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I can’t read that link – I get some sort of sign-up page instead …
However – based on what has been said underneath it sound the right way to go to me … purchased links should transfer ZERO PR.
Although I have no idea how the hell they tell.
yes,
than you should sign up, sorry about that,anyway, a Google guy states there they can,(most of the time?) differ between payed links and free,
if that’s what you meanHi 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.
Once again is a matter of aging and growing naturally.
A two months old site listed in 10 PR5 index pages is no doubt buying links.
For 3 y.o. website listed in 20 PR5 index pages , There’s no way to know whether the links are paid or not.
This is what Adam Lasnik, google employee says:
“How does google distinguish between links that have been bought for advertising and links that have been bought for page rank manipulation? Or does google distinguish between the two?
Yes, we do have a pretty strong ability to discern intent in this area. A site that’s buying links on high-PR sites with *clearly* no interest in or reasonable expectation of actual traffic… it does set off alarm bells. And sometimes it’s rather amusingly blatant (“But Adam… I really do expect thousands of eager targeted visitors to my Icelandic-Cheap-Flights.tv site from that tiny white-on-white text link buried 3 levels deep on PR7 HotGardeningTips4U.info!”)
No system is perfect, and we’re always refining how we interpret intent and how we use this and related information to improve our search results. And not just in the aggregate sense: many of us Googlers are regularly using individuals’ sites mentioned around the Web (including on our own Webmaster Help Google Group) as valuable data points.
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