Buying and selling links that pass PageRank is forbidden by Google and will get your site banned
Created on Thursday, 14 April 2011 20:28 Published Date Written by Super User Hits: 664
The pressure to get your site found and the need to drive as much traffic to it as possible often drives webmasters to think of buying links in order to drive up PageRank which, as you have guessed, has often tempted those who have established, respected sites think of monetizing them by selling links. Doing either of these can be the kiss of death for a webmaster and here is why: The pressure to get your site found and the need to drive as much traffic to it as possible often drives webmasters to think of buying links in order to drive up PageRank which, as you have guessed, has often tempted those who have established, respected sites think of monetizing them by selling links. Doing either of these can be the kiss of death for a webmaster and here is why:
Both of these activities have now officially entered Google’s banned activity list and the fact is stated clearly on Google’s pages.
This means that if you buy or sell links the Google algorithm which ha snow been sensitized to check for this will eventually spot it and your site will start to drop in Google’s index.
