Link
Selling Equals Google Juice Squeeze
By David A. Utter
From Google's mouth to Danny Sullivan's
ears came the word on selling links.
He's followed the issue, using the Stanford
Daily student newspaper website as an
example.
Stanford Daily had enjoyed a PageRank
of 9, and a $350 per month revenue stream
per text link. That PR 9 has dwindled
from its position in April, said Danny:
Last week, I noticed the Stanford
Daily had dropped from when I wrote
the above in April to PR7 today. That's
a huge drop that has no apparent reason
to happen. Some others were also reporting
PageRank drops. So I pinged Google,
and they confirmed that PageRank scores
are being lowered for some sites that
sell links.
In addition, Google said that some
sites that are selling links may indeed
end up being dropped from its search
engine or have penalties attached, to
prevent them from ranking well.
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