Im scared after reading this abt Google. HELP ME PLZ!!

Just was reading a blog and came across this article,
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/10/google-reducing-pagerank-of-websites.html



Im not a SEO personnel ,but i have one website which has PR3 ,but it ranks #1 for all of its keywords in almost all of the search engines.
It has always remained on either 1st or 2nd or 3rd Frontpage Search Results for its keywords. Its kinda very famous and i earn a lot of clients via it.
Some days before,one of my client paid me around 500$ to place his site link on all of my 5 site footers.

I just placed it directly like this;

Sponsored by <a href="SITE URL">SITE URL</a>



Now after reading this above blog post,im a bit scared,if im going to be hanged or what..
As i said,im not a SEO and so i dont have mind,how Search Engines work.

I need all of your helping words please..

Plz guide me up..

 

If you are worried about it then take the advert off.

If you are going for paid links then placing it in the footer is the worst place... you need to place it out of range of the "Google eye"...

 

Official word from Google about paid links.

Use the rel="nofollow" attribute on your paid links.

 

Exactly, what i need to put in the code for this ???


Im just looking for solutions,as i cant remove the links,since the client has paid for it.

 

Your link would be like this:

Sponsored by <a href="SITE URL" rel="nofollow">SITE URL</a>

 

Are you kidding, the guy probably didn't pay $500 for a nofollow link.
He will get really angry if you do that.

 

It is not only a technical matter, because your client probably paid for a BL from your PR3 website... adding the nofollow would remove that benefit for him...

Just my 2 cents.

Patrice

 

But anyway, how google can know if it's a paid link or not?

 

Yes im also not able to understand,how will Google know,what is paid and what is free or what is personal link ??
How ??

And the client has no knowledge abt it,since he is a great fan of mine after getting me always on Top Google Results.
So he just wants a place in my heart (a.k.a my site)

 

Thats half their battle and how exactly Google decides what is paid or not is anyones guess.

Paid links on a lot of sites can be very easily spotted if there is a pattern. Having something titled sponsored links is a good starting point.

 

Ultimately, might is right

 

They can't tell if it's a paid link or not. However, if you're found linking to an irrelevant site (when I say "irrelevant", I mean a site covering a different topic than yours. Eg. yours is about cars and his is about SEO), you'll get your ass kicked. Adding a rel="nofollow" should keep you safe.

 

Someone has an idea about the categories google use? Do they use the same categories as DMOZ?

Patrice