I don't think it's the ones that pay for your links that will report you. Competing webmasters or SEO guys more likely. Other than that, though: good advice.
are google really taking that micht ime and trouble to stop punish sites selling links?. I dont see the point myself. I sell blog posts......so? .......................What about link farms, bidding and paid directories.
I do a lot of website admin and one of my sites was a 7 and went to a 4, I believe it has a lot to do with paid links, I do know that google is coming down hard on link farms right now
yep...and to top it up I have just received a message from a customer of mine requesting to delete all his reviews and links because his sites have all be penalized by Google. Lol...what a xmas this is gonna be. Google kicking ass big time.
This is a fallacy. If it were such then you could have him pay to point to his competitors and tank them. Why don't you get him to pay you to do that if they believe it, but it's nonsense. Just think how easy it would be to tank your nearest competitors if it were true? Blech.
Google will surely continue to punish those who get in to paid advertising / TLA and if you are in to it (it may be the cause), you better make some changes on your affiliate link title especially if you have a link to TLA.
Google is getting touch on everything period. Its just whether its the right way to go about it or not. Will.
How does the customer know that the one way links to his site is what he is being punished for. I would find that hard to believe. People have a valid point about competitors putting your link on a site to get it punished. That would be crazy. I wonder if Google has ever been sued by anybody because they were punished unjustly.
Yeah, just think how easy it would be to knock a competitor out, if you were so inclined... buy half-a-dozen links... report website via Google Webmaster Console... there it goes...
On one of my sites, my page rank went down and it was that way for about 4 days. After the 4th day, my pagerank went back up. And this has happen on a couple of my sites.
Detecting a higher serp move around than usual (before anyone starts - i know they update all the time, this time jumps are higher)
My PR4 blog which I do not use for post-sales/links sales but just link my own sites from it went to PR0 3 days back. Another of my firend's blog went down from PR5 to 3.
I can think of two answers for that : 1. PPP, link farms, bidding and paid directories are screwing SERPs so bad that they decided to punish them. Google is still the best search engine and they, no doubt, want to stay that way. 2. PPP might also become a significant threat for Google Adsense.