Google's Misinformation about Link Buying

I really agree with that. dont believe in anything other said till got an official confirm from google itself.

 

We are all the time harping about how Google has cut our feathers. But think about it. Have you ever been charged by the search engines for their search results ? Aren't you getting the results entirely free and aren't you being included in their index for free ? It is after all their site and they are free to frame whatever rules they like.

 

Google could easily punish link buyers by devaluing all the links to their site that they feel are paid links, or even by penalizing them further because the believe that the site owner most likely bought more undiscovered paid links.

 

That article was the best take on things I have heard so far! Bravo!

 

"Google could easily punish link buyers by devaluing all the links to their site that they feel are paid links, or even by penalizing them further because the believe that the site owner most likely bought more undiscovered paid links." - It would not make sense for them to punish the buyers because it is too easy to commit a fraud to use against competition. I could buy a couple of cheap links for my competitor site and then report those same links. With paid links they would at least have some kind of proof, advertising threads, advertising pages, etc...

 

yeah but why would google give a crap about punishing a few people unfairly

they have never really given a crap before, unless it was in the media and some how made them look bad

 

It would not end up being just a few people, once my site got knocked out of the index because of this I would lose a large portion of my market share to my competitors unless I got them removed.

I can see the ads now, "Get your competitors removed from G's index for $99", you would probably be able to advertise the service through Adsense!

 

I think that the bigger picture comes from the fact that the "LINK" craze may be coming to an end. I have a site, only 3 weeks old, 3 links from sites other than search engines and directores and already on the front page on Google out of 3,160,000 results. I have better things to do with my time than hunt out a seemingly pointless massive link structure.

Lets face it, whenever Joe seo, et al, find a way around one of the most recently released "Ranking" sure fire winners, the goal posts are narrowed down or moved again by the BIG guns of search.

The links end is Nigh I tell you

 

yeah right some term no one ever searches for

I would agree that links are being used less, there are lots of sites ranking well these days that only have a handful of links

 

Totally agree with you on that.

 

This makes google bowling even easier that's for sure.

 

You are absolutely right. As a matter of fact all the websites except wikipedia, google and porn related ones should be completely obliterated. Then we should all pay Google 1 buck for each time we visit a porn site (who will want to use wikipedia and Google anyway).

You foul webmasters, kneel before Google and be thankful for Adsense because it gives you 20 cents a day (if you're lucky). This is the future, so obey to mighty Google

 

Nah, not at all, thats the way my competitors appear to work it and flog their seo "SKILLS" to the unsuspecting
I would not class "Property in England for sale" an unused search term as you "Yeah Righted"
We all know there are sites showing results for their work on "Giraffes in Morrocco" and "Eskimo in the Sahara".

Forgot to add the site is 3rd on Yahoos first page of results also, he he.......LOL

 

I keep coming back to two thoughts:

1. If Google makes link buying significantly more difficult, this will drive advertiser revenue to AdWords.

2. If Google makes link selling significantly more difficult, this will drive web publishers to AdSense.

 

I completely agree fellow Coloradan.

 

But it doesn´t matter at all...

You always can exchange links and make good backlinking for free...

I rarely buy links (except the sig links

And today, with all the Web 2.0 revolution we can really get a bunch of backlinks to our sites for free.

SO it doesn´t matter.

You have to make your own bussiness/sites run and never let that google changes affects you... never.

There is always a way to improve, with or without Google approval

 

iam pretty sure this whole crackdown is just to combate high paying/high ranking directories such as yahoo's service and others suck as business.com. Dont stress.

 

Google could also punish every site that uses the letter G on the page, or in the title. Google could build a small rocket and put the first java programmer on the moon. There's a huge difference between what Google could do and what they do, or have plans for. This is all wild speculation, unless you have a reason to suspect that Google wants to punish anybody who's ever bought a link? They seem to have plans to devalue paid links, but that's a very different thing from punishing a large fraction of the web sites in their index.

 

Link buying will NOT be ended by Google but it will be reduced for reasons that are very clear. Here's something to ponder....Ever wonder why they give away their web analytics service and encourage the use of the Google toolbar? Even Gmail is monetized so there has to be a profit generating reason. The traffic data gathered by these features will weigh more going forward on your SERP rankings. Buying DoubleClick was a first step...watch as it unfolds.

 

As a business Google is taking steps to protect the integrity of search engine results. Buying links can artificially modify results to place crappy sites on top. Visitors go to these sites, find nothing good there and then blame Google for poor display of results. The visitors stop using the service and then advertisers stop using Adwords because there are no visitors, then Adsense will not have sites to display for webmasters to make money.