Google reduces page rank of sites that sells links

Are you selling links on your site. If yes than alert, otherwise not to worry. Because selling paid links can hurt your PageRank or rankings on Google based on a feedback he got from Google.


Google reduced page rank of many site. In recent post at dailyblogtips.com and andybeard.eu described the latest change the reducing value of PR of many big sites and blogs like:

Problogger (from 6 to 4)
Copyblogger (from 6 to 4)
Search Engine Journal (from 7 to 4)
Quick Online Tips (from 6 to 3)
Search Engine Roundtable (from 7 to 4)
Washingtonpost.com - from 7 to 5
Statcounter.com - from 10 to 8 (and 6 in some other Google data centers)

It is seem that Google has chosen to penalize websites selling links and text link ads. A deep description SellingText Links Ads And Google Penalization is available at masternewmedia.org

If you are not much aware from the Page Rank for its algorithm, you can get more info on Page Rank by Matt Cutts.