I do not get the Paid Links Deal with Google. Any advertising has a link to the site doing the advertisement so isn't any advertisement considered a paid link? What kind of ads can I sell on my sites? Can I sell text link ads at all of any flavor? I just don't get it. I want to sell text and banner ads on my site but am afraid that anything I do will be considered paid links and I do not want to risk the healthy (usually) levels of traffic I am getting from the Google monster. Any clarification for me would be appreciated.
there is an easy solution, use the rel=nofollow tag and you can sell all the links or ads you want and google won't mind
When doing advertising, you use nofollow tag in links or use javascript, which is not considered as a backlink. You can sell links, but you need to put a nofollow tag to avoid any google paid link penalty.
thanks for the reply - but I have zillions of links on my site in my directory area and none of them have nofollow so how does this factor in? How would google know the difference between a sold link and a link I add in my directory to some site on the net? Thanks to anybody in advance for helping to clear this up for me. I have looked around the web and have read confusing and contradicting information/
They don't figure it out automagically, which is why paid links still WORK. Often times it is due to someone reporting you that it comes out.
i belive you can sale links without nofollow tags also.But it should be 100% in same subject. eg- travel site , yes you can buy link 100& related to travel, but not from computer or IT.
You believe? Great. Too bad that Google wants all links to be editorially given, which paid links aren't, on topic or not.
It means if the writer of a certain piece of content finds a certain page of value to the users, he will link to it without regard to search engines.
if you do national press release (national news papers- trusted sites ) you will get back links without nofollow tags.under google editorial guide , google talk about site build for saleing links.
Press releases have nothing to do with selling links. Stop confusing people who are looking for actual information.
Google penalizes paid links as it "attempts to game search engines" by passing on link juice. Once you add nofollow, it means the backlink doesnt pass any link juice anymore.
Paid Links are Direct links with no nofollow attribute.. The advertisement links are placed with either using nofollow or javascript so that Search Engines ignores it. Thats why the advertisements are not considered as Paid Link.
The more I read the more I get confused. Thanks for all of your input, though. So if I am reading some of you correctly, a link in a directory that does not have a nofollow is considered a paid link by google. So let's say I have a link to Google.com in my directory. Then that would be considered a paid link? I'm not feeling that. That really is the basis for my question in the first place. My question is not "should i use nofollow on a link to make sure that it is not considered a paid link". My question IS "how will a a normal html href link (no nofollow attrib) look any different than a paid href link that also does not have the nofollow attrib?" Does Google have a blacklist of paid link URLs or are those cameras that take the Google Maps street view pics being used to keep an eye on paid links violators? Still confused in Columbus!!!
There is no way for Google to detect all paid links automatically, but that's a story they'd like to keep under wraps. This is also the reason why paid links are still popular because they WORK. No SE bot is going to know you bought that paid review on a website, even if they don't nofollow the link. Once you get reported you might be found out, but that's a different story.