Is it OK to sell links as long as we use the nofollow attribute?

Is it OK to sell links as long as we use the nofollow attribute?

Lost faith, Australia

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• paid
• links
• nofollow

[agapitoflores001]

Definitely right! this is very nice of Google. You are assured of security with Google.

[dzlalov]

fantastic approach to this rather "legal" problem :)

taking things one step further: where adn how to sell your links?

easy part :): | FuzzAgent | LinkAdage | BackLinks4u |

[TheSEOBOOK]

Thanks for the clarification

[peterskuse]

How can Google tell whether a link is paid for or not?

[MattsLens]

Excellent content, thank you for the information.

[leonheart00]

@heenan73 Yes, well the fact is that quality or not if you sell a link you sell a link. The question now lies in, is this considered selling or is it considered paying for a review of the quality of a site in order to decide whether to add them to a directory. If so that opens the opportunity to make a very high quality directory and sell reviews in order to decide whether I should add them to mine. I would have no problem doing that.

[ejstauffer]

@heenan73 Believe what you will, but I would recommend looking into it. Google announced it earlier this year. It was kind of a big deal.

[heenan73]

@leonheart00 Yahoo! Directory and other human-editied 'quality' directories, such as Joant, ODP, have demonstrated their standards, and so are as agood a recommendation (or better) than many others on the web. It isn't a loophole, it's the way it's supposed to work!

[heenan73]

@philippineoutsource Paidlinks without nofollow are in breach of Google Guidelines, and so 'can' affect your rankings. Your risk.

[heenan73]

@ejstauffer Where's your evidence for this? What you say is contradicted by every Google statement (including this video). You suggest Google 'punishes' the use of nolfollow, which would be crazy, as Google wants you to use it. What conceivable motive could they have? I suspect you are making this up ;o)

[sayweb]

great, as usual

[philippineoutsource]

I am managing a non-profit website and I don't sell links ... However, I forgot to put nofollow on the links on my pages ... will it affect me or will it affect the pages I am pointing to?

[ejstauffer]

This does effect things - Google divides PR among all the links on a page, and then essentially lops off the ones with no follows. Here is an example:

10 links total - 5 followed, 5 no followed. If you had "10" PR points (everything being constant) you do not get 2 PR points to each of the 5 followed links. The 10 points is divided by 10 links, no follows lopped off, and the remaining 5 each get 1 point.

So... by adding paid links to your page, you can potentially be devaluing the other links.

[leonheart00]

Further Thoughts, also is it because Yahoo is technically charging a review fee that creates a loophole? If so, that sounds like a lovely business :P

[leonheart00]

Here is my question, if directories are selling links like Yahoo directory, then how come they maintain their placement in Google. Aren't they breaking the user guidelines or are they just being given special treatment because they are Yahoo?

[vxcriss]

Is it ok to buy do-follow links and not tell anyone? :P Guess what, there's a big difference between what Google wants, and reality.

[TechieGeek1]

Is it okay to buy links from Matt Cutt's blog?

[drekaham]

what if you already broke this rule but didn't know about it before? how long will my site be penalized? i already put nofollow on all the links...

[drekaham]

hi, is it ok too if you put the links into iframe? also into a different file and then show the file on your index.php in iframe?

[jeffstukas]

@fferrero2008 did you see all the video or did u just watch a little of it? Maybe you should re watch it.

[Angens]

@DutchPow3r Banners, bigger textlinks etc ?

[HunterDigi]

@fferrero2008

jeffstukas kinda quoted what was said in 0:45 : "you're the owner of your webmaster"

[applesauceman]

@jeffstukas lol

[DutchPow3r]

What is the point of selling no-follow links?

[fferrero2008]

@jeffstukas What?