Google Bans Ads For (Most) Paid Links Marketplaces
Blogoscoped
December 2, 2007
By Philipp Lenssen
Discussion about advertising, spam and Google.
Google continues to crack down on those text link advertising methods which don’t carry the “nofollow” attribute as a “machine-readable disclosure.” The latest move, triggered by communication between Google’s web spam team and the Google AdWords department, as Google’s Matt Cutts says, is to disallow the advertising for such PageRank-selling schemes via Google.
Compare the ads for the query pr8 – i.e. “PageRank 8” – from November 18th with today.
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