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83% of SEO's don't yet report paid links

The results are in from our poll asking whether you report paid links or not.

After Google’s propaganda and the publicity behind the issue I was expecting more people to have reported paid links. The full results are below:

  • No – 72%
  • Yes – 17%
  • Not yet but I probably will – 11%

Paid links poll

BY Patrick Altoft AT 11:48pm ON Thursday, 17 January 2008

Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3 and has worked in the SEO industry for over 10 years. With experience across some of the worlds largest brands as well as startup businesses Patrick is well known in the industry and speaks regularly at the major SEO conferences and events. Follow Patrick on Twitter or Google+

Comments

  • http://www.marketinghub.info/ Marketing Hub

    I’ll leave the detection to the algorithm.

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  • Mcfly

    All the publicity & propaganda has only highlighted one thing…. its them against us! Like Marketing hub said… let the algorithm detect it!

  • julien

    i’m with Marketing Hub. it’s not my business.

  • Blake

    Agreed! Google makes enough money to hire and program the necessary tools to detect these links themselves. Don’t do their job for them.

  • http://www.VerticalMeasures.com Arnie

    Wasn’t a NARC in the 80′s, not going to be one now.

  • http://sirjorge.com/blogx sir jorge

    my goodness, i love pie graphs

  • http://http//froggblog.leapfrogg.co.uk Simon Dance

    I think the question, that still remains somewhat ambiguous, is… what constitutes a paid link?

    Si

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  • http://www.bestgoji.co.uk Lori

    I agree with Simon – the definition of “paid” is still confusing to me.

  • http://www.internettmarketing.no Perry_T

    Dare i say that almost all websites have paid for some listings in one form or another…

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  • http://www.easytourchina.com China Tours

    Google should make it to find the paid links throught their own technology to solve the problem. otherwise, it may cause more problems. What if someone intensionally trapped his competitors by reporting the paid links, which are created by himself, not his competitors.

  • http://www.truecashmakers.com/ Cash Makers

    Only if site is competing with me :)

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