So, I've read Google is really cracking down on people that buy links to increase their PR. Well, I just bought $60 worth of links, and I don't want to be completely rejected by Google because I bought links. Is Google really unindexing sites or lowering their PR (I don't think that's the correct term, but whatever) because of the owners buying links? I'm just kind of worried.
$60 won't get you very far when it comes to buying links. Your rankings or indexing are not determined by the presence or absence of a few links. I wouldn't worry about those links. Plus, those links may help your site with Yahoo or MSN, which place weight differently on links.
IMO, it's hard for Google to determine which links is bought or not. But surely one thing, if you built incoming links too rapidly so easy for them to catch you. Built link slowly from related topics with authority sites would be a better way
How can Google tell the difference between those who exchange links and those who pay for them? I can't think of a way. There is little Google can do to stop it. You overestimate their power.
Don't believe the lies on matt cutt's blog. For some reason google takes an official stance on swapping or buying links because they say it corrupts their pr and ranking system which is something I find odd. If a webmaster is spending countless hours adding fresh and unique content every day, making their site easy to navigate for users, and providing visitors with related links they would probably be interested in why should they be punished? They should be rewarded with higher rankings because they are providing everything the user needs while the big sites like amazon and ebay barely give you the information you need.
Post count relates to experiance? I really don't believe matt cutts when he says link swapping/buying is going to affect your rankings. Since the big daddy mess the only sites have remained stable are the ones where I have done reciprocal linking while my article based sites (one way links) dropped from #8 to #54.
I got in patient last year a brought some links for one of my sites and got a punished by google I lost all my page rank on my link pages - I then removed all my paid for links then my PR reappeared next pr update . Dont buy links Its Not Bull you will get punished Sorry Paul
No but in this case it makes us wonder if you've created an alternate login to DP because despite the bold claims you're worried that if Matt/Google/et al find out whose behind your statements there will be a negative outcome.
I see... well I'm hearing a lot of different things, well, mainly one-sided arguments, but phealey said it hurt him. I wish I could talk to one of the creators of Google... my stepmoms ex-husband knows one of the creators personally, but I think that's a bit of a stretch, don't you think?
It's the other way around, for now : I also wrote an interesting article about a website selling links for PR.
What makes you so sure that removing your links was the reason your PR reappeared? I have sites that were dropped and reappeared without any changes. Are you certain it was not mere coincidence?
I have been into link purchasing last year and I was doing it big time. ne fine day I woke up to see my hundreds of sites just wiped away from the golge just like that (I think it was manual ban). Also like phealey, for a few sites once the links were removed in next update PR returned back and they were back in index, but for the rest, it was untimely death for most of my web business at that time.
Google is in the business of refering people to sites they want to see. Google uses incoming links (among other things) to determine which sites people want to see. Buying links corrupts the data. Those links are there because someone paid money, not because someone thought the site was worth seeing. Corrupt data equals less satisfaction by Google's users equals eventual corporate death. D@mn right Google hates link buying and swaping and will do anything they can to remove those things from their data. How effective they are at it is an open question, but I cannot get Google to send folks to my Country Code TLD site because of all the links. There are over 200 countries -- I need to have all those links, but there it is.
How can Google tell whether a link that I got was bought or genuine? I don't think that would be too easy.
hello Kaabi. just make sure that the links you get are placed on related sites (sites that have relevant content as yours) and also make sure that if you buy multiple links, make them different from each other (by altering their anchor texts). IMO, you shouldn't have any problems with Google after this.
agree that Google guys might be considering some technique to punish sites linked to from what was formerly called "link farms" and now is called "free link directories", where you still pay something to get listed. it's an artificial popularity IMHO. I was never buying links, though intended few times to . nice comment on ebay and amazon