Comments on: 6 links that look like paid ones (but really aren’t)

By: Adam Stephen

Adam Stephen — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:46:10 +0000

You need to be careful (as many people know) when buying links as google is slowly getting more and more touchy about this. They want their Google Results to be as pure and natural as possible and if people can just pay some money and manipulate the results it won’t do their product any good at all. I think purchasing some links is fine but done at a slow pace - maybe 20 to 30 a month. Make sure you don’t get ripped off - more and more sites are popping up that offer paid links just to cash in on the $10 to $20 people are willing to pay in the hope it increases their Google Ranking…

Cheers
Adam Adair
Website Design Melbourne Australia
http://www.globalsolutionsit.com.au

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Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:24:00 +0000

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By: how to make money

how to make money — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:14:48 +0000

Lets See wht Matt Cut and comapny has to say about it.

You Their Matt………..

By: Wiep

Wiep — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:25:56 +0000

Brandon; you’re absolutely right: I don’t look at what’s best for the search engine in terms of providing quality search results when I build a website or when I add stuff to my blogroll. Since search engines don’t read my posts, click on my links and subscribe to my feeds, I try to design and fill my websites for real visitors.

By: Brandon Drury

Brandon Drury — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:15:38 +0000

Why would a person ever cast a real, valuable vote in the navigation of a site? It doesn’t make sense.

I think most people are looking at their own agendas and not thinking about what is best for the search engine in terms of providing quality search results.

A link in the body will always be held to a higher accountability than a link in the navigation. You CAN vote for your friends, but you should put it in the middle of your content so that your name is on the line. If you link to a piece of junk in the middle of your blog, I’m holding you accountable.

If you link to some random site in your footer, I don’t really care. As a visitor of this site, I’m not going to look at your footer anyway unless I’m looking to navigate through your site somehow.

By: David

David — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:34:00 +0000

Technically I can’t see there being, even a near, definite answer to detecting paid for links. Making sure the link is direct, without affiliate text in the URL, is one way. And seeing if the site is at all related through keyword parsing is another.

Apart from that and a few other technical details, it’s anyone’s guess!

By: Wiep

Wiep — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:44:28 +0000

Fantomaster; yes, I forgot to mention that link was an unpaid one as well. Great comic btw

Luke; Trying to weed out useless links is something Google already tries to do algorithmically, authority wise. This paid link debate is something completely different, the fact that someone paid for a link doesn’t necessarily mean that the link isn’t a quality vote; it means that it’s an edited vote.
Why should the link to my buddy be of lesser value? There’s a reason why I linked to him and not to several other friends who happen to have a website. That reason is quality; his website is linkworthy!<

By: Luke Sample

Luke Sample — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:35:28 +0000

The real over-all picture here and what google is doing is weeding out USELESS LINKS. Yes, many useless links are paid links.

So, what is a useless link? Well, it is a link that PROBABLY isn’t providing a quality vote for the other site. You even mentioned in your post here that the links that appear to be paid, aren’t really quality votes for the other site. I mean, linking to your buddy…that simply shouldn’t be counted as a true strong quality vote for that site. It srews up the results.

So, good doesn’t really care if the link is paid or not. I mean, they don’t want you to buy links…but they care more if the link is a quality link. That is how they are discounting most paid links, because they are of low quality.

I have done multiple videos on this over at my site textlinkcenter.com if you guys want to see more.

Where google runs into issues is a link looking like a quality vote, but it is paid. This is where the paid link industry is going to have to take things. Until they do, google will be one step ahead while people uselessly try to change the words “sponsored links” to “check this out” or whatever. Ah! What a joke. C’mon guys.

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By: fantomaster

fantomaster — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:18:05 +0000

Thanks for the unpaid link to my blog, Wiep! (And yes, Matt - it IS unpaid! Maybe just because I’m broke, but unpaid is as unpaid stays. LOL)
Maybe we should ask Google to implement a Link Commissar (the GLC) to submit to for prior approval of links. If they can promise a turnaround of appr. 24 hours that should help slow us all down to more healthy pace in life. Perhaps they could also implement some tracking codes in the links they approve - this could help push their data mining efforts to the next level.
And: Make it free at first for maximum acceptance, then, softly softly phase in a fee structure - that should make their shareholders swoon from joy!
For anything else, see:
http://saloonix.stripgenerator.com/2007/10/09/not-buying-paid-links.html