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Originally Posted by fathom
Choose words carefully:
Surely you mean "if you buy paid links and Google will prevent any value from coming from them [when they find them] and that's the "harm" you speak of...
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Yes that was what I meant. That said, they also include sellers but aren't really specific about how that works. I would make the point that this is the part of the changes to the guidelines that no one knows for sure so... IMO, you are adding risk and there is
possibility or the potential for harm depending on how Google uses the sellers algo. CrankyDave has shared his experience... so I choose to at least take it under advisement... to do otherwise is to just take some old "IBL's can't hurt you deal we had in the past" put on the blinders and go forward thinking nothing has changed... when Google adds a new page to the guidelines you know there is a lot more to it then what meets the eye at first glance!