Sponsored Links

Are they not couned anymore?

[tictoc]

I noticed that when websites have paid listings or sponsored links the sites they link too do not seem to carry over the high rankings for it. I wonder if anyone else has seen this.

[Marcia]

Do you mean the rankings in the SERPs, or the Page Rank not carrying over?

[tictoc]

Rankings in the SERPS..

[angiolo]

I have a similar question.

For a new site I got a link from a PR 8 Page Rank with only 12 outgoing links: I gained no Page Rank and google does not report that backlink.

Both Fast and Altavista shows that backlink

Why google does not report that backlink?

[jbgilbert]

Great questions guys... Many of these high PR "sponsored" links cost money and some sites are making a hefty income from selling these links.

Personally, I wish the SE WOULD discount these links and penalize the people selling them, but that probably is not happening.

Right now it seems to be more of an issue of the Google backlinks and PR not being updated... Something is going on here:
- Google has some type of issue with PR & backlink processing?
- Google is preparing to roll out something big and new to handle PR & backlinks?
- Google has decided that they are no longer obligated to show us PR & backlink information?

Any other possibilities I missed here?

[4eyes]

At a guess, either Google just hasn't foud the link yet, or the PR8 site has got a 'can't pass on PR' penalty imposed.

[jimh009]

> At a guess, either Google just hasn't foud the link yet, or the PR8 site has got a 'can't pass on PR' penalty imposed.

Or, Google has figured out a sneaky way how to determine when a site is "selling" links instead of just giving them. This may not be as hard as you think - it could be simply be a list of web sites that, once found, are listed as selling back links. As these pages from these sites all share similar styles, it would be easy to pick out and ignore the "sponosored links" from more normal links.

Jim