Google is dropping all Keywords to those sites that have sold text links on them

It appears That out of my many sites that google has decided to send all the keywords off the map for those sites that have sold text links on them.

I have several Sites that I sell text links on and they have disappeared for all the keywords they were ranked in.

I also have several that I do not sell text links on and they have not changed.

Google got me. Have they got anyone else yet?

Though I say this. I have say 2 blogspot blogs which I sell links on and they have not changed in the ranking at all in fact traffic has increased way above average today.. Taking down other sites but blogspot????

Any Though anyone?

 

I would recommend you stop selling links immediately, cancel all the links you sold already and give refunds then ask for re-inclusion in 6-12 months.

 

Why would you recommend that someone do that?

 

Less competition? That would be good right?

 

Wow...LMAO. less competition....

Just email G's support, or read TOS...
My thoughts are if the links aren't for yahoo, msn, etc. G doesn't have a problem... No porn I think too...

ECS Dave

 

Thats a good one

 

The sites did not get dropped all together. They are still number 1 if you type in the name of the site. For all of them. nonthing else.. all other keywords gone like the wind

 

Yeah no porn of course.. I have read the rules. But I have some sites which link to each other only. ( only sites that I own ) and there ranking are still the same. It was weird I was checking the keywords for my sites. figuring out which ones to work on next and then all of the ones that had text link sold on them were gone.

 

Seriously, I think this is happening to many sites and it is just an algorithm shake-up. I don't think google is penalizing any sites based on them 'thinking' you are selling links.

I still see some sites on page 1 for very competitve keywords that are very clearly offering links for sale.

If you got back over a year ago in the forum you will see the same thing happening on a regular basis and usually the sites come back in a few days to a few weeks.

 

Yeah at first I though that too. I have had massive drops before in the serps but never at such a scale as this before. I figured maybe they looked at what adsense is on what pages and went from there. Manually changing from publishers to publisher..

 

I don't think they have that kind of resources set aside. They can't even put a dent in the MFA problem so I doubt they are doing any manual reviews. It is just too hard (too much trouble) to try and prove that sites are selling links. I think unless you are very obvious about it (and maybe even is you are, see: maxlinks.org look at the right column, they rank number 5 for the very competitive term 'web directory') you won't get punished for it.

 

How did they caught you ? Did you ask yourself this question ... their algorithm still way far from detecting paid links .. so let us assume that it is a human revision followed by penalty .. do you think this is the proper penalty for somebody who sells link ? difinitly not .. if you read on search engine land this week you will find an article about Stanford Daily website which was dropped from PR9 to PR7 cause it was selling links and this penalty will reduce the price of links on their website ..
1 month before, Google has penalized some paid directories by hindering them from ranking for their own names, and after that most people knew they are penalized and stopped adding site to them
So dropping your website ranking for some keywords and keep it ranking for its name and keep its PR is definitely not paid link penalty, go and dig for another reason or wait more time may be it is just a glitch.

 

It's been in the market for a long time, someone could be could because of "report paid link" or may be via some of their algo.

I guess if you still want to sell links you have to put nofollow in the outgoing links.

 

I didn't mean to come off that you hadn't read the rules...
They are many, the G's lawyers are quite verbose.
Just that you might have missed one...
But, it may be as jg123 says, just a small shake-up at the G...

ECS Dave

 

Yeah I just though it was weird all the sites I have sold links on right now got bounced and the ones that have not did not change..

But I will wait and see what happeneds.. But it will hurt me $$ wise the longer they stay out of the rightful places in the number 1 spot for those keywords

 

The bottom line for me is that gooogle is not going to start punishing websites for what they 'think' they might be doing. That opens up a nasty can of worms for them and I don't think they want to take a chance at upsetting the webmaster community because we are the ones that host their ad network, adsense and use their paid ad program that is making them very rich, adwords.

At worst they might be trying to figure out how to devalue links which they think have been obtained too easily meaning paid or exchanged.

 

Yeah I will wait and see for sure. .but it the wait is going to cost me $$.
Yeah I followed then penalizing some people sad really. Well I guess I will stop selling link to those sites for now and maybe just add links to my other sites. See what happens there

 

yeah I will send an email out to everyone to see if they care if I add the nofollow to there links. I know some use it for its PR to help with theres.

But I will say 1/2 of the sites are similar sites, of the same topic

 

Thousands of webmasters are monetizing their websites through links ads, using no follow means killing the link selling market and eventually more Google monopoly, webmasters will be Google's slaves ... DONT try to do anything BUT through Google:
You want to monetize your website use Google Adsense and nothing else
You want traffic, use adwords
You want payment get away use Google Pay

I don't know if the US government will take some action against this very soon like what they have done in the past with Microsoft ..

 

Yeah I guess we wait and see what happens and it goes somewhat back to normal..