Google’s anti-link buying and selling policy

Found this article on SEOmoz, IMHO it says a lot.

Google has demanded webmasters hide paid links through the use of code manipulation like 302 redirects, JavaScript, robots.txt and nofollows. This goes against their Webmaster Guidelines which state:

--Make pages for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking."

To read whole article:
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/the-best-policy-for-googles-antilink-buying-and-selling-policy

 

The rules are really made to give benefit to Google. At the time they implemented that rule they thought that is in their best interest. And now things have changed so, they want to impose new rules.

They are the market leader and the new hard and fast rule is the new one all the time.

Do you need traffic from Google? Then follow the directives or else they ban you.

any web site that exist on the net is to help google make more money.

 

I really dont get the logic of this - Google quite clearly say - dont buy links for PageRank or to game the search engines - then give a ton of ways to do that including rel="nofollow"

How anyone can confuse that with make websites for users ant not search engines is beyond me.

These disclosure methods are just more code - like html - nothing to do with making sites for search engines

The problem is that people read or interpret what they "want" to be true - rather than just accept the clearly defined "rules" at face value.

Is it sooo difficult

 

I see nofollow being used on everything but paid links - the exact opposite of what they're hoping will happen.

Google needs a ride on the clue train.

 

I agree - it's not like everyone went like "huh - ok then" - but that is another matter entirely