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Link Selling Equals Google Juice Squeeze

The paid link debate has a new topic to chew on, namely the official word and demonstrated effect of Google penalizing sites that sell links.
Link Selling Equals Google Juice Squeeze
Link Selling Equals Google Juice Squeeze
From Google's mouth to Danny Sullivan's ears came the word on selling links. He's followed the issue, using the Stanford Daily student newspaper website as an example.

Stanford Daily had enjoyed a PageRank of 9, and a $350 per month revenue stream per text link. That PR 9 has dwindled from its position in April, said Danny:

Last week, I noticed the Stanford Daily had dropped from when I wrote the above in April to PR7 today. That's a huge drop that has no apparent reason to happen. Some others were also reporting PageRank drops. So I pinged Google, and they confirmed that PageRank scores are being lowered for some sites that sell links.

In addition, Google said that some sites that are selling links may indeed end up being dropped from its search engine or have penalties attached, to prevent them from ranking well.

Humorously enough, Danny discovered an instance where Google doesn't let link selling get in the way of its multi-billion dollar business. On his site, Google advertising for a "PR 6 .Edu Backlink" appeared within a Search Engine Land story.

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David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. Follow me on Twitter, and you can reach me via email at dutter @ webpronews dot com. Why not Mixx or Sphinn this article while you're here?

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Yup, only google can sell

Yup, only google can sell links..... &@#$%.....

Did google ever think what will happen if the top webmasters put googlebot noindex tag in their robots.txt file? looks like it is going to happen..........

PR and link selling

Well, David, is it for sure that selling links damages PR or is it the layout and position of links? I mean, if a webmaster makes them look like google text links or text ads and sticks them right after/before?
After all what'd the difference be selling links to using ad-agencies which sell links and give you a code?
Or just selling any advertising space in any shape or form?

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