83% of SEO’s don’t yet report paid links

by Patrick Altoft on January 17, 2008

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%

Paid links poll

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Marketing Hub 18 Jan 2008 at 1:44 am: I’ll leave the detection to the algorithm.
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Mcfly 18 Jan 2008 at 3:38 am: All the publicity & propaganda has only highlighted one thing…. its them against us! Like Marketing hub said… let the algorithm detect it!
julien 18 Jan 2008 at 7:40 am: i’m with Marketing Hub. it’s not my business.
Blake 18 Jan 2008 at 12:48 pm: Agreed! Google makes enough money to hire and program the necessary tools to detect these links themselves. Don’t do their job for them.
Arnie 18 Jan 2008 at 2:45 pm: Wasn’t a NARC in the 80’s, not going to be one now.
sir jorge 18 Jan 2008 at 3:02 pm: my goodness, i love pie graphs
Simon Dance 18 Jan 2008 at 9:46 pm: I think the question, that still remains somewhat ambiguous, is… what constitutes a paid link?

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Lori 22 Jan 2008 at 11:09 pm: I agree with Simon – the definition of “paid” is still confusing to me.
Perry_T 23 Jan 2008 at 8:34 pm: Dare i say that almost all websites have paid for some listings in one form or another…
China Tours 26 Jun 2008 at 8:48 am: 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.
Cash Makers 06 Mar 2009 at 10:03 pm: Only if site is competing with me