Comments on: The Seller's Motivation https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-sellers-motivation.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Canada's Search and Social Media Authority Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:16:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kris Keimig https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-sellers-motivation.html/comment-page-1#comment-28471 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:43:18 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2007/10/28/the-sellers-motivation/#comment-28471 Gaming the system is (whether done consciously or not) inherent in the selling of links. The only reason that sites are able to sell links is because of the perceived PR value that a link can pass.

Otherwise, why would I ever pay for a link? One might argue for traffic acquisition – but I don’t think anyone buys links for an influx of traffic.

… and to SZA’s point; by virtue of the Link Seller receiving punishment (lower PR), the buyer will receive punishment (less juice passed).

]]> By: Simonne https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-sellers-motivation.html/comment-page-1#comment-28470 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:23:45 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2007/10/28/the-sellers-motivation/#comment-28470 This is crazy. I sell links on all my sites (not that I have too many buyers, but I do sell them 😉 ). I’m doing it for the money and I always thought that everybody knew and agreed they also pass PR. I did not see that as an attempt to game the system, and I still cannot see it that way. Then it means that Google itself is gaming its own system by placing those sponsored results on the SERPS. I asked some of my friends who have no idea of internet marketing and they didn’t know that somebody is paying to have those links displayed there. If they don’t know, doesn’t it mean that they are induced in error? By whom? Not by me, that’s for sure.

]]> By: sza https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-sellers-motivation.html/comment-page-1#comment-28469 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:16:46 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2007/10/28/the-sellers-motivation/#comment-28469 This reasoning would be correct as long as only link-sellers were punished. But I don’t think that’s the case.

]]> By: Lea de Groot https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/the-sellers-motivation.html/comment-page-1#comment-28468 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:15:16 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2007/10/28/the-sellers-motivation/#comment-28468 I agree, but I think Google’s take would be ‘we gave you a google-approved system (Adsense) that doesn’t abuse our proprietary PageRank, and yet you persist in selling elsewhere!’
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