Link Selling? Careful.

viswablr · 07-04-2007, 07:43 AM

Do you know that google has added a complaint box in the webmasters tool where one can complain about anyone selling links?

Bernard · 07-04-2007, 07:51 AM

What are they gonna do? Penalize the entire web? Except for personal pages, I don't think there are many sites left that aren't selling links/advertising.

nks · 07-04-2007, 08:06 AM

Internet is becoming a tough business to work in.....

Ferre · 07-04-2007, 08:33 AM

Google is getting more and more annoying by the day.

Cheeseman1208 · 07-04-2007, 09:19 AM

I doubt they do that. How would they know your link selling?

zokiii · 07-04-2007, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Ferre

Google is getting more and more annoying by the day.

Definitely

bochgoch · 07-04-2007, 01:18 PM

I hate this grass on your rivals attitude that G seems to be promoting ... can't see how it can work!

peter_d · 07-04-2007, 09:06 PM

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Link Selling? Careful.

On the other hand, perhaps Google are sending a signal that purchased links do, in fact, work, and that their algo is having problems detecting them.

exponent · 07-04-2007, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Ferre

Google is getting more and more annoying by the day.

"Do no evil." was the biggest lie Google ever told.

sheena · 07-05-2007, 01:15 AM

It is nice to know that google webmasters is adding complaint box to anyone selling links. If they received complaint, do they penalized or banned the site?

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Originally Posted by viswablr

Do you know that google has added a complaint box in the webmasters tool where one can complain about anyone selling links?

Cornbread · 07-08-2007, 09:34 PM

I have a small Adwords campaign, if I report Google will they penalize themselves? Will Google penalize me for buying links through their Adwords campaign?

harmu.com · 07-08-2007, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Cornbread

I have a small Adwords campaign, if I report Google will they penalize themselves? Will Google penalize me for buying links through their Adwords campaign?

Buying and selling links are different from PPC campaigns!
And, i guess if your outgoing links are related to your content there won't be much problems!

peterko · 07-09-2007, 08:23 AM

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Do you know that google has added a complaint box in the webmasters tool where one can complain about anyone selling links?

It's well known that internet could not be call clean environment, there is big competition between websites. So if Google allows competitors to complain about each other, that doesn't sound like a good idea. That might even look like a battle field.

Have a great day,
Peter

simeonquarrie · 07-09-2007, 12:58 PM

Does this spell the end for traditional legitimate advertising directories?

Cornbread · 07-09-2007, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by harmu.com

Buying and selling links are different from PPC campaigns!

Adwords is still buying links, however you slice it up, it is still buying links, nothing more. I just reported Google for selling links. I am now waiting to see if they ban themselves.

Natural Elements · 07-09-2007, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by viswablr

Do you know that google has added a complaint box in the webmasters tool where one can complain about anyone selling links?

Well I wish to see a webmaster tool where we can complaint about link farm it will be smarter

Affnice · 07-09-2007, 10:36 PM

Maybe google engineer so tired about artificial BL ?

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mhmdkhamis · 07-09-2007, 11:30 PM

yes i reported to spam index

odysseus · 07-10-2007, 12:40 AM

Google can just ignore your site. What can you or I do? Google is like e-God.

viswablr · 07-10-2007, 12:59 AM

Why are we so concerned about Google announcing something? Because, we want a free service from them. When we want a free service from them, we have no other go other than to obey what they dictate.

BTW, Google will never call ADWORDS as link selling, because ADWORDS does not link directly to advertiser's site (Meaning, Google is not "voting" for the sellers site). We can also do the same (rather, similar) by introducing a "nofollow" instruction in the "href" tag.

This is what Google seem to convey:

1) Do you have a genuine need to link to the other site? Go ahead and link. Google will count this link as a vote, and give some promotion to the linked page. (pagerank)

2) You don't have a genuine reason to link to the other site, but still want to sell a link (For redirecting visitors of your site to the other site), go ahead, link but use a "nofollow" instruction, so that Google knows that you don't vote for the other site, but simply want to provide an advertisement.

3) You dont have a genuine reason to link, but selling links simply because you want to boost the page rank of the other site .... Bad ... Google doesn't like this ... Because you are making a mockery of the entire pagerank system ... This is similar to accepting bribe to vote in favor of a particular candidate standing in elections ....