Thread: Is this a violation of Google's TOS?
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Old 01-14-2009, 07:12 PM
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Default Re: Is this a violation of Google's TOS?
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Originally Posted by shakir View Post
Selling links is violating, but what u r doing is good way that u r updating utr content alos regarding the sold links. its good and technically no problem on it
Ummm. it violates the content guidelines but the TOS (Terms of Service) I'm not so sure of. Remember also that selling links is also breaking the content guidelines (this is as good of an example of a paid link as I've seen on here) so not only you but the author has broken the guidelines if the links do not include rel="NoFollow". So I'd say only buy them as advertising I wouldn't buy them for SEO. That said if the author sells you advertising and doesn't use the rel="NoFollow" then they have broken the content guidelines and that could cause you a problem down the road. Exactly the degree to which it may be a problem is not known for sure. At the very least it is added risk and should be treated in that manner.
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