Paid Links/Directories VS Paid Advertisements

Hi, I am a little confused with the concept of paids links & directories. If I was to sell banner ads for my homepages, would that consititute as paid links and/or paid directories? If not, what is the difference between paid links/directories VS paid advertisement banners?

Thanks in advance,

-DigiP

 

To be safe, you should add the nofollow attribute to the links

Matt Cutts says on his blog:
"What if a site wants to buy links purely for visitor click traffic, to build buzz, or to support another site? In that situation, I would use the rel=”nofollow” attribute. The nofollow tag allows a site to add a link that abstains from being an editorial vote. Using nofollow is a safe way to buy links, because it’s a machine-readable way to specify that a link doesn’t have to be counted as a vote by a search engine."

 

To be safe? Is selling banner ads fret upon by search engines?

 

no, maybe I read your last sentence wrong. I meant to use nofollow for paid text links

"what is the difference between paid links/directories VS paid advertisement banners? "

 

ok, use "nofollow" for paid text links. But I should also use "nofollow" for paid ad banners too, right? Since in a way, a paid banner is a graphical paid link?

Thanks in advance for quick response.

-DigiP

 

Graphics or text are same paid links so you should add the nofollow tag on it to be safe.