Black Hat – White Hat

No more paid links on the horizon?

If a large part of your business model deals with having advertisers buy ads off of your site you might be in for a big suprise a little later in life.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/

In a nutshell Matt is asking folks to report paid link buyers and sellers.  Yep – black, grey, and whit hat seo’s are quacking in their boots.  Mainly over this line:

Chaaban, nope, definitely not an April Fool’s joke. :) We’ve got a lot of data within Google already, but I wanted to put out a call for external reports to widen the set of data that we can test on.

In other words kids – Goog is already on the hunt for link farms – we know that… but they are also now on the hunt for those of you who buy and sell links with out using no_follow tags.  Read through the comments a bit (there is over 100 of them), and form your own opinion.
Then go out and do no evil :)

3 comments

  1. Allow me to be the first to comment ;-)

    Google won’t definitely do that. Why? Because there will be tons of reports on links farm from people even don’t know what link farms is ;-)

    How could Google do that? Google even can’t do anything to drive old schooler blackhatters off the high rank list ;-)

  2. You are kidding right? Google WILL most likely do that. They do get rid of the blackhatters over time – they just make more sites. Get them blacklisted – make more sites, etc…

    Never ending cycle.

    Google won’t bann you for linkfarming, but they may very well penalize you.

    Read the comments on Cutt’s blog – the writing is probably on the wall.

  3. To follow up here:

    Webmasters are reporting that if they sell sitewide links or have been buying sitewide links they have a huge pr drop.

    It happened.

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