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Why Doesn’t Google Like Paid Links?
By Jeffrey Eisenberg
April 17th, 2007
The blogosphere’s heated discussion continues and Seobook contributes a strong post on Threadwatch.org. Do you agree with his reasoning about why Google doesn’t like paid links?
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Jeffrey Eisenberg, founder of FutureNow, is a professional marketing speaker and the co-author of New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling books Call to Action and Waiting For Your Cat to Bark. You can friend him on Facebook.
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April 17th, 2007
1:26 pm
Google uses links as a signal of quality, not a measure of the depth of a website owner’s pocket. I don’t understand what the beef is…hasn’t Google always disliked the idea of paid links?
I’d bet that the most noise is coming from the people buying the most links to gain ranking on Google. They don’t want their nice little secret let out of the bag.