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Why is that against the rules? Asking for links is not against the rules.
by sixQuarks 11y ago
Why is that against the rules? Asking for links is not against the rules.
- artursapek 11y agoAsking for links just to boost search engine ranking is at least frowned upon, if not "against the rules". See this[1] for an extreme example of how seriously Google takes this. [1] http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2321516/rap-genius-no-seo-genius-lyric-site-fails-to-recover-traffic-after-google-penalty http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2321516/rap-genius-no-...
- BadCookie 11y agoHere's a summary of Google's position on the subject: http://searchengineland.com/google-its-unnatural-to-even-ask-for-links-to-your-site-224802 http://searchengineland.com/google-its-unnatural-to-even-ask... It's not very clear what sort of asking is permitted, but I'm pretty sure that the sort of asking that Paul Ingraham is doing is not ok. He's specifically asking people to create links in a way that is unnatural.
- monk_e_boy 11y agoSure google hate it as it games the system. You pay for links and your site rises up the natural search. This eats into their AdWords service and pollutes natural search. But big websites that aren't ad driven use paid links to fund the site. We were paying big sites (think three letter domain names, top five newspaper sites, etc) for links. Say a paper writes an article on car insurance - wouldn't it be nice if they linked to our customers site and 'forgot' to mention a big competitor. Money will make that happen. So how can google punish these big sites? They are put in an impossible situation.