Comments on: Secrets out – It’s Trust that Google kills for paid links

By: Jack Strawman

Jack Strawman — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:09:40 +0000

There is so much fear and paranoia surrounding “paid link”. A lot of people think they will be punished or penalized for purchasing links. If this were the case, then I would purchase some links for my competitors and watch them get spanked in the serps.

Also, what if I’m legitimately buying the links for traffic. Google would say that I should then add a no follow to this link. However, I’m not going to request that. If I buy a link that I think will send me traffic, I’m not going to go out of my way to request they make it a no follow link because I’m afraid I might get spanked. That would be silly.

The bottom line is that paid links will never hurt you. They may not help your page rank or position in the SERPS, but they will never hurt you.

By: Rent Brandon

Rent Brandon — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:57:37 +0000

Like Trevor’s idea… stop talking and start working… works for me…

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:58:22 +0000

Thanks Trevor for your valuable input

By: Trevor Nevor

Trevor Nevor — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:58:40 +0000

Ah Paddy “talks a good game” Altoft.
Moneyexpert.com who you made a song and dance about for the entire time still sit top of the UK serps.

Position = success.

Talk = Rubbish.

Stop talking and start doing for a change.

Waffler.

By: Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:05:31 +0000

Good post,Great thoughts and helpful informations……

By: Mario Andrade

Mario Andrade — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:23:51 +0000

If we think about trust at human level we can get some variables that can be converted to the internet.
To trust someone you need time and interaction. Hardly any people will give relevant links and not talk about it.

If a like has been on a website for a litle period of time, maybe it’s not ready to be considered a “trusted” link I say less than 6 months.

There are so many aspects you can consider to get a good trust rank algorithm

By: lee

lee — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:09:18 +0000

Paid links still pass trust, pagerank or whatever you want to call it, provided Google don’t catch on that it was a paid link in the first place

By: Leo Dimilo

Leo Dimilo — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:49:49 +0000

I think you hit the nail on the head. Pagerank = link popularity but trustrank is far more valuable because once you get a degree of trust from google, you can do far more things in regards to building links.

By: Tom Lindstrom

Tom Lindstrom — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:23:25 +0000

Google page rank is important but some people make it into first priority to only comment on blogs with high PR.I know of sites with PR zero that are ranking very well in the search engines and get loads of targeted traffic.My point is, Google looks at lots of things besides PR when deciding search engine ranking.

By: Darrell Freeman

Darrell Freeman — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:36:07 +0000

Dan – can I have your ThinkVisibility ticket if you can no longer attend? I was on holiday when the event was announced thus missing out.