Google Penalizing Sites Involved in Link Sales - Search Engine Land Report

Very interesting, great post.

 

1. Having paid links to bad neighbourhoods
2. Trying to game my search engine rankings with black hat SEO

Well now... if thats the case then i suppose im guilty
as i HAD ... gambling, pharmacy, adult, catagories that could have triggered this filter or whatever...

Now heres what i didnt get but am catching on...

One of my BRAND spanking NEW directories came back on that tool as BLOG SPAM...
the only problem is that IT HAS NO Backlinks

thx
malcolm

 

The mob mastr could do it internally and not pass PR to other sites from links or give their F*N script to every one so, we can sell contextual ads.

 

If the lowering of PR is in fact due to paid links, Google is doing a very poor job of it. I've seen high PR sites blatantly selling links using Pagerank as the selling point that still have the same PR.

Also sites with no outbound links drop and the webmaster doesnt even know what PR is.

 

it's a grate article and resources thank you for sharing.

 

You had found a interesting news. Anyway i will look over all the news

 

I'm wondering if they are working through their list.

All they'd have to do is set up an account on TLA and the like and look at their list of participating websites. I'm sure Google is also looking at the proxied url that they use too and figure that into their algorithm, which then shows every site that references it.

They probably have quite a list of domains to go through. 10's of thousands probably.

 

I think google will just focus on those High PR (7-10) first. I dont think they will monitor and keep penalize all sites though.

 

I think you're right. There's way too many small, relatively insignificant sites that may fall into their criteria for a taking part in "schemes".

 

You can. But Google built a search engine from scratch, and they can not list your spammy site if they please. It goes both ways you know.

 

The only difference is that most of us are still just Guppies, while Google has become a huge Shark.

I'm afraid that if we want to play in the big fish tank with Google, then we'll have to learn to swim by their rules or get eaten.


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Strangely, now I'm hungry.

 

Selling links is a way to get some income similar to Adsense Ads.
But I'm sure Google won't penalize those sites using with their own ad system.

Google is limiting the number of block ads to 3, so using large ad formats (160x600) that would be 15 link ads.
So IMO could be reasonable not penalize "pages" (not sites) with less than 15 outbound links, and penalize "pages" with more than 15 outbound links.