Apr 17 2007
Reporting paid links
I honestly don’t see how this can work. Webmasters pay for advertising, they also submit to directories. Some directories provide quality traffic, others just give a benefit in the search engines (to some small degree in most cases). So right now I really wonder what it is that Google wants to do. The biggest fish in the link buying/selling business should be easy for them to detect. And most of them enjoy a free ride on the back of Google as well as site owners who pay more attention to building quality than buying their ways on top of Google.
Feel free to leave a comment and your opinion. I think that this is a very bad idea, and unless Google works overtime on doing this right, it will be a disaster, drive-by shooting style.
Mike
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One Response to “Reporting paid links”
You are right, its not cut and dry like Matt makes it sound.
With everyone using that spam form, expect many innocent victims caught in the line of fire.
I think its also important that webmasters differentiate between paid links(for search engine benefit) and advertisements.
