Comments on: A new rise in Google abuse

By: Chico

Chico — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:57:20 +0000

I am in agreement with Scott. If you can buy links or sell them why not. It is nothing more than just business.

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 07:32:26 +0000

I'm not talking about people who email asking for links - I'm talking about people who try to buy a (very unrelated) link. "Hi, I notice you have a popular site about quotations. Can you link to my site about Viagra?)"

The site in question has a PR that varies from 7 to 8, hence the popularity for these requests.

Needless to say, the sites sending the requests tend to be PR0 sites. I don't want them to link to my site, and might even get banned from Google for linking to them...

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:43:52 +0000

I don't think these are abuses at all. This is the arena built by Google. In order to achieve a high pagerank (i.e. survive), other good sites must link to your site. How does this happen? Should we sit on a stool in the ice-cream shop and wait to be discovered? No, silly, you email the webmasters and ask for a link. I would view the offer of money as a red-flag, though. If they are not good enough for a gratis link, then maybe they're just not good enough.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:31:26 +0000

You have a page rank (PR) of 6. That is very good, but it is not so good that some extra links pointing to you wouldn't hurt. IF the sites that want a link from you suck, are porn, have nothing to do with your type of site, or have a really low PR why not exchange links with them?

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:48:59 +0000

Four emails this month on the same subject. The trend continues...