Will Google Act On Bought Links?

... in the future ...

[AthlonInside]

One of the most easy way to get thousand of links is to BUY them. Maybe paying 100-200 get you linked from 2000+ pages?! less or more ...

So, I personally don't think Google will penalized the 'advertiser' but I think it would be possible for Google to easily reduce or even eliminate the weight of the links send to the 'advertiser'. What do you think?

[UK_Web_Guy]

Regarding the question asked in AthlonInside's original post I can confirm on this latest backlinks update I have seem a lot more PR selling sites loose their PR passing power.

Some even relevant to the ad's they are showing, so I think the answer to this original question is a definite YES, they are acting on bought links - and looks to me like it is at an increasing pace!

[steve128]

Google does not care if you pay for links or not, a free link from an unrelated PR8 site is just as worthless as a paid one regards rankings.
But the high PR link will encourage "freshie" Then only you can decide how to utilise this bonus -;)

[AthlonInside]

I believe the next move would be against link exchange scheme under famous paid services. :) Actually I have seen some effect few months ago. Those guys from GooglePlex will definitely work harded as the algo will be more complicated on detecting links over a same domain (in the case of links buying).