Kill Your Google Rankings With Paid Links To Bad Sites
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When it comes to buying and selling links, there is a HUGE side of the equation that has just recently became an issue for Text Link Sellers, but has been a HUGE issue for text link buyers for a long time. It’s an issue that the sellers of links on Digitalpoint have ignored and and it’s an issue that Text Link Ads still completley ignores. This issue is QUALITY! (Our TLC Value Scoreis the first major step a powerful text link ad system has taken to ensure quality). The rest of the text link industry would rather simply play dumb, keep their audience ignorant, and watch the profits come rolling in. (If you were taking in half the $$ from each sale on Text Link Ads, would you care if those links actually did anything? Perception is reality, right?)
Google Penalized Detectable Links To Bad Neighborhoods.
If you are selling links to anyone and everyone, you will be penalized. Your own rankings will go down and you will lose lots of traffic and probably lots of money. But don’t take my word for it.
Check out how David Airey reversed the Google penalty after a HUGE chunk of his search engine traffic went out the window. He was selling links to bad neighborhoods that were easily detectable by Google. I’m not sure how David Airey was selling his links, but it is clear that he had no emphasis on quality, relevance, or any of the secret factors that we take into account with our TLC Value Score here at Text Link Center. He was simply trying to make a few extra bucks.
Nothing Wrong With Making $$$
There is no shame in simply trying to make a few extra $ on your site. However, without a strong understanding of the quality that Google demands and a strong understanding of how to NOT be detected by Google your links will be worthless. If you are not sure if your links are worthless, try out our Paid Link Detector.
Of course, maybe David Airey now has a better understanding of Google’s position on text link buying and selling. Maybe now he realized that the links he was selling offered no real value to the people he was selling to.
The Text Link Buyer Loses
In almost every case, it’s the buyers who lose. The people buying links from sites that make their links easily detectable by Google (see the Paid Link Detector here at Text Link Center) are throwing their money away. Because of the nature of SEO, this isn’t made obvious until you’ve done some long terms tests. Do you really think that Google gave any benefit to the sites that David was linking to after they penalized him? Do you really think they gave any benefit to the sites that David was linking to before he was penalized?
Google Penalizes Links Before It Penalizes Sites
It’s important to note that a relatively small number of sites selling bad links are being penalized in their own rankings, but this number appears to be increasing as Google continues to escalate The War On Links. Just because your rankings have not plummeted does not mean that your links are selling are of any value. Just because your rankings have not plummeted doesn’t mean you they won’t crash soon!
Conclusion
Buying and selling links isn’t complicated, but it requires responsibility. If you simply slap 10 links in your footer, you will be penalized. Google can detect these paid links. In fact, Text Link Center can detect these paid links with the Paid Link Detector.
October 6th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Thanks for the mention, although I’m not sure how you think it was clear that my links weren’t relevant.
If you take a quick look around my blog, you’ll notice a full category on business cards, and one on web development, so to sell links for business card printing, and for web design templates isn’t exactly unrelevant.
All the best.