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
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.
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.
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...
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
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.
I dont see how they can, I think they punish reciprocal links, i think the rest is all propaganda rubbish
Yes they do. But, of course they can not do all the links as thousands new paid links come to life everyday.
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...
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.
> 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).