{"id":4552,"date":"2008-07-19T17:35:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T21:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/selling-links-can-land-you-in-trouble\/"},"modified":"2008-07-19T17:35:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T21:35:47","slug":"selling-links-can-land-you-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/selling-links-can-land-you-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Links Can Land You In Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>Google confirms <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/archives\/017658.html\" target=\"_blank\">Newsday.com received penalty for selling links<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Advertising, or selling links? It&#8217;s fine a fine line but when crossed can have some serious repercussions. Google position is that they don&#8217;t like it when you sell links only for PageRank. Instead sell banners and text ads that draw traffic to your site &#8211; if they pass a little PageRank, that&#8217;s OK!<\/p>\n<p>So what happened to Newsday? Well, Google caught them selling links and penalized them for it. Perhaps overtime they&#8217;ll recover as most sites which receive a penalty do.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to sell links from your site then you have to do it through back room. Don&#8217;t announce it on your site, don&#8217;t send the requests via email. Telephones are the only way to go in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Our opinion? Don&#8217;t buy or sell links for PageRank. Most business rely too heavily on Google for the traffic and it simply is not worth the risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google confirms Newsday.com received penalty for selling links! Advertising, or selling links? It&#8217;s fine a fine line but when crossed can have some serious repercussions. Google position is that they&hellip;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1265,1266,531,1267,532],"class_list":["post-4552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-buying-links-2","tag-paid-links-2","tag-search-engine-optimization-2","tag-selling-links-2","tag-seo-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}