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Paid Link Reporting Spurs Furious Debate

Matt Cutts posted a note about Google being in position to handle paid link report submissions from the Internet community; Michael Gray complained about the fairness of the request.

Google Grateful For Your Webspam And Paid Links Reports

Give yourselves a hand, folks.  In Google's fight against webspam and paid links, you've apparently played an important role, and in the future, the company's hoping you'll participate even more.

Exclusive: Google Leads People To NoFollow Help Center

Matt Cutts told Mike McDonald of WebProNews about something new from Google: the search advertising company opened a little help center on the topic of nofollows and links.

Network Solutions In Another Controversy

Network Solutions really didn't need any more public relations disasters after the controversy of automatically registering searched-for domains and "protecting" them for a $35 fee. Though this new controversy may not be quite the hyperbole it's made out to be in some places, it does come with some potentially serious issues.

Google Continues Downgrading Paid Link Sites

The pointy boot came down hard on more websites recently as Google knocked PageRank off sites for their paid link activities.

Fighting Google's Paid Link Stance With Robots.txt

Andy Beard has hit upon a compromise between removing text links from his site and being summarily punished by Google for selling them.

A Loophole For Paid Links

It seems it was only a matter of time before the cleverer element of the SEO world developed a workaround for Google's penalizing of paid links. The workaround involves a pretty creative "dynamic" linking strategy, and it's playing a little bit dirty.

Manipulation and Profit Margins

Central hubs on the web fight off manipulation to keep their status and profit margins in tact. A side effect of this war on control over information access is the butchering of the English language. Digg is Illegal? Digg's CEO Jay Adelson said:

Google vs. MSN on Paid Links and Cloaking

Don't buy paid links! Paid links are bad! Don't cloak either. Search engines don't allow it. You've all heard this before right?>>> What are your thoughts on paid links? Do you agree with Google's hard line? Comment here...

Google Loose with Editorially Approved Links

In an earlier post I chastised Google for giving straight links to partners, However now I’ve found a whole bunch more...