Comments on: Google Doesn’t Hate ALL Paid Links, Just Yours http://www.ginside.com/2008/1803/paid-links/ Unofficial Google News. Products, Services, Hacks, Tweaks, and more -- everything Google. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:40:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Joseph Hunkinshttp://www.ginside.com/2008/1803/paid-links/#comment-2154 Joseph Hunkins Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:14:40 +0000 http://www.ginside.com/?p=1803#comment-2154 Jonathan what I have noted when big sites use paid links is that Google may keep ranking the site well but won't allow the paid links to pass any rank along. ie the algo slaps a "nofollow" on all the site links. Although I don't think they are consistent enough with this it's basically the right idea.Google's inconsistency creates a lot frustration that I believe they could reduce with a more transparent statements about *how they handle links* rather than *how they want me to handle links*. Jonathan what I have noted when big sites use paid links is that Google may
keep ranking the site well but won’t allow the paid links to pass any rank along. ie the algo slaps a “nofollow” on all the site links. Although I don’t think they are consistent enough with this it’s basically the right idea.

Google’s inconsistency creates a lot frustration that I believe they could reduce with a more transparent statements about *how they handle links* rather than *how they want me to handle links*.

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