Link Building > Link Building: Paid Links
Dec. 31, 2007 at 10:18am by Vanessa Fox
The 2007 Paid Links War, In Review
The paid links debate is back, this time about whether Google wants all links in a paid post to have a nofollow attribute. Below, a look at the latest round, plus a recap of this year's "War On Paid Links" by Google and where the other search engines stand on...
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Dec. 3, 2007 at 8:52am by Barry Schwartz
Google Answers More Questions On Paid Links
Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank from the Google Webmaster Central blog answers more questions about the recent paid link regulations Google has set forth for their index. The main reason Google is going after paid links is because of "inaccuracies" in results and "inequities" in ranking...
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Nov. 23, 2007 at 8:33am by Barry Schwartz
Google Adds "Selling Links" For PageRank To Link Schemes Page
Google Blogoscoped reports Google has updated one of their help pages to include the words "selling links" when discussing link schemes. On the Why should I report paid links to Google? page, Google changed the document to add the words "selling links" through the page. One line now reads:...
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Oct. 29, 2007 at 8:44am by Barry Schwartz
Google Updates PageRank Again? Adjusts Paid Link Penalty?
Andy Beard reports that Google seems to have made their third PageRank update this month. This one appears to have reversed some of the downgrades in PageRank seen by some sites. We know that some of the PageRank changes were due to paid link selling, as we reported was happening...
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Oct. 24, 2007 at 9:39am by Barry Schwartz
Google's PageRank Update Goes After Paid Links?
Seems like there is a PageRank update taking place now that seems to be impacting sites that sell links. Can't say that we were not warned about this. Danny Sullivan wrote Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google over two weeks ago, and now it...
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Oct. 9, 2007 at 8:43am 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...
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Oct. 7, 2007 at 5:38pm by Danny Sullivan
Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google
More and more, I've been seeing people wondering if they've lost traffic on Google because they were detected to be selling paid links. However, Google's generally never penalized sites for link selling. If spotted, in most cases all Google would do is prevent links from a site or pages in...
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Sep. 20, 2007 at 8:56am by Barry Schwartz
The Great Google Directory Ban Of Sept. 2007
Earlier this month, a discussion on our Sphinn site looked at how it seemed Google was going after directories with penalties. But was this really happening, or was it just forum noise coming out in particular from Digital Point? Today, Rand Fishkin takes a long look in the issue in...
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May. 14, 2007 at 9:26am by Barry Schwartz
Matt Cutts Revisits Google Rankings & Paid Links
Matt Cutts of Google has updated his blog post How to report paid links this weekend. The update has a lot more detail on Google's view of paid links. Let me summarize for you the new additions to the post....
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Apr. 30, 2007 at 11:16am by Danny Sullivan
Can You Spot The Paid Link?
In Time For Google To Give Up The Fight Against Paid Links? last week, I wrote about Google's second major war against paid links that's now underway. Today, I came across two examples that illustrate why this is such a difficult war for it to fight. How do you spot...
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Apr. 20, 2007 at 11:15am by Danny Sullivan
Time For Google To Give Up The Fight Against Paid Links?
The Paid Links Economy from Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped is a nice, thoughtful follow-up to last week's paid links debate that erupted after Google's Matt Cutts featured a new way to report paid links. There's plenty of the history of link buying and assorted comments, though Philipp's article doesn't...
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Apr. 16, 2007 at 9:23am by Barry Schwartz
Paid Links Under Scrutiny By Google Again
Matt Cutts of Google has written two posts this weekend on links to start a mountain of discussion in the SEO community. How to report paid links and Hidden links from Matt Cutts discussed how Google is in the process of testing out new methods to detect and handle paid...
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Dec. 11, 2006 at 9:47am by Barry Schwartz
Pay Per Post Reviews Acceptable By Some Search Engines
Search Engines Say OK to Pay-per-Post Services from Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz has him reporting from SES Chicago that search engines seemed largely unconcerned over pay-per-post programs, in terms of them being cover for paid links. Specifically, Tim Converse from Yahoo starts off saying that "there would be no discount...
