Hi, If u linked with irrelevent sites, your adsense income may be dropped drastically because of low SERP. Hence please be careful while selecting links to be placed in your site. ALL THE BEST!!!
I say go ahead, but not to sell links,but to sell text link ADVERTISING It won't matter what the subject is, If some one can prove me wrong,I'd like to see it.
I agree with that, however can somebody show me a reputable source, confirming that Google actually penalizing sites for links to irrelevant sites. "Relevant/irrelevant" sounds like a subjective human opinion, which can be hardly programmed into a computer, and as we all know, Google doesn't do human assessment of sites. So for example, if I run news and history site, I can link to every conceivable subject, related to current news, and I just can't see how some software would determine relevancy of those links.
I totally agree with you, but I've seen some members (here on DP) claiming that they got a penalty, and after removing irrelevant links their site slowly climbed back up. But there could be other reasons for their situation, so I suppose we cannot be sure that irrelevant links have caused the penalty. However, I am still confused if I should sell links or not. Well... better be safe then sorry. I will definitely try to stick to relevant links as much as possible, and do some testing with irrelevant.
It might be caused by "leaking" PR via too many links, not necessarily via "irrelevant" links. In any case, as it was mentioned above, it is good to have "relevant" links just for the reputation of the site, therefore we probably agree that for good business model it is advisable: 1. To run a moderate number of paid links, prefereably to relevant sites. 2. Never link to PR0 sites, unless it is a brand-new publication, whose content is decent and legal. 3 To try to balance new outgoing links with new external links to your site, preferrably from high PR sites. Additions are welcome
I am wondering one thing. So if I have, let's say, 20 outgoing links on my home page. This will apparently leak out some of the PR, and less PR will be transferred to my inner pages? So would this mean that the more outgoing links I have (on index page) my inner pages will rank worse, because of lower PR? This is very important to me because majority of my traffic comes to my inner pages.
I think that google sees directories a bit different, because how to decide what is relevant to a certain directory?
Yes, the pr of your homepage is related to the pr of your inner pages. I would personally stay clear of selling too many links. Stay at one per page, or something - and not on all pages either. This also means (of course) that per link you need to ask more than is usually offered here on DP. I don't think the PR of the site you link to should be a central indicator. The real important deal is: is it trustworthy, and can it be seen as a legitimate link on the page it is on. So it doesn't have to be on topic for the theme of the whole site, but it does have to be on topic for the theme of the page. This will also do the site the link is to more good - so it's a win-win.
This can explain why PR for my inner pages droped by 1 after I added more outgoing links. I've made up my mind. The links are going down.
Consider better linking structure to avoid unnecessary losses of PageRank and sell just a couple of links not give away too much. As for me, best way of balancing is to sell links from a classy site (therefore getting paid more money) and buy links from less classy sites (therefore spending less money) - I keep balance of inbound and outbound links this way.
Selling text links could get you in trouble if every link from your site uses the exact same anchor text. This, it seems would be incredibly easy for google to filter out. If the links are in natural english and are all different...