{"id":2640,"date":"2007-10-29T23:30:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/paid-text-links-cause-of-huge-google-pagerank-penalties\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:28:53","slug":"paid-text-links-cause-of-huge-google-pagerank-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/paid-text-links-cause-of-huge-google-pagerank-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid Text Links Cause of Huge Google PageRank Penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was well reported that <strong>Google Pagerank of top sites is dropping<\/strong> across the web as the latest Google Pagerank update progresses. However, more clarity has started emerging on the issue&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Paid Text Links Unleash Google PageRank Penalties<\/h3>\n<p>1. Matt Cutts (top Google engineer) emailed Search Engine Journal to confirm that the partial Google Toolbar PageRank update which happened last week was a result of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/matt-cutts-confirms-paid-links-google-pagerank-update\/5906\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Google&#8217;s campaign against paid linking<\/a> and advertisement links which influence PageRank. Problogger Darren Rowse managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2007\/10\/27\/the-google-page-rank-pendulum-swings-again\/\" rel=\"noopener\">get his PR6 back<\/a> and confirms from two sources at Google that this latest round of updates was <strong>ALL about the selling of text links<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Andy Beard is comparing the previous 3 pagerank updates and reporting that some blogs have started <strong>regaining pagerank<\/strong>, while more fresh cases of dropping pagerank are reported. Our Pagerank also dropped from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/google-pagerank-drops-pr6-to-pr3\/\">PR6 to PR3<\/a> and is still at the same level. I hope they fix the issue as we do not buy or sell text links.<\/p>\n<p>3. This will definitely <strong>stress the business model of paid text link services<\/strong>. Some reports of payment issues with Text Link Ads are coming in. I am sure lots of webmasters would have removed paid text links by now to preserve whatever pagerank they got.<\/p>\n<p>4. DoshDosh says Google Pagerank does not matter and advises you to &#8220;stop getting so worked up over something so inconsequential.&#8221; John Chow, who often <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnchow.com\/turning-a-negative-into-a-positive\/\" rel=\"noopener\">rides against the Google tide<\/a> says that link sellers will come up with a new pricing system that won&#8217;t include PageRank.<\/p>\n<p>Are you still selling paid text links on your blog? Google is watching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was well reported that Google Pagerank of top sites is dropping across the web as the latest Google Pagerank&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,3,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-blogging","category-google","category-search-engine-optimization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}