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Originally Posted by galide
The whole fuss is about people making a fuss of nothing  - we all agree that paid links can hurt a site. |
Not they can not.
- A priori they can give you a positive or zero (>= 0) effect without rel="nofollow".
- A posteriori the effect can be zero where deleted from the index, that is completely zeroed out is the lower limit.
I thought paid links was fully discussed here:
The Ongoing PageRank Massacre Hits Big Players
Eliminating an undeserved positive or manipulative effect is no hurt in my understanding of the original posters intentinon of the topic.
Please return to 2nd post that answered the question and the 3rd that confirmed it.
The only addition is IMO that algorithms are not perfect. Hopefully they are getting better. That has also been discussed.