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Re: Buying/selling links that pass PageRank

seo101

Becky

> We get weird spikes when another site points at us, we get totally non-
> contextual links from well over a 1,000 blogs, fora and such - are we
> suspected of planting or buying links?  It has been said more than
> once on this Group that incoming links can't harm you - now I wonder
> if they can?

The only penalty that Google is dishing out is to the sites that sell
links and do not signal to Google that its a sold link. If sites that
purchase links get penalized, I would be buying links for my
competitors sites.