Comments on: Death to the “Paid Link”

By: Reality Check: Are Paid Links a Smart SEO Investment?

Reality Check: Are Paid Links a Smart SEO Investment? — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:32:01 +0000

[...] agree with people like Ross Hudgens who think it’s wise to talk about paid links in relation to disruptive links vs non-disruptive links. Some will continue to swear that there’s nothing wrong or abnormal with intelligent paid link [...]

By: Link building Peter

Link building Peter — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:05:29 +0000

The strange thing is that so many hotel websites are relying at paid links, why can google even in 2011 still not track down all the sites who are making (ab)use of paid links? The J.C. Penny story one example that Google cannot find in time all sites who using paid links. Even Google can discover now bettter and better unnatural link patterns, they still cannot track down all paid links. It is not risking worth to buy links, but in some niches you have to. it would be better if google would be smart enough to spot easily paid links

By: Scalable Linkbuilding with @RossHudgens on #SEOchat | Search Marketing Weekly

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:47:48 +0000

[...] SEO menial tasks fine if you are a good manager and stay on top of it. See here for more depth: http://www.rosshudgens.com/death-to-the-paid-link/. Non-disruptive links mean they don’t jar the user when they see them. They BELONG there. [...]

By: Link Building For Life: Determining Lifetime Link Value

Link Building For Life: Determining Lifetime Link Value — Tue, 17 May 2011 12:41:31 +0000

[...] is not off topic on the domain in question. Manipulative, off-topic links trigger disdain in the users that observe them. Even if historical trends show an upward climb, if [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:50:40 +0000

I always think of links as akin to a billboard. The most expensive billboards are in the best location right? Google has created this monster themselves with the Whole Page Rank + No/Dofollow of the links. There has got to be another way! I have a feeling that PR will evolve in the coming years and nofollow will be a dinosaur term.

By: Google, Guest Blogging and SEO

Google, Guest Blogging and SEO — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:27:40 +0000

[...] Of course, as one of my favourite SEOs, Ross Hudgeons, has pointed out, manipulation is only a bad thing when it disrupts the user experience. [...]

By: 王宇飞

王宇飞 — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:46:18 +0000

I don’t think the commercial tag can solve the problem, if i want to buy i link i will buy the links don’t have commercial tag.

By: Nikunj Tamboli

Nikunj Tamboli — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:29:32 +0000

Great article on the paid link Ross, the paid link stuff is getting complicating as people are more confused whether to buy links or to go Google way, the one of solution to the problem may be Google & other search engine introduce some html tags like link =”commercial” at end of the link just the way like nofollow tag, many of the said problem solved & the value of link buying will depend on search engines on how to treat them.

By: Google’s Reasonable Surfer Model: A Scalable Solution to Paid Links? « Network Downtown

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:45:09 +0000

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By: Google’s Reasonable Surfer Model: A Scalable Solution to Paid Links? | Search Engine Journal

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:01:48 +0000

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