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What I said is IF you are violating other guidelines...You would seek to avoid coming under the microscope by using such terms.
If I am selling links...I am certainly NOT going to put a heading tag on my site "buy a link here". Or if I had say 200 hidden words in CSS, would I advertise a "sponsors" label over a box of links on my site?
Google has said in the past, they seek to give us the best information to be successful with our web sites, but they do not cover every situation. We are left with common sense.
There is not much difference in going out of your way to hide your own created links in Java Script, with no "alt" or other means of description or accessibility, than cloaking for example. This is just smaller scale. Google has said and Matt has said, the search engines and users should be getting the same content. The proper way for this to happen is for content you create within a Java Script environment to contain the proper descriptive attributes for not only the crawlers, but accessibility as well. So IF we were talking about Adsense, or and AdBrite Ad...That would be quite different. Do note, that some of the Java Hidden links got though, as the sites showed a backlink, or the coding has since changed.
My point is people are not reacting in a constructive manner, just clean things up and fly right. I visit forums and PM webmasters quite regularly advising them NOT to solicit paid links in the open form, especially with the web url included. Even if they are just advertising, it's become quite likely they will get reported and anything else that is wrong or less than within the guidelines will then be easily discovered.
So that's why I would consider those items to be "unsafe". I did not say sites were penalized for such, just that those practices were what I consider "unsafe", and that site's who have guideline violations might be more careful to escape suspicion. What I said if your site was penalized was ""So, if you have no idea why Google has giving you a PR drop.....You have only to look at your links, Ads, and forward link profile. "" I believe that is a fair statement of the circumstances, both Andy and Matt described.
--Melanie
Story: How Stupid is BlogRush?
Well, Jonty BlogRush is BS...And I am quite sick of their antics and screw ups. I will not be held hostage by such a "service" (I use that term quite loosely)
Story: Blogrush is a scam
Well, I sent another email. I a really mad as hell. I don't in all honesty want my blog associated with a BlogRush account. I asked to be removed, on Sept. 29th they assured me that had happened. Jonty left me a comment that I was activated even though I am no longer a member....Well, I have news for BlogRush...They have threatened me, they have ignored, and they have tried to hold my blog hostage by means of their lack of systematic procedure for blog removal...and I am very disparaged by the fact that they host a clause in their terms of use as follows
By submitting Content to Income.com for inclusion in our Service, you grant Income.com a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Income.com will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Service, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.
I do not find it at all amusing....It is quite a vague statement from a company I have grown to distrust. In essence, any content present on your blog during the period of membership is in fact licensed to BlogRush under that clause, unless you delete it.
--Melanie
Story: Yahoo's Pickled SERPS
Story: How to find a paid link?
Well aparently linking to Matt Cutts' blog from my SEO blog is either paid or suspect....LOL wonder which it is? Along with Technorati, and Bruce Clay's blog...Oh my.
This tool is dangerous...I can just see the reports rolling in to the big "G" now. Nice article Tim I hope many webmasters read it.
Story: Blog Habits that Piss Me Off
LOL, thanks....I am not a very patient person, consider it a work in progress =-)
--Melanie
Story: The Uncommon SEO of Nofollow
There is, takes a minute to get working..but not difficult.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/3094.htm
--Melanie
For whatever reason, apparently the sub domain is fairly new. I have heard is a DNS thing, or duplication, penalty, or plain Google screw up. The odd thing is, the main url is working so if it was a DNS issue why wouldn't they have re-indexed it? I don't buy duplication because the main url is not in the site command...pages yes, but the the domain main. So in my opinion that leaves the greatest possibility for Google screw up or a penalty. I imagine we will know soon enough.
Story: psst Want to buy a Link?
Reality trip of the paid link drama boat stops at the SEOCog.com harbor for a no nonsense look at paid links and the people who sold them. Find out why Google can't really do this.
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