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Seems to me like Google is trying to own everything as Matt Cutts, the head of web spam team of Google, just announced on his blog that users can report “paidlinks” using Google webmaster’s console.

That’s pretty crappy, he didn’t specified what “paidlinks” means for Google. I mean dir.yahoo.com is selling links, business.com is selling links, right ? What about Text Link Ads, ReviewMe or PayPerPost, they all are selling links in one form or an other.

Buying and selling links is a form of advertising like AdSense or AdWords and I sure think that is by far the most stupid idea from Google, therefore after a lot of comments on Matt’s post he did specified:

There’s absolutely no problem with selling links for traffic (as opposed to PageRank).

But how Google will be able to make that difference ?

Matt’s post rises many many question signs, for instance a company can buy a link for one of his competitors and than report it or what about all the open-source projects or paid WordPress themes, they all have back links to developers or designers and those links are paid and many others undecided situations that involves links.

In my opinion the Google idea of reporting paid links is somehow good but is not introduced correctly and Matt’s post is way to small and there are few specified details for such “a big feature” from Google, but who am I compared to Matt Cutts ?

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