Selling Text Links and Google Penalization - the future?
Websites which are selling paid links in footers and sidebars have largely come under Google’s ‘attack’, especially if those links are not relevant to the content of the site, and this is a major threat to the entire text link selling industry… I have been selling links on a few of my sites, and have been into these kind of PR drop issues; but surprisingly one of my site’s PR went up 
I quickly contacted my link selling agent to request for a hike in the payout per link for this PR increase, and got this interesting reply…
We will not be adjusting the PR of sites in our inventory at this time for 2 reasons.
1. PageRank is becoming less valuable and will only be a small part of our new rating system due to be ready within the next few weeks. Only large PR fluctuations like PR3 to PR7 will affect the pricing of links.
2. The current PR update is not considered complete. We are still seeing fluctuations.
And it seems that text link selling companies are moving towards some new kind of metrics, that doesn’t rely upon pagerank as a major factor in buying and selling links. This should be a major blow to Google’s Pagerank, as PR is nowadays only relevant while buying and selling links.
Web Support Agents Said,
June 3, 2008 @ 10:14 pm
I would agree for Google’s future decision to penalized those site who as irrelevant links. We should always prefer to relevant sites that links to our website.
Hostmonster Said,
June 23, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
This is just getting ridiculous. How is it any different than adsense? those are paid links.
Google just wants a Monopoly of the online paid link advertising
seobag Said,
October 13, 2008 @ 8:21 am
I think, that if you buying and selling links you really can lost money
but without buying links take #1 Google very difficult
Free Squeeze Pages Said,
January 20, 2010 @ 11:05 pm
I have sold links on a few of my blogs and haven’t seen any negative effects. But then again, it wasn’t on a large scale.