New Scientist selling links on its website
Ajay Kumar Singh on March 7th, 2010While searching for some space related story I stumbled upon news scientist website and to my surprise I found approvedindex.co.uk link in the right sidebar at the bottom.
So even a reputed magazine like New Scientist has succumbed to the link selling tactics or may be it is recession to blame.
What a shame on New Scientist that it sells a link to a crap website like approvedindex and the link content looks so miserable and out of context.
And not to mention the dumb people from both sides have agreed to keep the link on all pages ;)
LOL
Thousands of irrelevant links overnight.
And since New Scientist is a reputable magazine it will not be punished by Google for selling links. So guys what are you waiting for go and grab some nice links off New Scientist before the new spread like wildfire.
What a shame on NS.
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Paul Lester Reply:
September 1st, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Haven’t you noticed, they are the same company?
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Ajay Kumar Singh Reply:
September 12th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Yes I know they all belong to Reed Business Information Ltd., everyone knows that.
That is not the point whether they belong to same group or not.
The point here is linking an irrelevant website. New Scientist and Web Development have nothing in common.
Any one looking at that link would immediately come to conclusion that it is paid link before they realize that both belong to same company.
I wouldn’t expect such a reputed Science Magazine website to do such blunder.
They could have gone for the Banner advert even though that would look odd.
It is crystal clear that they want to gain high ranking via linking (deliberately and from irrelevant website) from High PR and gain higher ranking in search results. This goes against Google’s Policy.
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I’m interested in buying poker link, how to contact them?
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Why do you think that approved index has purchased the link?
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Ajay Kumar Singh Reply:
March 7th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Don’t be so naive. New Scientist is a reputed magazine and it will not give you link free of cost in any way.
The only way to get that irrelevant link is via link buying.
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David Reply:
March 7th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Why Google doesn’t penalize NS?
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Ajay Kumar Singh Reply:
March 7th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Google turns blind eyes on big guys. Google’s T&C is biased towards well known website and even if they sell links it would be ignored.
What a dumb way to build links.
Thousands of links from irrelevant site will not do any good, it looks so much spam.
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Partha Goswami Reply:
December 12th, 2011 at 5:13 am
Hi Cavin, I agree with you. Google will be suspicious. The SERP & PR of the website will be in trouble.
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How much it would cost to get a link similar to Approved Index’s link on New Scientist website?
Do they offer it only on home page rather than on all pages?
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Hello Sir,
We are India based SEO Link Building company and we are interested in buying quality links from high PR website.
Kindly let me know how to buy link on New Scientist website?
Tx
Hemant
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Now I come to think of it, I woudn’t mind having a link on the mainpage of the MIT or NASA website. I’m willing to pay top dollar.
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Ajay Kumar Singh Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
If you have contacts in MIT or NASA and you manage to get a link as kind of free goodies then it is wonderful.
If you are planning to pay for it then forget about it.
Links are everything for Google Search Algorithm and if people start to buy links then there would be chaos.
Rich businesses would dominate the Internet while not so rich would be cornered.
If you have money you can buy millions of links and thus get top ranking on Google which will then defeat the fundamental philosophy of Google’s search algorithm which is based on the free and organic result (Ahem!!!).
Buying and Selling links are not welcomed on Google even though 90% (as per my research) of businesses wouldn’t mind to buy links.
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Ajay, what is the price for only one dofollow link from the home page or any other sub page, please give price for both. I hope this blog would send an email back for reply if not, could you kindly send an email to the above mentioned.
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