google and paid links

[trichnosis]

Hi

according to matt cutts , google will catch the paid links in future.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/hidden-links/

what do you think about this?

Can google understand the paid links?

Thanks

[ksgaservices]

I think who cares but then again a lot would disagree with me. I think buying links will be fine for sometime it would be very interesting to see how they plain to go about this as it would affect a lot of directories.

[Mark07]

I think its easy to say that but in fact it would be a hard thing to imply and at the same time it will be interesting to see how webmasters can come up with other ways to get links.

[Johan007]

More importently was an early post by Matt "hidden Links"...

Originally Posted by MattCutts.com

As long as we’re talking about links, this seems like a pretty good opportunity to talk about a simple litmus test for paid links and how to tell if a paid link violates search engines’ quality guidelines. If you want to sell a link, you should at least provide machine-readable disclosure for paid links by making your link in a way that doesn’t affect search engines. There’s a ton of ways to do that. For example, you could make a paid link go through a redirect where the redirect url is robot’ed out using robots.txt. You could also use the rel=nofollow attribute. I’ve said as much many times before, but I wanted to give a heads-up because Google is going to be looking at paid links more closely in the future.

You may or may not agree with the above however...

Originally Posted by MattCutts.com

The other best practice I’d advise is to provide human readable disclosure that a link/review/article is paid. You could put a badge on your site to disclose that some links, posts, or reviews are paid, but including the disclosure on a per-post level would better. Even something as simple as “This is a paid review” fulfills the human-readable aspect of disclosing a paid article. Google’s quality guidelines are more concerned with the machine-readable aspect of disclosing paid links/posts, but the Federal Trade Commission has said that human-readable disclosure is important too:

...is good practice becuase like Google said you should be designing for users not robots!

However if Google detects one paid link using any of the above then it maybe seen to effect an entire link campaign, but will not becuase it could be used to hurt any site. For this reason I can not see how Google will benefit from the above.

[BingoBalls]

Originally Posted by trichnosis

Can google understand the paid links?

Personally I believe not just yet but they possibly can see a pattern in paid links. They are probably looking for the big offenders of link buying & selling and not care about the little guys.

For the most part it is likely those 'purchased links' will not pass any juice instead of a site wide ban.

[ToddW]

Google is going after spam links... 50+ links in the footers of sites, etc. Standard advertising by paid links should be fine IMHO. Don't listen to google and nofollow everyone that's stupid and will totaly screw you on other search engines too.

[trichnosis]

Originally Posted by BingoBalls

Personally I believe not just yet but they possibly can see a pattern in paid links. They are probably looking for the big offenders of link buying & selling and not care about the little guys.

For the most part it is likely those 'purchased links' will not pass any juice instead of a site wide ban.

Originally Posted by ToddW

Google is going after spam links... 50+ links in the footers of sites, etc. Standard advertising by paid links should be fine IMHO. Don't listen to google and nofollow everyone that's stupid and will totaly screw you on other search engines too.

Google might detect paid links depending on some criteria.

one of them is given by ToddW.

Suppose a website is new and is getting a bunch of high quality links, this might raise a flag like this site is buying links.

i dont think nobody can consider that a link paid or not. G is the best search engine on web . I'm sure this but G can not know this too

[peter_d]

google will catch the paid links in future

Define "paid link"

Cash changing hands?
Favor?
Partner?
Quid pro quo arrangement?
Old boys network?

[thePro]

i just have one question: who the hell is matt cutts?

[joe-d]

Originally Posted by thePro

i just have one question: who the hell is matt cutts?

Haha! He's the guy from Google. If you want first hand news about Google you gotta read his blog.

[peter_d]

Matt said "Google is going to be looking at paid links more closely in the future."

People are making all sorts of assumptions about what that means. Much of the rhetoric has been alarmist, to say the least

[shirker]

Originally Posted by peter_d

Matt said "Google is going to be looking at paid links more closely in the future."

People are making all sorts of assumptions about what that means. Much of the rhetoric has been alarmist, to say the least

Maybe you're right, but just by saying so he's making people think twice before buying paid links. And for those making money on paid links, this will be a blow.

[joe-d]

It's gonna be bad for all of us if buying and selling links will be stopped.

[msmary]

No matter what happen pay links are always there.

what to worry about

[Americantruckbuyer]

I dont think this will come in effect for long... as how can one say that the type of the link is paid or reciprocal or sponsored or charitable or partnership or friendly link exchange or something else....


Lets wait and see what happens...

[look4edmund]

Just how could they catch?



Regards,
Edmund Ng

[yorije]

Originally Posted by trichnosis

Hi

according to matt cutts , google will catch the paid links in future.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/hidden-links/

what do you think about this?

Can google understand the paid links?

Thanks

Even if it catches. Google won't be able degrade sites just because they bought links? it may be possible for a relatively new domains/sites. Remember, google keeps track of the domain registered date.