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Google Declares War on Paid Links: But Why Now?
Vertical Search News Source: http://www.seroundtable.com
Published: Dec 04, 2007 - 06:09 am
Story Found By: floppy 1531 Days ago
Category: Vertical Search
The official Google Webmaster Central blog has a post by Matt Cutts and Maile Ohye named Information about buying and selling links that pass PageRank and Matt Cutts himself wrote his own post with extreme examples of paid links named Selling links that pass PageRank. Matt’s blog has over 200 comments already, and the discussion throughout the SEO world is running rampant.
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from g1smd 1531 Days ago #
Votes: 4

Why now?Why not?  People have had more than four years of warnings that this was coming.

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from Harith 1531 Days ago #
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g1smdWell said!Matt has been warning people not to be engaged in manupolating PageRank through paid links for years. Problem is that those link sellers who are whining today didn’t take Matt’s warnings seriously at that time.Here is what Matt wrote already in September 2005:"But for everyone else, let me talk about why we consider it outside our guidelines to get PageRank via buying links."http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/text-links-and-pagerank/

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from SamFreedom 1531 Days ago #
Votes: -1

I’m a CONTRARIAN, I think now would be an AWESOME time to start getting involved in PAID LINKS.  Remember, it ain’t about doing it GOOGLE’S WAY.... it’s about using current events to get traffic to your blog, woohoooooo!I recently wrote, "Pay Per Jokes Crime and Google Does Evil" which also points to "Get Out Your Vaseline, Google’s At It Again re: Paid Links"... why ANY of this is a surprise, or NEWS, is almost laughable.

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from SamFreedom 1531 Days ago #
Votes: 0

ps. Floppy, I don’t mean it’s not sphinnworthy news... I just mean that no one should be surprised by now.  The battle lines are clearly drawn. ;-)

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from WebmasterT 1529 Days ago #
Votes: 0

g1msd, the difference is that up until now my not using rel affected SeoPros and only SeoPros. Now in their infanite wisdom they may penalize the members we link to! That is not only a difference its an open invitation for the unsavory element to use the same tactic to get their competitors penalized so... why submit your own site to these places submit your competitors since most of these directories wouldn’t care so long as they get a $. Better still pay to have your competitor reviewd on the spammy blogs payforpost blogs!

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