Possible Compromise to Google Paid Link Fiasco

[lesterj]

Hi,

There's been a lot of talk about the PR penalties for paid links. My
site was one of those who received the penalty. I do understand
Google wanting to implement this policy for their search engine. My
problem is that the solution Google requests of using the "no follow"
option either forces you to effect all the search engines or the whole
page. If I use the "nofollow" attribute in the link itself, then it
not only tells Google not to follow the link, but Live, Yahoo, and any
other search engine that pays mind to it. If I use the robot.txt, I
can specify that only Google shouldn't follow, but then it applies to
the whole page, including our navigation menu, links to announcements,
etc. I want to comply with Google, but both solutions are overkill.
What's the Chinese proverb about using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

So, I think I've come up with a solution, but I'd like all of your opinions on
whether Google would be alright with this (and it would work). I was
thinking of putting any paid text links in their own I-frame. The I-
frame could have the robot meta tag telling Googlebot (not the other SEs) not to follow
the links. This way Google's terms are met as we are not selling text
links without applying the "no follow" for Google. Google also will
still be able to follow the other links of the website which do not
need the "no follow" tag. We also will not be excluding the other
search engines, who do not have the same rules as Google.

Do you see any problems with this solution?

Thanks.

KS

[incrediblehelp]

KS your solution is the exact same thing as marking the URL with the nofollow attribute. The whole deal here is we shouldnt have to tell Google that we are selling links on our website, let alone be punished for it.