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Google bans the usage adwords to sell links/google juice

In an effort to further curb the sales of links and pagerank for SEO, google has banned all adwords ads that are used to sell text link advertisements targeted towards selling a shortcut to better google rankings.

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this change in implementation is in accordance with Google’s existing AdWords and Webmaster guidelines. The AdWords guidelines stated “Advertising is not permitted for the promotion of … search engine spamming,” pointing to the webmaster guidelines for further definitions of unacceptable techniques… and the webmaster help pages state “Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google’s webmaster guidelines.”

[Via Google Blogoscoped]

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