Buying Text Links
Another Paid Links Article – With A Twist
Thursday, October 4th, 2007When Andy Greenberg at Forbes writes an article called “Google Purges The Payola”, it is bound to make search engine marketers take notice. It is a well-balanced article that uses the recent penalty that Google apparently applied to certain directories as catalyst to explore the whole question of paid links. The usual experts were consulted; [...]
Are Paid Links Evil? I’m Sick Of The Question
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Some of the biggest buzz out of SES San Jose revolves around the panel named “Are Paid Links Evil?” Our own Mike Murray is speaking at the conference and he reports several attendees let it be known they have a problem with Google’s stand on paid links. Matt Cutts was on the panel as [...]
How Much Are ‘Link Condoms’?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007The paid link controversy got deliciously nasty yesterday at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose.
Google’s Matt Cutts joined other industry leaders on a panel called “Are Paid Links Evil?”
Google basically wants web sites to avoid passing along PageRank if they sell links. In other words, if a page has a good reputation (an authority [...]
The Art of Buying Text Links
Monday, December 19th, 2005Mark Daoust wrote an excellent article on SiteProNews called “Purchasing Links for Pagerank.” It goes into great detail about the implications of buying links. Right now it’s on their home page; use their archives later if you need to hunt this one down.
