Adwords kicks off paid link sellers

Google has been beating its chest about websites selling and buying links for some time now. They don’t like it, we get it guys. Recently they penalised a whole bunch of websites for selling links in their big PR update. This caused a huge amount of uproar and many of the penalised websites had their penalties rescinded.

What was getting the goats of a lot of people however was the fact that Google actively punished sites selling text links while at the same time profited from the very same sites advertising the sale of text links on Google’s Adwords platform.

Google was being very hypocritical. If they don’t like it happening, why support it and profit from it themselves? Well, now they’ve put pay to that one and have banned Adwords ads from showing for a great many text-link related keywords, including ‘paid links’.

As you can see, no Adwords ads.

This marks the next step in Google’s battle to reduce paid links in order to keep their index ‘pure’. If you’re doing paid reviews or selling paid links on your website, remember, Google is watching!

Darren
Affiliate Marketing