Someone Wants To Buy A Link On My Website. Should I Sell? - DailyBlogTips

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Someone Wants To Buy A Link On My Website. Should I Sell? Posted: 11 Feb 2011 05:02 AM PST This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Eric Cummings asks: I received the following email today. Is this a good idea, or is this person trying to game Google? If so, I don’t want my search rankings to go down. I’m curious if you’ve seen anything like this before. First of all let me quote the email that Eric received. Here it is: Hello, I was reading http://www.onviolence.com/?e=174 and had a comment from the piece. I really enjoyed reading your take on Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms.” I agree that World War I really was meaningless in the end, there was no real reward or good that came out of it. Also, I’m interested in purchasing a text link on this post, that would go to an education site offering history degrees. The site is http://www.example.com. I can pay $100 for the link via PayPal and give you a call or email back details if you are interested. Thanks If you have a blog or website, you probably received something similar in the past, right? I get around one of those emails per day…. When your site is relatively new or small, the idea of earning $100 to insert a link on an article, which will take literally one minute of your time, is tempting. But should you do it? In my opinion, no. Purchasing and selling links that pass juice (i.e., that don’t have the nofollow tag) violate Google’s policy, and as a result your site can get penalized if you do it. The penalty itself will vary from case to case. I have seen websites that were selling links and only lost their nominal PageRank as a penalty, meaning that the search rankings and traffic from Google stayed the same. On other cases the search rankings were affected as well, drastically reducing the organic traffic from Google to the website. Overall I don’t think the risk is worth the reward. If you decide to sell the link you’ll earn $100 today, but the result might be the loss of tens of thousands of visitors from Google in the future. Over to the readers: Have you sold links in the past? Did you ever get penalized? What do you about the issue? Original Post: Someone Wants To Buy A Link On My Website. Should I Sell?

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