link selling service<\/a> before.)<\/p>\nI know that Google will penalize websites that sell links. That’s why I only sell text links on websites with high PR but low traffic, in order to squeeze some extra money out of these websites.<\/p>\n
But over the years, the traffic to this website have grown and it’s fetching $100-$200 Adsense income every month. With such income, I should have stopped selling links, but I didn’t (blame on my laziness to monitor).<\/p>\n
Ok, serve me right!<\/p>\n
But here’s something interesting that I discover……<\/p>\n
Although the PR has been penalized, the traffic from Google is still steady. And I’ve been monitoring for more than a month.<\/p>\n
So Google is not that mean afterall.<\/p>\n
While it penalized the website by dropping its PR to 0, it didn’t blacklist the website from its search result.<\/p>\n
It’s fair if you ask me. The website does serve unique and quality contents for the benefit of the surfers. So it deserves the search engine ranking. It also deserves to have its PR dropped, since it violated their T&C.<\/p>\n
Well, one month may not be long enough to see the full impact of having the PR penalized. I’ll continue to monitor the performance of this website and continue to promote it. Let’s see if the PR can be revived and the traffic can sustain.<\/p>\n
I’ll keep you updated on anything interesting. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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