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But two site owners decided that they can benefit each other if they provide links to each other's site. As I said, I am asking my friend to link my Python's a

by yeukhon 13y ago

But two site owners decided that they can benefit each other if they provide links to each other's site. As I said, I am asking my friend to link my Python's and I link his C++. I can treat him a lunch when I get some ad revenue later. Or just a bro hug. I understand it may not actually be showing what is happening here, but there is some gray area I want to explore. I can also be a celebrity and every week I feature a couple links showing what my friends and my other celebrity friends are doing or writing or making. I may or may not get $$. Maybe just to be friendly (think Youtube, how channel owners help other owners...) Will that violate Google's ToS? I am famous and so helping a few people out shouldn't hurt, right?

toddmatthews 13y ago
You seem to keep using examples with friends or buddies, and no one is gonna fault you for sharing a link to your buddies site from your site, especially if you say "Here's my buddies/friends site...you should check them out"..thats genuine the problem here is they are/were promoting a campaign in which they were asking you to specifically place "beiber" links on your blog, so that they get better page ranks in google. you and you're buddy (or even a celebrity helping out their friend for free) are trying to share a particular link with your blogs viewers, and that single instance will probably not have a crazy effect on google page rank RG is trying to game the system by getting bieber backlinks on a bunch of blogs in trade for a tweet...thats against googles rules