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Link Sellers: Google Don’t Want Yo Money
Today, in what means to me that they REALLY mean business, Google decided that you can’t advertise with them if you’re trying to promote the selling of links that pass page rank.
Google continues to crack down on those text link advertising methods which don’t carry the “nofollow†attribute as a “machine-readable disclosure.†The latest move, triggered by communication between Google’s web spam team and the Google AdWords department, as Google’s Matt Cutts says, is to disallow the advertising for such PageRank-selling schemes via Google.
The assault on link brokers continues. Gotta give Google credit though… they are putting their money where their mouth is. Wait, does that make sense? I think so.
Filed Under Google, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Text Link Ads
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Google has become the bully of the internet. I really am not a fan of them anymore. I thought it was bad enough when they kicked people out of AdSense for life. Now they are demoting everyone because of social networks. I had PR4’s go to PR1’s. Google is trash.
Google is famous for its heavy handedness. If your PR has been reduced or obliterated there are some steps you can take to get it back. read about it on my blog.
They’re really wanting that call from the US Justice Department aren’t they? It was good to see that Matt Cutts already has his deposition ready on his blog. They can’t ‘lose’ emails like Microsoft did.
I can see the headlines now, “US Government Removed From Google Index”. :)