The company behind Text-Link-Ads.com service has launched a new program InLinks.com that too a marketplace for buying and selling Google PageRank text links but could be slightly tough to detect.
Here the advertisers can pick blog posts where they want to place text links and once the blogger approves that link, particular words in the blog post automatically get linked to the advertiser’s site without the rel=nofollow attribute thus passing link juice.
Tony Hung says the starting rate for such links are about $10/month. The linking is automatic and done via plug-ins (available for WordPress, Movable Type & Drupal) and unlike the regular text link ads, here blogger don’t give a site-wide link but only from a specific post.
Text Links are dangerous for sure particular if your site traffic is dependent on Google. My advice would be to stay away because, sooner or later, search engines will figure this out especially when you are embedding links to commercial sites in your old web pages – that’s because a copy of you pages are already in Google’s index so a simple diff will reveal them all those new paid links.
Tony too has some advice in this case – "If you don’t care about how Google thinks of your site..then its probably worth a go."
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/inlinks-new-text-links-ads-tough-to-detect/5476/
Tags: Archives, google, link building, seo, text links, Internet
Reader Comments
So u mean to say its not a good option to go in for text link ads.
What actually happens when google indexes them again, is that page rank goes down, if it does is it for a some time or forever.
Written by uday on 11.19.08
Hi Amit — just to emphasize your point … Google is smart. Real smart. Just because its harder to find a list of advertisers doesn’t meant that there aren’t other ways of finding out blogs who are selling links.
Keep up the great work! :)
cheers
t @ dji
Written by Tony hung on 11.19.08
Personally, I don’t think InLinks can hide forever. Sooner or later, Google will find a way to detect paid/sold links placed by those who registered for InLinks. They’re pretty smart, that’s why Google is the number one Dot Com company in the World Wide Web!
Written by Home Biss on 11.19.08
I agree with what Tony has said “If you don’t care about Google, you can go ahead using InLinks”.
Till date there is no as such confirmation from Google, that they monetize blog/website & degrade website just coz they are using InLinks.
My suggestion’s would be if your website is not doing good in Google(see analytic stat’s) or in other way, if you damn care about Google, use InLinks…but be aware sooner or later Google will find a way to beat Inlinks Advertising Concept. After all Google’s major revenue comes from Sponsered Ad’s, do you think Google will sit silently :-)
Thanks Amit for throwing ball over “InLinks”.
Written by Afzal on 11.20.08
I’ve done a few snitches to Google when I see companies abusing the system. nyctourist and 10best come to mind but never seen anything result from it. I suspect google doesn’t look into individual cases since they don’t have the manpower.
Written by Joe C on 11.20.08
Amit,
I just wanted to mention that inlinks is a clone of link which we have been running and promoting the automated selling links in content for almost two years. I was shocked and honored at the same time that a large venture capital company ripped my idea.
Here is our 2+ year old profile at cruchbase link
-John
Written by John Lessnau on 11.20.08
If i understand this correctly, $10 won’t get you a link in a post. It will get you a link for ONE MONTH in a post. So if you want to keep your seo standing, you have to keep paying that $10 each month after that.
Which is absolutely ridiculous. Any smart person with decent enough SEO knowledge can pull seo ranks without paying through the nose for them.
Written by eric on 11.21.08
Google needs to register as an advertiser and once they are in, they’ll have a opportunity to view the list of bloggers participating in this program.
It is only hard the readers to detect, not Google.
Written by Calvin on 11.21.08
Google will figure this one out quick-quick, and then your pagerank will be torpedoed. Caution! Just don’t try this on your own website!
Written by Jacques Seoman on 11.23.08