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Oct. 9, 2007 at 8:43am Eastern by Barry Schwartz
The Big Paid Link Debate Roundup
Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank or Rankings on Google from Danny on Sunday has driven a lot of discussion around the blogosphere and SEO industry. I have complied a list of some of the sites that have added additional commentary to Danny's post. I am sure I have missed some; if so, feel free to Sphinn the thread and add a link to your post. Here is the roundup:
- Google PageRank Update & Link Selling, Search Engine Journal
- PageRank Penalties for Selling Text Links, Google Blogoscoped
- Selling Links Can Harm Your Site, Andrew R H Girdwood
- The October 2007 Paid Link Debate, Search Engine Roundtable
- The Paid Links Industry Needs To Go Underground, SearchRank
- Link Sellers Are Punished, Google Confirms, Read/Write Web
- Penalty Confirmed - But I Don't Sell PageRank, Andy Beard
- 7.5 Rules of Selling Links - How Not to Get Penalized, Marketing Pilgrim
- NoFollow is for Blog Spam...no Paid Text Links, wait...Paid Ads...Aww Heck, Just Stop Linking and Let Calacanis Decide the Rankings - Part One, Search Engine Guide
- Link Selling Equals Google Juice Squeeze, WebProNews
- "If You're Gonna Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band", ReveNews
- What is Google doing with PageRank, BlogStorm
- Google Reducing PageRank of Websites That Sell Paid Text Links, Digital Inspiration
- Google Flexes On Page Rank Debate Once Again, Jim Kukral
- How I reversed my Google ranking penalty, David Airey
- Official: Selling Links Can Hurt Your PR or Google Rankings, WebmasterWorld
- PageRank dropped?, Joost de Valk
- 6 links that look like paid ones (but really aren’t), Wiep.net
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