What will happen to paid links implemented using JavaScript?

Magico from London, UK asks:

"Now that Google can crawl JavaScript links, what is going to happen with all those paid links that were behind JavaScript code? Will Google start penalising them?"

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• paid links
• javascript

[hellmind]

Robust isnt robot

[Cozo1981]

great video THanks

[w4stoosh]

Shitme I think have found Geeksville

[vrajesh]

Generally, if you look into javascript, you can easily find the source of JS files with some ad networks url. That way, google can find it.

However, it is very tough to find on the pure paid links (direct links) . For example text-link-ads are very tough to find. Because, they generate pure direct links without giving any idea who is generating the links at all.

At that time, Google possibly can degrade PR, not totally penalize. well, that is my experience.

[woodsandhillsplc]

Good question.

[Webnauts]

I do not understand something here. Can javascript links pass PageRank?

[rtsownage]

They use Google Magic beta of course :rolleyes:

[almightyvegeta87]

But the big question is:

HOW DOES GOOGLE KNOW ABOUT PAID LINKS ?

How Google finds out the difference between paid links and natural backlinks.

Is this a secret ?

[sayweb]

very good.

[raulricardo21]

Please put the translation to spanish