Comments on: Reporting Paid Links To Google – Mountain Or Molehill?

By: Psychic advice

Psychic advice — Wed, 09 May 2007 05:19:57 +0000

The problem for us is that we will not be able to sell some real estate on our home pages for advertising. Usually they are in the form of text links. It is this income on a monthly basis that can make a web page.

By: Jay Pasta

Jay Pasta — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:15:19 +0000

I can’t imagine how Google will find paid links. Except one thing, but human is needed. Google hates human intervention, so no other solution

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:14:19 +0000

This is a heated topic, one that is certainly to get hotter as time goes by. Finking out the competition could become one way to destroy your competitors. Egads!

Regards,
MattK

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Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:05:11 +0000

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By: Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:34:41 +0000

Personally I believe this is going to cause a wave of failures across the board and worse yet it will ripple into the index of Yahoo, MSN and any other Search Engines.

My own opinion is that its their service so they can do what they want but when it effects the index of other Search Engines then its a problem. If there is an agreement with other Search Engines that it is a good move then so be it.

At last, things are starting to get very interesting.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:35:39 +0000

Hi Matt

Your post sure is popular (or not popular depending on your viewpoint). Thanks for dropping by.

Rgds
Richard

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:10:57 +0000

Richard, that’s a good distillation/summary, esp. if people don’t want to wade through all the comments on that post.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:05:49 +0000

Rankings will only drop if they achieved those through paid links previously (and, of course, if Google can discover those paid links). But if I buy a tonne of links, point them at your site, and report you, will your rankings go down when Google turns off the juice from those new paid links? No, because you will be in the same state as before I undertook my dastardly act. I, on the other hand, will be out of pocket and may even have my Google account flagged.

This all comes back to S.P.A.M – Sites Placed Above Mine

By: Cormac Moylan

Cormac Moylan — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:27:59 +0000

Will the competitor’s ranking drop? No. Because they will still have all the link juice that got them their rankings in the first place.

But their rankings will drop because their inbound links won’t be as relevant as before if Google has its way.