Do you believe Google bans paid links?

Discussion in 'Google' started by himanuzo, Apr 9, 2008.

  1. #1
    If Google bans the paid links, www.Text-Link-Ads.com should lose their business several years ago. But according to Alexa.com, it is one of top 100,000. And it still make $$$ as broker of selling links.

    Please check:
    http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/Text-Link-Ads.com

    Text-Link-Ads.com has 300 million of hits daily. If Google really bans the paid links, it should lose the traffic and the members several years ago.

    You can join Text-Link-Ads.com and see linking pricelist to find out more....

    Besides Text-Link-Ads.com, other links brokers also survive...e.g www.textlinkbrokers.com.

    What do you think about it? If you still believe Google BANS the paid links, please explain your opinion... if you believe Google DOES NOT bans the paid links, please explain your opinion....

    Other members of this forum will listen your opinion...

    Note: For more information about 'buying and selling links' guidelines, please visit to http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66736&topic=8524
     
    himanuzo, Apr 9, 2008 IP
  2. used_cisco

    used_cisco Peon

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    #2
    Google doesnt ban link selling. They just penalize the sellers for not labeling sponsered links appropriately to their guidelines.

    Selling links is still a good way to promote your business on relevant sites. Google can't catch all links that were bought, its impossible.

    Also, not many people are somewhat SEO savy enough to even hear about the penalty or pay any attention to it.
     
    used_cisco, Apr 9, 2008 IP
  3. for_si2003

    for_si2003 Banned

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    #3
    Google only "tries" to make people beleive that their system is fair. The actual story looks otherwise after we see text-link-ads.com.

    It will be economically unviable to manually verify the link selling.
     
    for_si2003, Apr 9, 2008 IP
  4. AtomicBump

    AtomicBump Peon

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    I think they do, if you promote something illegal like warez, or a scam.

    I wish they'd get rid of those click here you got free crap ads though...

    And the classmates.com those piss me off...

    The classmates one poped up once and i got a virus...
     
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  5. Gavilles

    Gavilles Peon

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    Can I have a link of their guidelines, thanks

    Gavilles
     
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  6. suneil

    suneil Banned

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    And the way I see it, google penalizes you only if you use link ads to pass PR. If it's intended for human traffic, theres no problem
     
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  7. angilina

    angilina Notable Member

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    #7
    Google don't like paid links if nofollow tag is not used.
     
    angilina, Apr 10, 2008 IP
  8. ValueMD.com

    ValueMD.com Peon

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    #8
    How do they know if it's paid link vs a link exchange with another site? Or are both penalized?
     
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  9. zexy

    zexy Guest

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    #9
    Google should just buy TLA and move on ;)
    What do you think?
     
    zexy, Apr 10, 2008 IP
  10. wisdomtool

    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    #10
    That would cause those who were banned by Adsense another chance to make money.

     
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  11. himanuzo

    himanuzo Well-Known Member

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    #11
    Yeah, how does Google's system detect a link as paid link or not?
     
    himanuzo, Apr 10, 2008 IP
  12. kingofsanda

    kingofsanda Peon

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    #12
    It's impossible for google to catch all the people who have purchased links.
    However, they detect many links when people use the term "sponsored links"
    next to their paid links.
     
    kingofsanda, Apr 10, 2008 IP
  13. coletrickle

    coletrickle Peon

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    #13
    I dont see how they can, I think they punish reciprocal links, i think the rest is all propaganda rubbish
     
    coletrickle, Apr 10, 2008 IP
  14. maldives

    maldives Prominent Member

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    #14
    Yes they do. But, of course they can not do all the links as thousands new paid links come to life everyday.
     
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  15. ashisharora_83

    ashisharora_83 Peon

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    #15
    google dont have any problem in paid links if you are using nofollow tags for your outgoing links. google dont want people to pass the PR by means of paid links.

    Thanks...
     
    ashisharora_83, Apr 10, 2008 IP
  16. redspace

    redspace Peon

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    #16
    I don't think google dislike paid link. if you put nofollow then it is okay. but those paid link service is promoting a service that against the google rules because only google is not considering nofollow tag link in their PR evaluation. So basically those paid link service which only allow dofollow link is doing business by promoting services that are against the rules of other businesses.
     
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  17. casinouk

    casinouk Peon

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    #17
    yes Google banned it, if the amount of links pointing to particular websites is too high.
     
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  18. chaitanya.seo

    chaitanya.seo Banned

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    #18
    IMO. It's only banned the site which is doing link selling work.
     
    chaitanya.seo, Apr 11, 2008 IP
  19. SEOBusiness

    SEOBusiness Well-Known Member

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    #19
    I have no idea with this question,I heard many ws get banned for the reason of paid links.
     
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  20. kaijohannkursch

    kaijohannkursch Peon

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    #20
    > Google doesnt ban link selling. They just penalize the sellers for not labeling sponsered links appropriately to their guidelines.

    Nonsense. On the contrary, the only way to keep your site not-penalized is avoiding texts that state you are selling links ("Sponsored links", "Paying links"...). Even Text-Link-Ads sent an email on this matter. Sites were being penalized and links weren't taken into account. PR drops were very discussed some months ago. Now people selling links have to hide this from visitors, who wins with this? Nobody. Just Google playing Internet's police with a really stupid move that serves only its own interest (no paid links except MINE). "Don't be evil"?... they went evil long time ago.

    I say this out of experience. My sites dropped PR for selling links and they recovered (fully or partially) after I "hid" the links. The thing is this is automated, so you can hide the "Sponsored links" text just by encoding it with some encode/decode javascript function, as long as it is not readable (I use base64).
     
    kaijohannkursch, Apr 11, 2008 IP