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The Big Paid Link Debate Roundup

Barry Schwartz on October 9, 2007 at 8:43 am

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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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on SEM topics.