Comments on: LinkXL Lies To Its Advertisers

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:30:44 +0000

Google will not only never recommend them, but from the look of things they are already penalizing them. They don’t appear for the own name anywhere on the first page!

By: Roelof

Roelof — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:29:58 +0000

The main problem of selling and buying links is that they are not relevant. If the link brokers would be looking at that better then looking at how many money they could earn, it would change a lot!

By: Jazz

Jazz — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:50:02 +0000

I think you are getting carried away on what the linkxl marketing pages says, rather than what their system does. I have noticed all link broker sites try to be very careful in how they word what they sell. It’s just the nature of the beast.

Even though, I am always happy to sell high dollar footer links to advertisers with lots of $$, I have been pushing buyers to buy text links in content for years. Not only is it cheaper, it work great for SEO and is much safer than buying links in the footer or sidebar of a web site.

The only problem it is a major pain to find and buy links in relevant indexed content. Because it’s easy, advertisers and publishers continue to buy and sell footer links that may or may not get them in trouble.

For Google’s algorithm, a relevant link in content serves them much better then a an irrelevant “Credit Cards” type link on the side bar of a totally unrelated site. But, you’re right, Google will ever recommend linkxl - especially since they sell links that they can’t algorithmically track.

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:16:42 +0000

True they do allow advertisers to buy links with nofollow, but that is only to placate bloggers. Their business model is based around selling links from all pages of a blog, most of which would send 0 traffic, rendering a link worthless if it has nofollow on.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:33:21 +0000

It’s a bit of a grey area, but looking at the review, it does allow Google liked links:

“Note that the paid links served by LinkXL — which can be set as either nofollow or dofollow — are only placed within the content itself. They do not sell links in the sidebar or the footer.”

So it DOES allow nofollow, but you’re quite correct, it is deceptive, as nofollow doesn’t build SEO.