Do you think Google penalizes/filters sites that offer paid advertising, but do not use the nofollow attribute on the links that point to their advertisers?
Yes, it's called selling paid text links. Google has stated in the guidelines you must use the nofollow attribute for all advertisements that have absolute URLs. No ifs... ands... or buts... about it.
lol that sounds like a father disciplining his teenage son - well guess what the son is gonna do, he's not gonna listen lol seriously google thinks they can control all aspects of how websites can sell links, i say, screw google!
I agree, it is a mater-slave relationship, but if you rely on search as your main source of traffic, you must conform to Google or change your marketing approach to Web 2.0. The latter is obviously the best option cause you will get the SEO anyways by using Web 2.0, but that is not an easy transition for for many site owners.
I am referring to a SERP penalty, not PR. What do you think about a SERP penalty for not using no follows on paid advertisers?
If you want good rankings from Google you have to kiss Google's butt. I think that's why a lot more people are looking at Web 2.0. They don't want to be owned by the search engines anymore. But then some big player might come along to dominate Web 2.0 and the whole master-slave relationship would start all over again. Hmmm. I wonder if it's really possible to dominate 2.0?
I think obvious we got two points: 1. Link still very very very important in google magic arithmetic 2. Google magic arithmetic is not good enough, even cannot detect link type and have to threaten people to compromise on them guideline.
When Google come to know about those text selling links, it 100% panelized by it. It's not the right way to do seo...
Google doesn't force anybody to use its service.. if people don't agree to Google's quality guidelines they can do whatever they want with their website but shouldn't complain when their rankings drop. They're not trying to control the internet, they just want to keep their search results relevant
well sadly im not an ass kisser lol - i already have a lot of great results on google anyway, and even on one of my blogs where i flammed on google lol, still doing great that's me, i don't agree with their service and i do what i want, they can take away my PR, i haven't really used that system for months and my SERPs jump up and down so I don't complain no point in complaining anyway but if you do look at what they are doing, they are trying to control the aspects of what webmasters can do with outgoing links on their sites, not controlling the internet but trying to control something that only the owners of the site should have control over
Google come to know about the paid links, as it is placed on each web page, with out nofollow, I don't think so, from only one page Google can assumes that link as Paid link.
Google can only block links from VERY serious sites selling links but obviously not from minor sellers
Yeah, ive been a casualty of it, but they also penalise without any paid links connection, i had a blog that got pr removed, then removed from index completely, i have no idea why, was and still is a mystery.
I've read about a Pr 7 site removed from Google completely for paid links and got back after removing them and re-consideration. And again, Google doesn't try to control webmasters, you can do whatever you like with your site and so can Google, it's as simple as that
selling links is google NOs. it will cause PR down, also if identified by google linked website will also take no benifit from link. but still there are ways you can add links without knowing google as they are sold. one of them is only add links related, and dont mention links selling like words, create some other site/s to sell links. or try DP to sell
Google cannot penalize all sites who selling links,since i know tons of people who still buys/sell links.