Comments on: Text Link Ads are they being punished? http://www.seounique.com/blog/text-link-ads-are-they-being-punished/ SEO & Internet Marketing Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:27:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Anthony Lawrence http://www.seounique.com/blog/text-link-ads-are-they-being-punished/#comment-422 Anthony Lawrence Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:34:13 +0000 http://www.seounique.com/blog/text-link-ads-are-they-being-punished/#comment-422 As Google has told us, if we add 'rel="nofollow"' to our tags, we're fine. So if your advertisers are really buying text links for advertising and not just link-love, there's no problem.. so it's not really about selling links, it's about selling PR. But how does Google know that any link isn't for that reason? I have a large page of Unix and Linux Consultants.. it's a free listing, so I'm not "selling" anything, but Google doesn't know that, and they don't know WHY I do this, so I have to add "nofollow" to those too.. And then what about Book and Product reviews? Google might misinterpret that also, so I add it there too.. and then I realize this is silly: I might as well add "nofollow" everywhere! More at http://aplawrence.com/Web/more_google_slap.html As Google has told us, if we add ‘rel=”nofollow”‘ to our tags, we’re fine. So if your advertisers are really buying text links for advertising and not just link-love, there’s no problem.. so it’s not really about selling links, it’s about selling PR.

But how does Google know that any link isn’t for that reason? I have a large page of Unix and Linux Consultants.. it’s a free listing, so I’m not “selling” anything, but Google doesn’t know that, and they don’t know WHY I do this, so I have to add “nofollow” to those too..

And then what about Book and Product reviews? Google might misinterpret that also, so I add it there too.. and then I realize this is silly: I might as well add “nofollow” everywhere!

More at http://aplawrence.com/Web/more_google_slap.html

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