How to Report Paid Links to Google

Now why would you want to do that in the first place? If you are running a search engine optimization campaign but would rather do it in an organic way, meaning you don’t buy links or any of those easier ways to game search engines, you might outperform competitors without having to pay anyone - report those paid links!

Google’s policy in ranking websites or its Pagerank calculations is not for this method of advertising. Google does not prioritize paid links.

And for your convenience, Google has just further facilitated the method of doing this job. Google provided a paid links reporting form which can be found within the Webmaster Tools. Just log in and report sites that are buying and selling links.

But if you are selling links for advertising purposes, there are many ways you can designate this, including:

- Adding a rel=”nofollow” attribute to the href tag
- Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file

But seriously, do many people use such measures in for the benefit of the reliability of the search engine results?

Tags: paid links, SEO