Danny Sullivan has managed to get some feedback from someone at Google confirmed visible PageRank penalties are being applied, as much as a -2 on what is displayed on the Google Toolbar. This post was my follow on from my post yesterday: Dancing With The Gevil: Defamed By Google? Fair enough, for those people who have been caught selling links primarily for boosting … [Read more...]
Google Paid Links
Google Sliding Down The Slippery Slope of Evildom Matt Cutts has again been writing about paid links and has also jumped into the sponsored themes discussion, invoking the power of the Google Webspam team from behind the protection of a carefully worded disclaimer. As Matt says: This is my personal blog. The views expressed on these pages are mine alone and not those of my … [Read more...]