Alot of forums have already banned this as its agaisnt googles rules. Your not supposed to use your pr as a way to increase sales etc. Everyone who lists a site for sale or link sale always lists their pr so their breaking googles gay rules are they not?
This forum (a well known webdesign forum) has banned people listing their pr when selling text links and also when selling websites as it is agaisnt googles terms The point is google says your not allowed to use your pr as a way to profit in these kind of way or something. So yes someone can check your pr but your not supposed to blatantly say your pr knowing it will gain you more money Yeah i guess if you was totally thick and cannot read.
Sites with PR aint sold to gain profit it shows the buyer that you have taken care of the domain and built backlinks etc (spent time on it) Lets ban people that sell sites based on monthly unique hits because your using stats to help you profit from your site.
Why would a forum have to ban people??? Thats insane Everyone here knows the official Google TOS and since if it was enforced it would be on a personal level, a forum doesn't need to get on its high horse and ban these people. Thats like saying you need to ban people who ask for a site review but have hidden text
I dont mean ban people i mean ban people from listing the pr. Oh so i guess you have never seen a thread entitled PR7 link for sale or PR5 link for sale or website blahblah uniqes pr4 for sale? This is what google dosent want and they have listed it in their terms so obviously its agaisnt google rules..... I dont care to much anyway but listing sites like this for sale and selling links based on the pr is agaisnt google rules...I thought everyone hear obeyed google like god and would know this.
So Google creates something to judge sites "trustability" or "longevity" with but you aren't able to say anything about it? Merely mentioning your site is a PR4 in a thread selling a text link advertisement is not the same thing as actually selling a PR4 link.
F*$ sake, why are you trying to twist it? Listing threads like PR7 LINK FOR SALEwould be agaisnt google rules. As the person is blatantly listing the pr to increase the links value. Saying your pr in a thread isnt agaisnt the rules im not saying it is if you could fu*king read you would see im not saying that.
I dont like google and dont give a shiot about google rules, if you stumble accross a few of my threads youll see that. The reason of this thread was that everyone else on this forum seems to adore google yet they dont even know a simple rule like that. I couldnt care less if DP use this rule and i couldnt care less if you post pr links like that. My point is why do people rip on people clicking their own adsense ads because its agaisnt googles almighty rules when so many people break googles rules in this way yet nobody says shiot. Peace
I understand where you're coming from, but it's not worth it from the forum's perspective in my opinion, to be the one to enforce Google's intent or become the "peer policing" avenue you're speaking about ... Personally, I'd much rather buy or exchange links from a relevant site that has proven traffic and hence the potential to push traffic to me. For those who are doing things that Google doesn't like ... let 'em. If that's what they're doing, justice will be served in good time from Google and other sites not in violation will be all the better for it; pick your battles wisely.
You can't compare the two TOS's as they aren't even in the same ballpark...Are you saying that there is no difference between the person that clicks on their own ads all day long basically stealing money from advertisers and someone who says they own a PR5 site???
I know what you are saying but I doubt it will happen. The largest site that lets people list their PR is eBay and I dont see them changing anytime soon either.
yfs1 ofcourse i dont consider them the same but its still one of googles rules and so many posts here come across as all of googles rules should be followed. Obviously google dosent seem to enforce this rule much but rules are rules so whether its fraudulent clicks or not their still rules.
Matt Cutts' Blog does address this very issue actually; he even goes on to reference Google Webmaster Guidelines and refers to buying links for PR value only to be considered a linking scheme. However, this still does not constitute a social or professional obligation on the part of DigitalPoint to ban these types of threads - give 'em the rope they so apparently desire IMO; further, the ability to enforce it would be an administrative nightmare I'd guess.
True im not to bothered whether dp do or not. Just that webmaster-talk.com do and the reason they give is to stop the risk of the users sites being put in jeopardy of being penalized, this is a nice reason and shows they care and shows some professionality on their part.