I nearly missed this one, but check out this adsense unit and see whats for sale. It seems that selling links from ranked .gov domains is perfectly fine as long as your paying your adwords premiums. I hope the Google employee that approved that ad gets fired.
Can you provide a link? EDIT: Internet being a jerk. Didn't see image. Do now. All I can say is wow...
Just another example of Google's double standards. They will penalize you for selling links but they sure don't have a problem taking your money to advertise the fact.
i could not have put it better myself. google has so many double standards, corporations get away with all kinds and remain in the index because google does not want to bring attention to itself by going to court with them. but they do what they can to the struggling webmasters because we can just about pay our hosting fee's in some cases, so google wont need to worrie about any letters from any of our lawyers.
It hard to have a link to .gov site . . . I think google is on business deals! google focus more on their business thats why they allow that ads!
not true, anyone can link to a .gov site how can you not see that google is choosing who can sell links and who cant, how many threads have you seen about sites being dropped because they sold links on their site. yet www.isellpagerank.com has 8 pages listed in googles index, has a PR4 i can believe this site is indexed, look at its keywords - high search engine ranking, page rank, search engine optimization, buy text link, website promotion internet marketing, web site link popularity, buy one way links, increase pagerank, web site link, search engine, improve your page rank, effective internet marketing, one way links, site link, search engine ranking, link popularity, site link popularity, website page, website promotion, text link, web text link, site rank, buy links, effective marketing, internet marketing, web site popularity, internet marketing services, increase rank, link services, page rank improvement, internet marketing services, efficient link building services, link building services, effective link building, link building, web site popularity, high ranking search engine, web site if that is not keyword stuffing then i dont know what is.
With all these "Google Says" thread, I really hope that there won't be a day when the capital G stands for Google and not God, and what we are suppose to read and obey is the Adsense TOS and not the 10 Commandments.
this sucks, i cant believe all the directorys that got hit last update. and then google has adwords ads selling links.
Yup! Look at the paid links on this PR 9 site... PR9 Before the update.. JTK http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup Generic Viagra & Generic Viagra Cialis Links... WOW!! But I guess paid membership makes it ok...??? Right Google? Anyone got a Grand I can borrow? They are Paid Links no matter how you chop it up? Google created this monster now they're all Deer in the head lights...