83% of SEO’s don’t yet report paid links
The results are in from our poll asking whether you report paid links or not.
After Google’s propaganda and the publicity behind the issue I was expecting more people to have reported paid links. The full results are below:
- No - 72%
- Yes - 17%
- Not yet but I probably will - 11%
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I’ll leave the detection to the algorithm.
Marketing Hub January 18, 2008 1:44 am | Reply
i’m with Marketing Hub. it’s not my business.
julien January 18, 2008 7:40 am |
ReplyAgreed! Google makes enough money to hire and program the necessary tools to detect these links themselves. Don’t do their job for them.
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Alex January 18, 2008 3:35 am | Reply
All the publicity & propaganda has only highlighted one thing…. its them against us! Like Marketing hub said… let the algorithm detect it!
Mcfly January 18, 2008 3:38 am | Reply
Wasn’t a NARC in the 80’s, not going to be one now.
Arnie January 18, 2008 2:45 pm | Reply
my goodness, i love pie graphs
sir jorge January 18, 2008 3:02 pm | Reply
I think the question, that still remains somewhat ambiguous, is… what constitutes a paid link?
Si
Simon Dance January 18, 2008 9:46 pm | Reply
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I agree with Simon - the definition of “paid” is still confusing to me.
Lori January 22, 2008 11:09 pm | Reply
Dare i say that almost all websites have paid for some listings in one form or another…
Perry_T January 23, 2008 8:34 pm | Reply
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Google should make it to find the paid links throught their own technology to solve the problem. otherwise, it may cause more problems. What if someone intensionally trapped his competitors by reporting the paid links, which are created by himself, not his competitors.
China Tours June 26, 2008 8:48 am | Reply