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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, […]

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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