Comments on: Are You A Google link narc - Do You Know One

By: Webmaster Resources

Webmaster Resources — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:57:26 +0000

I know alot of seos that report paid links to google. Not because they are interested in making google a better search engine but because they are trying to kill competitors.

BTW adsense is javascript based so its not indexed and therefore no need for a nofollow

By: Ilya Lichtenstein

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:04:56 +0000

Isn’t Google’s own AdSense by definition a paid link? Don’t see any nofollow on that…

By: Gerri

Gerri — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:07:49 +0000

Wow.. I didn’t know about this. I don’t buy links, but if I did, wouldn’t they be sort of worthless with the nofollow tag? I mean.. that’s why you want links, to increase PR, right? This sure is a crappy Google policy.

By: SELaplana

SELaplana — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:24:28 +0000

Actually, I was wondering why google wants us to put the condom on our links to advertisers in our sites or blog. I thought at first Google hates competitors like tla, reviewme, ppp or other third party services who sell links. So Google imposed a policy that links to advertisers should be nofollowed in order to kill them by rendering any SEO value of the links useless.

By: Dubai news

Dubai news — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:52:45 +0000

Very interesting concept here in the google blog:
“Buying or selling links to manipulate results and deceive search engines violates our guidelines.”

We are all cows, people treating google guidelines as Laws of the internet. I can place any link I want on my website and provided I am not breaking any real criminal laws they have to lump it.

This is the bully side of Google, its ugly.

By: Teleseminar

Teleseminar — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:16:15 +0000

Wow,

I didn’t know they were doing that! It is rather intrusive of them to tell webmasters how to set up their web sites and do business amongst each other. Well, in the old days before there were really any decent search engines, people got to each other’s sites by using the web, i.e. other people’s websites. They would just go from one site to another.

They still do that, it’s just that it isn’t ans discussed as much anymore.

Also, how can one tell if people are selling links for advertising purposes other than the obvious? Doesn’t it become subjective at some point?

By: Adam_Y

Adam_Y — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:34:01 +0000

I’ve just moved all of my comments out of ‘nofollow’ so that the people that participate in my blog/webcomic get a little something in return… but the point you’ve raised is really interesting, that Google wants to fix the internet so that its search engine works rather than the other way round. It’s like changinf physics so that my glass doesn’t fall over rather than just not putting it on the edge of the table.

Like anyone would narc… until they start paying for it anyway.