Want to kill your competition in the SERPs?

I never thought I'd see the day that this would work, but I've tested it and it now does. Do you want to kill your competition in the SERPs? Find a few sites that are obviously selling text links and it would be easy for Google to determine. Purchase a text link with the exact anchor of the keyword you're competing for, FOR YOUR COMPETITOR.

Yes, Google is penalizing for purchased links. They're not discounting, they're penalizing. So purchase for your competitors.

Don't believe me? That's fine. Not sure but want to find out? Spend $5.00 and see for yourself.

 

Im willing to review it and if i like it i will pay 5 bucks too so you get a review and payed if it's something to use

 

UMMMMmmmmmm...... WTF?

Proof?

 

I'd be willing to spend $100 to zap Wikipedia for one term that they really don't deserve to rank for ... not sure if it would work, though.

 

This is nonsense.

 

by theory it SHOULD work, but google just isn't ever gonna penalize "paid links" (for very long at least). theres no way for them to tell whats free and whats not.

 

Tested how? Tested how much?

Buying text links and your rankings dropping at about the same time is far from what could be called "testing". What are you basing your claim on?

-Michael

 

Is it? What proof do you have that it is nonsense? Let's take a step back and think about this.

Google is being manipulated. Everyone knows this, including them. There wouldn't be a huge market for text links if they weren't able to be manipulated. In Google's theory, the best sites should naturally percolate to the top over time if their algorithms are working as desired. The sites trying to manipulate their way to the top should be penalized.

Google CAN determine some paid links because they are so unnatural. Or, take one look at the paid links forum on this site and you'll see 100 people a day saying, "Buy paid links on www.myurl.com" and stick their url right into the post. If you're Google, isn't the statistical probability that if you penalize sites linked on that site thereafter pretty high that you're getting people who are trying to manipulate the SERPs? I mean, who in their right mind would buy a link for their competitor? Sure, there might be a little collateral damage, but all in all, the probability is high that they'll hit people who they feel should be hit.

Now take it one step further. Google has some brilliant mathameticians on staff. If they think you've purchased links on one site, they can then employ math based upon such things as graph theory where they check other sites for your links that may employ means that look unnatural to their algorithm. If you flag multiple gates, then bam, you're penalized because THEN the probability is VERY high they're getting their man.

Is this correct? I don't know. I think the OP simplifies things quite a bit. But if Google is getting desperate about paid links manipulating their results, I could see it happen.

 

If Google only penalized the ability of passing link juice from the selling text links site while no other harms will be done to the site who received it, then your method is useless.

 

Exactly, The website is NOT penalized for selling links, neither is the website purchasing really, it just devalues the link.

 

As long as everyone believes this, then Google is safe to do otherwise.

If there's one thing I've learned, it is to always go against the conventional wisdom.

 

Has anyone actually tried this? Successfully?

 

It's an interesting theory.

If anyone here who is adament that there is no way this works wants to prove it and has a keyword ranked high, let me know and we'll test it. I'll buy $25.00 worth of links and try to hose you. If you know it won't hurt you, then you get $25.00 of free links, so what's the harm?

 

I have a site that can be tested on. PM'ing you, don't give out the URL so we know yours is the only linkage.

-Michael

 

Enjoy the free links mvandemar because thats all i can see happening out of this.

 

If this "buy link to hose your competitor" is true, Google will actually encouraging selling/buying links instead of reducing it, because everyone will buy links to hose their competitors for sure and link sales spike to the roof like there is no tomorrow.

Devalue: Yes, smart move.
Detecting: Probably, working on it.
Penalizing: Will never happen and plain stupid.

 

I dont think it will work.
Otherwise everyone would be doing it to each other.
I would guess they would just de-value the link.

 

Unfortunately the one he provided isn't a good test because his keywords were his domain name. Anyone else got one?

 

So far the reasons people are giving for why this SHOULDN'T work sound just like the "google bowling doesn't work" reasons.

It may work or it may not but, "I can't control who links to me" or "If this were real then everyone would be doing it" are not valid arguments.

I'm glad someone is actually going to try a small test.

 

Even if this "bowling with paid links" works (and I'm not saying it does or doesn't), it probably wouldn't work on a site with such high authority like Wikipedia.