Selling links not wrong when you are Matt Cutt's Friend.

Barry of Seroundtable.com has been selling links on his site for a long time. If you go to www.seroundtable.com you can see a bunch of text links without Nofollow. Even he has the TPR penalty where his Toolbar Pagerank is reduced from 6 to 4 which is an indication that her has lost trust with Google. But it seems Matt Cutts doesn't care about all these stuff since Barry is his friend.



Barry is a long term friend to Matt Cutts and now in recent Matt's Post https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-webmaster-chat-tons-of-fun/ he gave a bunch of links to Barry for posting the 2nd webmaster live chat transcript. He does this because Barry is his friend and if anyone else posts the same script he just ignores them.

When the first Google webmaster live chat happened we were the first to post the script here . Even Matt Cutts knew we posted but he just ignored them as if it never existed. I can understand now how important its to attend Search Conferences and make Matt your friend.

You can have 2 advantages.



1. Sell as much text links as you want and still Matt cutts will ignore you and will be happy to be your friend.
2. Will give bunch of links from his blog since he likes you.

Lets follow the new rule of Text link advertising be friend with Google and you will be ignored even if you sell 1000 links.

Vijay,

Labels: Mattcutts, Search Engine Optimization