Google Webmaster Guidelines, Text Link Ads and Lynx
The Google Webmaster Guidelines document clearly suggests that buying or selling paid links that pass PageRank can negatively impact a site’s ranking in Google search results.
As a result, paid links have gone extinct from most websites now but there’s some interesting irony here.
The Webmaster Guidelines document recommends using a text web browser called Lynx to help people visualize how Google spiders will see their websites.
What may surprise you here is that this official Lynx website, which is actually linked from the Google Guidelines document, is selling text link ads for stuff like "online dating" and "data recovery" without using the rel=nofollow attribute.
This site is currently #1 in Google for the word "Lynx" but probably the rankings will change courtesy these text link ads.
The more surprising part is that these links have existed on the Lynx website since July 2007 so they were probably present at the time when the page was linked from the Google Document.
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why you jealous ? whats your problem ? , if you don’t wanna sell links then why go around complaining ? Sorry Sir but you are a cheap tell-tale. No offense but all will be OK if you mind your business .
Amit,
I am not sure why do you even allow such comment.
Anon,
It is Okay if you don’t agree with writer. There is no need to launch personal attack.
Amit,
This is just to inform you that http://lynx.browser.org/ is not passing any pagerank or violating any rules of google since it links to the so called text link ads using scripts.These links will not be followed by google.Just check for a reciprocal link to those sites from lynx site using http://www.iwebtool.com/reciprocal_link_checker
and please do edit this post..
@Renjith,
I have checked the same and found that there is a link from Lynx to those different sites.
I think you misplaced the urls in the boxes(the linked to website should be placed in the first box and the lynx.browser.org in the next box)
Hope you see it!!.
Hey…you made them reduce the pagerank of lynx site….now they dont even rank first in the keyword lynx and pr dropped to 5.Now they removed paid links.
You have done a **** job