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Google Doesn’t Penalize your Rankings if you Sell Links! - by Jim Boykin
Link Building News Source: http://www.jimboykin.com
Published: Sep 28, 2007 - 03:48 am
Story Found By: webuildpages 2059 Days ago
Category: Link Building
A few days ago the Cool Aid and FUD was passed around here about a site that was penalized in rankings because they sold a few links. Jim believes Google doesn’t, nor ever will, penalize sites for selling links. Find out why!
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from MattMcGee 2059 Days ago #
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Good stuff, Jim (as usual). Can you imagine what the SERPs would look like if all these sites got banned? Holy [beep].......

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from Sebastian 2059 Days ago #
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Well put Jim.

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from NickWilsdon 2059 Days ago #
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Good article Jim, as you say, Matt must be over the moon with the FUD this topic is creating. No offence to him, I think he’s played Google’s position excellently. There are times I think he’s the best marketer of us all! ;-)

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from SamIWas 2059 Days ago #
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Great post. In addition, the one example Matt Cutts has given for a site supposedly penalized for paid links turned out to be a question of cloaking. Cloaking, totally nothing to do with paid links.Add to the list the many examples of SEO sites that clearly sell text links AND are visited by Matt Cutts (seroundtable for example) and there is essentially more evidence that they don’t penalize than that they do. I doubt it’s the 302 though but that’s another topic.

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from europa 2059 Days ago #
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Jim....another great blog post. Although my favorite of yours is still you co-citation post.

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from robwatts 2058 Days ago #
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I’m gonna break with tradition and say that every now and then google make an example of someone and say nothing.  Johnchow.com being a recent  example.

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from wwip 2058 Days ago #
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Great post Jim!

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from IncrediBILL 2058 Days ago #
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The site still has a penalty applied to it and just because it’s probably not a paid links penalty doesn’t mean it’s not SOME sort of penalty.Easy way to tell is when you just search Google for the domain name without the .com/.net/.co.uk etc. is that is should return a result with that domain name on top.For example search "jimboykin" all one word and it comes up with jimboykin.com but search for a site known to be penalized like the "avivadirectory" and it doesn’t show up unless you search for "avivadirectory.com" expressly.I could give you tons of examples and it’s always the same for a penalized site that you have to add the DOT COM before they show up.This is obviously a clue but we don’t know what symptoms invoke this clue, such as any penalty or just specific penalties, but it’s certainly a problem with  "davidairey"’s site.

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from Harith 2057 Days ago #
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Just wish to mention that I have posted my remarks about Jim Boykin’s article in this thread on a separate post: Jim Boykin’s & Aaron Wall’s Unethical Approach to Paid Linkshttp://sphinn.com/story/7623

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from adityasfs 2055 Days ago #
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I completely agree with you :)

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from Skitzzo 2049 Days ago #
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I’d be interested to hear Jim’s take on Danny’s report over the weekend that in fact Google will be penalizing your rankings for selling links. Is this just more FUD or is there substance to their claim? Or is it a bit of both (as things usually are with Google)?

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from webuildpages 2048 Days ago #
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I’ve got a comment on there with my thoughts.

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from pkenjora 1941 Days ago #
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Finally someone who makes sense vs. riding the hysteria wave.  Thanks for this post.

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