Buying Paid Links? You're a spammer!

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Hmm.. that's shitty. He's talking about that G will look at paid links more closely 'in the future'. I think this isn't ever since tomorrow, but more a longterm proces which will take a few years. But yes, in theory there black now.
 
Think about it. Buying links means that you're not investing money in Google PPC (which, out of sheer technicality, is buying links). Of course they don't want you to gain quality traffic or page ranking through link purchasing!
 
Haha yeah that could be true. It's wicked retarded.

And I just read some of the comments on cutts' blog... everyone is ripping him a new one. Some of them are hilarious. In any case though, I don't really care about this cause text links aren't my thing, but this may affect some people.
 
Completely fucked up

so many ways this can be abused

1. buy a paid link for a competitor site that ranked above yours and report it

2. Through multiple IP's send dozens of complaint reports

3. Create a 'paid link farm' and put all your competitor links there, then report it to google.
 
If Google goes after paid links then they should just create a cutoff:

If you weren't indexed by 2007 then you will never get indexed.
 
This is further pushing people to using blogs for making money instead of static sites. Blogs are a better linkbait due to more fresh content.

I can only imagine how difficult it will be for google to manually review "paid link" sites. They are already not using "Advertisers" and "Buy a Link" in their pages. How can they possibly tell if "Partner Links" is paid.. or.. uhh, partners?

This is really a bad move by google. What about paid inclusion directories? I'm paying for a link there? But I am actually paying the service to review my link, not to list it. LOL.

As Albert said, this can be seriously gamed too.
 
I agree completely, Dave!

The problem? Thats right, most searchers aren't webmasters. So the searchers won't care about your sites and will continue to give google more and more $.
 
Yeah, but Scott right now most people only care about the relevance of their search. Yahoo / Microsoft just need to improve their relevancy and Google loses market ground.

Basically it's an all out battle of who has the smartest mathemeticians working for them. :D
 
This is fucking stupid, how are paid links any different than buying classified ads?

So am I to believe that my sponsors will get hurt by purchasing ad space from me?

This is why I am a proponent of gaming the search engines, who the fuck told them their rules are the ones that need to be followed.
 
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