Do blogs with the "NoFollow" attribute get penalised by Google for selling links? There is a lot of difference views on this issue and would like to confirm with DP members.
If the links you sell is purely for advertisement purpose (tagged with noFollow attribute), then it is ok
It's hard to say but depend upon conditions. As all we know links in blogs comments are also no follow and google does not penalize any blog for these links. But selling is selling that's does not matter whether it's nofollow or dofollow. Because Google also index no Follow links, and i hope that it wud punish you for link marketing. So one thing is very important here this is where the link has been placed................. I think you have one chance to sell links from your Blog and this is from comments. If your blog is much popular then you cud charge to accept links via blog comments. Otherwise it is too risky...................... I wanna listen other members views also....................
Google never penalize for paid links that are with no follow tag. [Not sure what will happen is the no follow links point to sites that are banned or bad sites]
Thanks for the help guys. Anyone with similar cases? Would really like to know about this before I decide to even sell "nofollow" links
hmm...you might want to check on it. My site got penalized for selling links and advertisements....they were not no-follow though...and now I make sure that all my links are no-follow
They shouldn't penalize for selling links anyway. A webmaster has the right to earn money with his website outside of Google.
Which is what the nofollow instruction is for - google intention was to penalise links sold to increase google pagerank, not links for traffic or advertising purposes.
But who will pay for nofollow-links? You have to provide a lot of traffic to make people pay for this. Normally you sell links when having a high PR and dofollow.
try to avoid advertising on your site that you actually sell text links. common mistake on "click here to place an ad" type of pages.
It's 100% right. Selling link on each and every page without nofollow attribute may effect a website...
You're all wrong. Yahoo Directory sells links and they have never been penalized. Google has two full time staffers that browse through DigitalPoint and other places where links are sold. When someone says they are "selling a PR 4 link, PM for url", or whatever - they send a PM for the url, just like everyone else. Then they manual adjust the toolbar PR for that site since you obviously sold the link purely to influence the pagerank algorithm. However, your actual pagerank is not affected, that's why you will see no difference in your sites SERP's. Google knows that webmasters sell links based off of what the toolbar pagerank shows, so they manual change it to 0. Nobody has access (outside of Google) to the real pagerank number that is used in the SERP algorithm, so that isn't changed. The reason Yahoo gets away with selling links, is because they never advertise the pagerank of the link. They charge a fee to be included in their directory. Many of the sites that pay for inclusion, are paying for that link juice and authority, but since Yahoo makes no mention of the pagerank, it isn't a blatant attempt to influence Google's pagerank algorithm. Similarly, other high traffic sites will sell links based on traffic. They aren't penalized by Google either. If you are going to sell a link on your site, sell it for a reason other than to influence Google's pagerank algorithm.
if you "nofollow" the links it should be ok to sell the links because it won't have any affect on PR via back linking because they are set to "nofollow" and not messing with the organic rankings, which is why Goggle penalise people. Example John Chow.com