Google's Adam Lasnik Knocks on Paid Links

Sep 15, 2006 - 8:38 am 11 by

It has been a while since a Googler knocked on buying links in a while. But recently, mini-Matt, Adam Lasnik, of Google, wrote in a WebmasterWorld thread saying;

Advertising's fine
Buying links for PR: bad
Google senses much ;)

So buy links for advertising and not for building your PR. Got that?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

 

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