When you post a new thread asking to buy links do NOT post the URL of your site. If that site is in your signature link uncheck the little box that says "show your forum signature" to hide it. This way you are substantially less likely to get hit with a Google penalty. Please + rep me if you found this helpful
No one is going to rep you because this is not true. Google is penalizing due to the way the websites are made such as those using the PHPdirectory scripts or others that sell links. Google isn't going to crawl message boards to try to investigate those selling $2 links when they can use scripts that are known to be used to sell them and knock out 100k in one shot.
Google is a big and rich enough company that they can do both. Now it's not guaranteed that you will be penalized, but it is just another precaution you should take.
It's not like Google's editors hang out here . I'm sure they pay attention to everything across the web specially in the SEO community. They are just dying to spank sites that are buying links.
Dear Google, MelogKnaj has been buying links! ahhhh Now I bet they will penalize your website and your PR will drop to zero of every site you own.
Here are a few more tips: 1. By telling your niche you will avoid to receive 1 billion unrelated offers. 2. Avoid asking for +rep, it's against the rules of DP
So having phpLD installed on my site as my "resource directory" could actually be hurting me?? I am only linking to quality sites and there aren't a lot of outbound links. Simply having it installed could drop me down?