Comments on: If You Don’t Think Google Can Detect Paid Links…….. http://www.textlinkcenter.com/blog/if-you-dont-think-google-can-detect-paid-links/ Search Engine Optimization Blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:34:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: jake http://www.textlinkcenter.com/blog/if-you-dont-think-google-can-detect-paid-links/#comment-504 jake Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:58:18 +0000 http://www.textlinkcenter.com/blog/if-you-dont-think-google-can-detect-paid-links/#comment-504 Funny thing is, it's just not accurate. It picked up two paid links on my site and they both are shopping cart links. Funny thing is, it’s just not accurate. It picked up two paid links on my site and they both are shopping cart links.

]]> By: brandondrury http://www.textlinkcenter.com/blog/if-you-dont-think-google-can-detect-paid-links/#comment-507 brandondrury Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:56:51 +0000 http://www.textlinkcenter.com/blog/if-you-dont-think-google-can-detect-paid-links/#comment-507 Jake, if you watch the video, you may get a better idea for what the paid link detector does. The paid link detector searches for patterns in linking out that resemble that of paid links. If we found links on your site with the Paid Link Detector, those links are worthless for SEO reasons. Brandon Jake, if you watch the video, you may get a better idea for what the paid link detector does. The paid link detector searches for patterns in linking out that resemble that of paid links. If we found links on your site with the Paid Link Detector, those links are worthless for SEO reasons.

Brandon

]]> By: Simon http://www.textlinkcenter.com/blog/if-you-dont-think-google-can-detect-paid-links/#comment-525 Simon Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:49:44 +0000 http://www.textlinkcenter.com/blog/if-you-dont-think-google-can-detect-paid-links/#comment-525 Honestly, I think that most of the issues about paid link security boil down to poor publishing practices. If you don't mark the links as paid on your site, and don't put them in a group (ie. sidebar list), there is little any search engine can do. Obviously, the best thing to do if you want them to be undetectable is to sell them in your existing content. The format of the link may also carry a little weight, but nothing conclusive for a search engine to latch on to. As far as a secure selling area goes, as long as you only make sensitive info available to registered users, and explicity bar search engine employees / affiliates from accessing the site, I think that covers the bases. Once you go to the extent of not allowing advertisers to know where the links will be placed, at the very least you are creating a big psychological hurdle to overcome when making sales. My 2 cents... Honestly, I think that most of the issues about paid link security boil down to poor publishing practices. If you don’t mark the links as paid on your site, and don’t put them in a group (ie. sidebar list), there is little any search engine can do.

Obviously, the best thing to do if you want them to be undetectable is to sell them in your existing content. The format of the link may also carry a little weight, but nothing conclusive for a search engine to latch on to.

As far as a secure selling area goes, as long as you only make sensitive info available to registered users, and explicity bar search engine employees / affiliates from accessing the site, I think that covers the bases. Once you go to the extent of not allowing advertisers to know where the links will be placed, at the very least you are creating a big psychological hurdle to overcome when making sales.

My 2 cents…

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