Hi all,
I’m certainly no SEO expert but I fail to see how google or anybody else can tell if I paid to have the link http://www.bondedcasinos.com placed on somebody’s site.
if somebody liked what I had to say and didn’t get paid to link to me … the link is still going to read http://www.bondedcasinos.com.
No way getting around that! If they did try to distinguish between the two it opens a huge can of worms that there’s no way anybody’d ever convince me some damn computer program is going to be able to tell the difference when an educated SEO expert couldn’t tell the difference though I admit they’d have a much, much better chance of spotting that it was a paid link vs non-paid.
the closest I can think of that some program would be using would be if they were looking for links which weren’t in some kind of text like for instance if I said here that you should visit http://www.bondedcasinos.com because I think its a great place to be …. as opposed to just having that link show up somewhere on the page without any kind of text eluding to it.
but that said … it still leaves such a huge hole for mistakes its not funny.
my (unpaid) 2 cents.