own the whole market. They're going to be defensive of any move against them or their profit. Who didn't see that coming? I did. 60% of the internet uses google, so if google basically blacklists any site that doesn't run only google ads, who's going to find out... or care? or even stop using google? If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, did it really happen? EDIT: oh damn i didnt realize this thread was 2 years old, i just saw it at the top of the list. my bad