Its official, Selling links may harm your PR
Well its confirmed now, Danny Sullivan confirmed the news, some high PR websites have seen a PR drop after selling links on their pages, however this has’t effected the rankings of the website, but in the case of text-link-ads their website was de-indexed!
High PR sites such as The Stanford Daily which has a PR9 and dropped to a PR8 have been clearly selling links, Google says those checks are made manually to make sure the website is selling links, this is good news, since most probably they will be checking high PR sites, but if you want to play it safe with Google, you better not sell links, I guess i’ll be removing the text-link-ads box on my blog this month, I am glad that I haven’t relied on selling links and that I am currently concentrating on CPM ads.
Talking of CPM ads reminds me to finish the post that I’ve had in my drafts for almost a week now about the different monetization methods you can use for your sites, hopefully I’ll be posting it on the next couple of days.
[tags]text links, CPM ads, high PR sites[/tags]
October 18th, 2007 at 5:02 am
yeah i heard that and lucky i dont sell any…
October 25th, 2007 at 2:01 am
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