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DigitalORDER is a pr 4, SO…
If you happen to not be a member of a webmaster related forum, you may not have heard but Google has finally released updated pageranks. If you dont know what pagerank is, click for an explanation.
Whats the big deal?
Until about 6 months ago, a high pr would allow you to make some pretty good money by selling text links. But Google doesn’t like people selling text links because by buying enough text links for a certain keyword, you are able to skew the natural search results to make your site show up in the first position for a keyword. So, for the past 6 months on top of postponing the pr update, Google has been penalizing the search engine rankings of sites selling text links. So while previously I would have been been able to make some pretty good cash off of digitalorder’s pr4 selling links through TLA or TNX, now if I do that, I risk a search engine ranking penalty.
Is the risk worth it?
It all depends on your blogs priorities. For this blog the priority is to provide quality articles to help my readers and me learn. Though if the priority of your blog is to make money and you still want to sell links you probally should be a little more discreet about it. If you use a network to serve your links make sure the php is properly installed and you arent broadcasting for Google’s crawler the fact that you are selling links. If at all possible I would suggest handling your text sales privately.
Conclusion:
- If you depend on text links for money, be discreet.
- If you depend on google for traffic, dont sell links.
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You remove my link in the sidebar. Not a good idea.
And you are?
nice work with the PR4… im still only a two. so hopefully I get a nice boost on the next update!
I’ve come around on this situation to agree with google, and you as well. Buying and selling text links provides an unfair advantage over those of us trying to do it the legit way.