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Originally Posted by inertia
I saw this happen with 100s of sites and id say the success rate of these link campaigns was 95%.
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Now that is what I would call a valid statement for this forum, without a lot of philosophy.
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Originally Posted by galide
.. and in the absence of proof, I personally tend to base my judgement on what Google has to say about it officially, which is that links cannot have a "negative impact" on ranking.
How to report paid links
"We’ve always tried very hard to prevent site A from hurting site B. That’s why these reports aren’t being fed directly into algorithms, and are being used as the starting point rather than being used directly. You might also want to review the policy mentioned in my 2005 post (individual links can be discounted and sellers can lose their ability to pass on PageRank/anchortext/etc., which doesn’t allow site A to hurt site B)." |
Good one, too.
Now, I am ready to sacrifice one domain for testing purposes around this question. It has PR2, bringing some $100 a month, which translates into pretty good extra spending holiday money.
If anyone wants to set up testing conditions he can send a PM.
Once the conditions set, anyone can do anything he wants to the domain.
If enough interest, I will open a separate thread.