Comments on: Google Punished My Site For Selling Links - NOT!

By: seo ethics

seo ethics — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:46:52 +0000

Who ever else participates in link trade will be penalised by google, so many sites have been lost page rank its affected most of big product sites..

By: linkfeads

linkfeads — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:28:15 +0000

I’m not sure what to believe now. I’ve deleted all my payment processes in the light of Google’s pr drop and some links have gone as well. Did Google punish via pr drop or not, and is it safe to sell advertising?. I have noticed a major drop in sales, like 0 since the drop. My index page dropped anyway, i guess because of lack of content or other. But i lost pr on internal pages for reasons unknown…

By: Rishiraj Singh

Rishiraj Singh — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:46:00 +0000

Google never like anything related to link trading, but he can not stop someone to do it. One thing is for sure, Google penalize link farms.

To jack,
You can put copyright notice on your website and can report to hosting for copyright violation.

By: jack

jack — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:25:51 +0000

i hav a website which page rank was good before 2 months…suddenly it had a drastic changes in page rank ..i was confused why google penalised me……my friend said this is due to duplicate content….Is ther any way to protect contents of my site….

By: Case Stevens

Case Stevens — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:13:37 +0000

I like the way you explained the whole problem and it’s very re-assuring, but how do you explain page rank drops for blogs like Andy Beard’s?

By: vancouver seo

vancouver seo — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:24:53 +0000

From what I understood site dropped not because of “selling links”, but simply because the ratio - incoming, outgoing link went closer.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:02:04 +0000

Nope. Just the same old paranoia that pops up when anything changes. And when nothing changes, paranoia pops up anyway.

By: simon

simon — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:30:01 +0000

I read these stories and all the original posts. What gives this tool the right to cry wolf when he was trying to game the system? It happens to thousands of people everyday who genuinely has just messed up but this guy knew all to well what he was doing.

And tool if your reading, thats not a compliment

By: David Airey

David Airey — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:00:51 +0000

Hi Paul M.,

Not sure what you mean by “big head”, but I know I’ve done wrong. Hopefully it’s not too late to reverse my mistakes, and I’ve sent an email to all 250 entrants of my prize draw, asking them to remove their links to my site.

I sent the email yesterday, and so far around 50 people have responded saying the links are gone. I’m hoping the others follow suit, to diffuse my stupid Google bomb.

By: Paul M.

Paul M. — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:40:59 +0000

Very reasonable article, Jim. Google is on the same boat as web publishers selling links. They are in the same business so they won’t penalize everybody around but they will warn to use the best practice (nofollow etc.) and may put a PR Block on your site. They will also pick a few “big heads” and penalize their sites (David, John) to show the SEO community to be careful.

You have a few paid links, some affiliates, moneymakers? All right. But if you go massive with your actions then don’t be surprised. I am not surprised with David’s site ban. “Please link to me with … anchor text”. It is similar like putting in an H1 “I buy links - penalize me, Google”.

Let’s be gentle in our SEO practices and don’t make Google knock to your door!