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Exposed! Sphinn, Live, Yahoo, Digg, Seomoz, even Google: All Buying Links From fantomaster! ::
Link Building News Source: http://fantomaster.com
Published: Oct 07, 2007 - 07:30 am
Story Found By: fantomaster 1695 Days ago
Category: Link Building
What with the ongoing FUD tactics pursued by Google & Co. trashing paid links and junking up the industry forums and blogs with all the buzz this creates, out comes - entirely expectably - a super duper tool claiming to have mastered the technology to detect said paid links. So can they? Well, if so, here’s some very revealing stuff - and remember you read it here first!
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from GotanRaider 1695 Days ago #
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That’s hilarious :)

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from TimDineen 1695 Days ago #
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Funny - apparently Feedburner is buying links from me - gotta check my mailbox for that check!

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from SEMSpot 1695 Days ago #
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Paid link detector software, what a load of crap.  I do feal sorry for anyone who did spend $40 on it to see results like that.  So with all those paid links it says you have, all that money you can take a long vacation now until next months checks roll in as well.  :)

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from TimDineen 1695 Days ago #
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At the same time, kudos to them for trying - this is a Beta so if they keep with it, and have the resources to do so, it may well turn into something useful.

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from Eavesy 1695 Days ago #
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w3.org are also buying links

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from aimClear 1694 Days ago #
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The tool is crap. I have no paid links on aimClearBlog and it flagged over 20 as paid. This made my day.

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from billslawski 1694 Days ago #
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It appears that I should be expecting a check from everyone whose site I’ve linked to.  Like the US Patent and Trademark Office is going to pay me to link to them.  Right.It looks like these folks need to have some serious second thoughts about the efficacy of their tool.  It doesn’t do what it says it does.  There are no paid links on my site, but according to these guys, every link is a paid one. 

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from g1smd 1694 Days ago #
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Can you sue an item of software for slander?

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from Burgo 1693 Days ago #
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Has anyone seen the results when you run Google itself through there? :P

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from tnash 1693 Days ago #
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Well after musing about how you might go about creating such a tool effectivly I wrote a brief article http://paymentblogger.com/2007/10/07/how-to-find-a-paid-link/Interestingly the authors of the Tool from this article replied his comment on how their magical system works was-----------Brandon from Text link Center -------------------The problem with the Paid Link Detector is it’s name. It should be the “Useless Links For SEO Detector”. You may not agree with that statement. It’s a theory that will become more and more prominient.The Paid Link Checker is looking for obvious signs of Agenda based links. These are links that Google will not count as votes (which is what a link is supposed to be in Google’s eyes). Agenda based links include links your point to your own sites, links you point to your buddy’s sites, or links you are paid to place up. -------------------------Anyway needless to say when asked for some basic methodolodgy he decided not to :) his tool is completely worthless as I said in the article I used a domain which I’ve been testing and linking directly to another domain to test some link weighting experiments so I know they have value ;) that test could be ran a 1000 times each time the result would be the same the "magic" test would fail.

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from fantomaster 1693 Days ago #
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Yeah, if anything they qualify for the "Baloney of the Year Award 2007"."Agenda driven", sure. Show me one non-"agenda driven" link anywhere and I’ll show you an entirely different Web. Or a version of homo sapiens sapiens not yet evolved, for that matter.And claiming that linkage on your own sites doesn’t serve you with the search engines reveals a degree of cluelessness (or satirical chuzpe...) that beggars all description.Hell, even the publicized version of Google’s PageRank tech says otherwise!

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from seoasia 1693 Days ago #
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Ｉdoubt the software can do any good for checking real paid link. everyone is using paid link ini certain degree. for example, yahoo directories, business.com, some directoreis, they are paid link. so what’s the point of having a software that detect pay links. I think google try to fear someone by saying "penalize on sites that offer pay links". since it tries to modified the search engine result just like google boombing on george bush website. So what’s the point of having the software???<a href="http://www.oneseoasia.com"> asia search engine optimization company </a>

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from tnash 1693 Days ago #
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Totally offtopic but and I don’t wish to sound misery guys by my highly targetted link is nofollowed and the rather spammy link of SEOAsia is not don’t mind which way they are but any chance of it being consistent?Jill they actually have a business model but like their amazing tool and its methodolodgy I feel it may be equally as "magic" but will no doubt go, build crappy tool, tell everyone that buying links is not safe, then  offer their own "magical" links which are safe. We all rejoice and the world is saved. I do feel sorry for them but not enough to give them to much slack we have enough headless chickens running round the farm we don’t need to be handing out free axes

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from fantomaster 1693 Days ago #
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"we don’t need to be handing out free axes"So you’re seriously not into "SEO Bloodbath, Sq. 14" headlines? LOL

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from Burgo 1691 Days ago #
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That’s an interesting catch Tim... I was under the impression that ALL links in the comments were nofollowed.

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