Gee, Google is against buying and selling links but that is its core business. It sells the links through offers of bribes, you put the links on your sites as an affilate website on their farm and they sell the links and pay you a vig for your "account."

It would be okay if you calmed down and notice the squeeze play. It used to be called "monopolistic behavior" where someone says here is my product, you make more money; don’t sell anyone else’s. Didn't Microsoft try that same thing and get reamed for it?

It is nice that Google does not like sites buying and selling links, perhaps it should stop the practice? It nice that you think the offer of money for links is immoral, but why do you sell them through Google then? Do you think a Goolge delivered advertising for wheelchairs is contextual for a cartoon site?

Is this getting to be like some cult religion where if you sell links to any other cult the master cult will put you to the "question?"

Google is a huge web farm of capitulating sites dedicated to one search god for the daily bread of buying and selling links. These affiliated sites adhere to strict rules to bring top listings to their paid link web farm of Made for Adsense websites. Each site consists of a limited amount of content, usually much less content than advertising. Google allows their web farm owners to place upwards of 6 huge ad sections per page and each sites takes advantage of this even placing the sold links in the middle of small stories.

The biggest problem today is that the MFAS websites are content-less with key worded bull instead of the content someone searches for. They are the top pages of the search returns on Google and basically if you are looking for something these days you get these sites instead of what you are looking for. Google is failing through over sanitation. A site with 70 google text ads on it and one paragraph about a topic with a link to another MFAS is maddening even for jaded old schoolers like myself. I find Google more useless each day as sites adhere to its rules with nothing in them at all except the keywords and rules Google likes to find. While many legitimate sites work within the rule set, their business is not Google adsense even if they augment their earnings with it. Most sites just want the adsense and pass bull under the ads to try to get their daily bread.

Google's monopoly is being enhanced through puppets that hang in these forums to march along the dotted lines encouraging everyone into Google's Web Farm Affiliate program called adsense. It is a legitimate piece of business for a company to ask exclusivity in contextual advertising on a site, but it is not legitimate to demand you not sell direct links or garner your wages in other directions.

The difference between you making posts and paying someone else? You hired someone. Google does not want you to hire anyone. If you do not go and do it Google thinks it sucks. But that is only for you, big companies on the top of their search have large staff that do it, so they are salaried, not paid to do it. Someone makes an account with some depth and sells it to you or you hire someone to build that? The stupidity is to buy it and not continue to milk your cow. Even more stupidity seems to arise when you think hiring people, or paying for their work is wrong. Perhaps in this context Google is trying to keep you all mom and pop operations so that you cannot expand? How many posts and work like that can one person do and still run their real site (if they have one)?

Google is plainly trying to bully its web farm affiliates into its monopoly and it will come down for this practice. Reading these posts makes it plain to see the carrot and stick works well and most people will just shiver to follow the yellow brick road allowing Google to ban competition from its web farm affiliates sites. Web farm affiliates will help Google capture its monopoly through fear. That is evil - that is Google.

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