Paid links are now being penalized by Google
After the official statement of Google here its actually Matt Cutts (Google Engineer) who told that you can report websites that are selling links. Someone in Digitalpoint ask if it will kill Text-link-ads?
My personal opinion on these is I don’t think it would happen. This is a big company in America and they can still get lot of publisher and advertiser eventhough Google has already taking actions on paid links. There are lot of good points where put up on the comments on the blog post. There are about 300+ and counting comments on the blog post. Here are few questions that came to my mind and base on the people responding on the blog.
1. Will I get banned from Google SERPs if I will be proven that I’m selling links?
2. If the penalty is not banning our website from Google SERPs what would exactly be the penalty?
3. How will Google know if its paid link or not?
4. Would you penalize Yahoo directory as well?
5. Or does Google will treat Directories to be excluded on this policy.
6. Will this policy should be applied to all? What about big company?
7. Why not penalize first text-link-ads and other text link broker? What are the action that Google will take on these text link brokers?
8. Whats next?
This is one of the popular blog post I guess by Matt Cutts. There are lot of negative comments about these move by Google. Especially the owners of websites that are selling text links to make a living. Kudos to Google for this move. But sadly some people will lose earnings or even their business. I just hope that this move will improve the search results.
