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Insidious New SEO Ad Product Will Be Hard For Google To Detect (Updated With Google Response)


New York-based advertising firm MediaWhiz, never one to worry about gray areas when it comes to advertising, has launched a new product today called InLinks.

It’s fairly straightforward - advertisers who want their sites associated with specific keywords simply buy ads. Links to those sites are then added to publishers sites whenever those words pop up in content. These aren’t ghost links like Kontera and others include in content - they’re full blown links without any notation (like a nofollow) that they are advertisements meant primarily for SEO juice.


Update: Google’s Matt Cutts emails:

Google has been very clear that selling such links that pass PageRank is a violation of our quality guidelines. Other search engines have said similar things.