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Footer?
links page?
every page?
menu?
5 pages?
10 pages?
I think you get where im going with this now! Maybe not all the sites are going to be relevant sites...
what are your thoughts? ...
You are correct that some SEOs will file a report. However, anyone who creates a quality content site knows that bloggers link to sites they like. Visit any blog, they're linking sitewide to all kinds of quality websites. That's why something like that is difficult to automate with an algo.
High quality websites attract a wide range of links, some of which are sitewides from blogs. These kinds of sites that generate unencouraged links are the kinds all search engines want to display. Any site that is so good it generates citations from forums, news sites, blogs, wikis and other kinds of sites are quality sites. Being in several sitewides is not an SEO footprint.
You are correct that some SEOs will file a report. However, anyone who creates a quality content site knows that bloggers link to sites they like. Visit any blog, they're linking sitewide to all kinds of quality websites.
Quality sites buy TLAs too so I am not sure that argument holds water. Most sitewide links I see on competitors backlink lists are TLAs and I have yet to see a site selling TLAs that does it subtly, if people did, I wouldn't have such a personal issue with them as a IM technique.
Like I said though, just because I report it doesn't mean Google does anything with that information (yet). I have been reporting paid links ever since the feature came out in WMT and nought has happened to the cheats buying TLAs as far as I can see.
But I don't expect Google to stop doing nothing for long ;)
cheats
Google's done nothing about paid links in an awful long time. I disagree that they're going to do nothing for long - I think you're going to see it working for quite a long time into the future. I've moved away from buying links as much as I can, but only because I'm risk averse.
As a wise friend of mine pointed out, Google doesn't care about paid links. they care about the SERPS. And if they're managing to provide quality, relevant results in the framework of paid links, why would they care? Of course, they wouldn't. The fact is, most of the serps, including the ones with paid link sites ranking, are fine for users. Paid links being extremely difficult to detect, and in todays environment where even Google is cutting back, why would they invest more effort into this? They won't.
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Quality sites do not have to. You need to raise the bar on what you consider quality.
For instance, you mentioned article directories for backlinks. Quality sites do not engage in article directory submissions. If that's what you think then you need to raise the bar on what you consider quality. An article directory backlink is a definite SEO footprint.
[edited by: martinibuster at 6:46 pm (utc) on Dec. 13, 2008]
I think having a link on the home pages will be of more benefit to me. With a small paragraph.
This always baffled me.
Who the heck gives out home page links, other than blog-like CMS systems that might do it by default or maybe news sites?
My home page is MY home page. You want home page links, build your own homepage.
Quality sites do not have to. You need to raise the bar on what you consider quality.
a wise friend of mine pointed out, Google doesn't care about paid links. they care about the SERPS. And if they're managing to provide quality, relevant results in the framework of paid links, why would they care? Of course, they wouldn't. The fact is, most of the serps, including the ones with paid link sites ranking, are fine for users. Paid links being extremely difficult to detect, and in todays environment where even Google is cutting back, why would they invest more effort into this? They won't.
Of course the SERPs are the most important thing, but if you are telling me that TLAs etc. don't dirty the water of the SERPs then you are blind or not doing enough monitorng of your competitors.
And paid links for PR are gaming the system and against Googles TOS.
Squarely in between only two other links - Wikipedia, for the same topic, and About.com
Google Algo to human employee: "Alert: there is a new site on page one for the keyword widgets, go check it out!" seems very plausible to me.
The end message, build for humans.
Shhh, don't tell everyone...
When you talk about SERPs you minning about search results i suppose.
martinibuster what is the mining for "algo" ? the spanish mining ?
TLA is a site that sells links ?
What is TOS ? Googles "TOS"
Thanks alot.
ALGO = Algorithm. A set of computer instructions for accomplishing a given task. In this case it's for ranking web pages. More information here [infolab.stanford.edu].
TLA is a site that sells links.
Google's TOS = That's actually not a correct way to reference what they mean. What they mean is Google's Quality Guidelines [google.com]
