Comments on: Google Wants YOU to Report Paid Links!

By: Virus Removal Business

Virus Removal Business — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:15:01 +0000

What’s the problem with this? If your competition wants you out of the way, it can damage your rankings by obtaining paid links to your site and reporting them to Google.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:32:19 +0000

Not quite the same, the idea that someone purchases a link to exploit Google’s ranking algorithm is what they are trying to combat against.

Paid links should be only valuable as the traffic they provide, not additional value passed because of the link.

By: Hostmonster

Hostmonster — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:36:53 +0000

This is ridiculous. Just as other members have said, Adwords is paid advertising. How is it any different? Google just wants a monopoly of the paid link advertising on the internet.

By: Kotto from Safety Surfers Online Security Web Site

Kotto from Safety Surfers Online Security Web Site — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:15:33 +0000

My site is not involved in buying or selling links. Why? I think it might be good for a big site to become even bigger. I don’t think reporting sites with paid links as I don’t have time to report all Adsense sites on the net – this kind of paid advertising is really ubiquitous and eye-catching. No one can dissuade me that Google’s Adsense ads are not paid links. The answer to a question whether Google wants to “enforce a primary component of the Internet for their own purposes” is clear. A Web site should not be penalized for selling links IF the site administrator controls the process and does not let poor quality Web site links appear on his Web site. Only in case the links lead to spam sites Google may take the site out of the search engine index. But we know Big Brother does not listen to us, just mortals…

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By: Michael Lodispoto

Michael Lodispoto — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:48:25 +0000

Hey, lets all go to google’s report page and report google! Since they sell paid links more than anyone. I’ve bought them and can prove it, so have most of you. How dare they sell paid links, what a travesty of justice ( Google’s Justice)

Is anyone sick of big companies, especially search engines telling us all how to design our sites? Who to sell links to, who to link to and so on? By asking webmasters to report others, that is like Nazi Germany – let’s report the Jews, they are evil because we say they are. I think if we all opt out at once the threats will be toothless. What if we all started to use Ask.com? Just a thought? Do you and your readers and everyone else like Andy beard, Maki at Dosh Dosh and the rest will ever care again? Just imagine Lycos today telling us all we have to do this or that – you would laugh – right?

By: Cartoon Barry Blog

Cartoon Barry Blog — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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By: Sphinn: News, Discussion Forums & Networking For Search & Internet Marketing Professionals

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

[IMG Avatar] Went Hot: November 25, 2007 – 3:58 pm Posted By: pittfall 1 day 6 hours ago Topic Type: News Story (Jump tohttp://www.seopittfall.com) my network Category: Google Searching Did Google create the link? (of course not) So, why are they trying to control what you do with your links? Check out a different perspective and a remake of Matt Cutts as Uncle Sam!

By: FeedBomb

FeedBomb — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Fishing for Links In October of last year, Google made some major adjustments to PageRank because of paid links, then in November, Google noted thatbuying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and asked for webmasters to report them. I have heard, since this time, from a few sources, that this may not be the case consistently, but I was unable to validate these any of these. Recently, while doing research, a friend inquired about some link behaviors that appeared to be purchased