Monday, October 29  

Google Takes Big Stick To Sites That Sell Links

Google has apparently just tweaked the way they rank blogs (like this one) - devaluing many blogs in the process.

The assumption (Google never says) is that it's Google's way of reducing the value of links from sites that sell links.

It's one way for Google to try and reduce the number of link sellers - a practice they don't like as web owners use buying links as a way to get (by deception in Google's eyes) higher search engine rankings.

Google's been warning web masters for many weeks that it is going to do something about sites that buy or sell links - and now they have.

And it's hurting a ton of sites who took the risk - as Matt Cutts (in the video below) from Google says, "It's your site. You can do whatever you want."




This site hasn't been affected because we neither buy or sell links.

Cheers

Brendon

Labels: search engine marketing