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04-15-2007, 11:38 AM
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Comming bad days for link sellers!
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/hidden-links/
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.
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.
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Pay link for traffic with "nofollow" attribute will be ok but all pay links without "nofollow" attribute will probably be red flagged.
Bottom line is this:
Google is going to be looking at paid links more closely in the future
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04-15-2007, 10:54 PM
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Wow, that is lethal stuff.
So no more link buying whatsover?
Do you think this will be enforced?
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04-24-2007, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Azam.biz
Wow, that is lethal stuff.
So no more link buying whatsover?
Do you think this will be enforced?
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It is difficult to say anything because it has been announced and it is still in test phase.
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04-24-2007, 10:54 AM
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well they only be able to enforce it, if it's obvious, because you can't see them having all the links checked manualy.
Seriously it just looks like they are trying to get more of the advertising revenu back to adwords.
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05-07-2007, 10:17 AM
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Link Building will finished in coming future..
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07-12-2007, 09:06 AM
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One can't certainly say at this point that whether links will be out of business in the future.
It has become a business for most for selling backlinks nowadays and generating income source which is devaluing the real sense of link building as the financially strong webmasters can easily acquire a lot of them.
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07-12-2007, 10:50 PM
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As far as I can tell, Google is doing this to promote their Adsense. Google wants administrators to like to sites that they think are useful, not sites that are willing to pay for a link so they will rank higher.
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08-17-2007, 09:17 PM
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If that is the case then what about the paid directories?
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09-01-2007, 06:07 AM
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I wonder if the sites that offer space for sponsored post (with links) will get a penalty.....I hope not
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