JohnV asked 3 years agoI have frequently seen mention of penalising websites which purchase links.
How are search engines able to determine if a link had been paid for or not?
3 Answers
JackTen answered 3 years ago
Google automatically detects “odd” things. For example at the very beginning people could make a website with “gambling gambling gambling gambling gambling gambling” etc and get good results. Keyword stuffing etc.
Nowadays it’s more advanced but they still detect a lot of link sales. IE if your website is about garden hoses and you have a do-follow link to a bingo portal, on 1000 indexed pages… it looks su****ious.
Nowadays it’s more advanced but they still detect a lot of link sales. IE if your website is about garden hoses and you have a do-follow link to a bingo portal, on 1000 indexed pages… it looks su****ious.
JohnV answered 3 years ago
Sure. I guess my question is more in relation to links from one site of gambling related content to another.
heimdall answered 3 years ago
@JackTen 201172 wrote:
Google automatically detects “odd” things. For example at the very beginning people could make a website with “gambling gambling gambling gambling gambling gambling” etc and get good results. Keyword stuffing etc.
Nowadays it’s more advanced but they still detect a lot of link sales. IE if your website is about garden hoses and you have a do-follow link to a bingo portal, on 1000 indexed pages… it looks su****ious.
Does that mean that sitewide links are really bad now, I know they have been worth less than they used to be but didn’t know that they are now being penalised?
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