{"id":1363,"date":"2009-06-25T08:09:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T13:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2009-06-25T08:09:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T13:09:29","slug":"you-can-buy-page-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/you-can-buy-page-rank\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Buy Page Rank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the CircuitCity.com name has been sold for $14M. I just read about it on the SEOBook website.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing, if I were to sell recommendations on my blog posts here and provide links to my sponsors products (and not use nofollow) Google wouldn&#8217;t like it very much and would probably penalize my site. In fact, that was the whole reason given for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?s=nofollow\">nofollow<\/a> link attribute in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that I would sell undisclosed advertising or recommendations here on this site, but I&#8217;m trying to understand why a giant company can buy and sell their page rank and I can&#8217;t. Seems like a double standard on Google&#8217;s part to me.<\/p>\n<p>On second thought,&#8230;<br \/>\nI probably would sell out for $14 Million.<br \/>\n(sorry, I went away for a second, but I&#8217;m back now)<\/p>\n<h3>More Details On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobook.com\/buy-cheap-pagerank\" target=\"_blank\">What Does $14 Million Worth of PageRank Look Like?<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the CircuitCity.com name has been sold for $14M. I just read about it on the SEOBook website. Here&#8217;s the thing, if I were to sell recommendations on my blog posts here and provide links to my sponsors products (and not use nofollow) Google wouldn&#8217;t like it very much and would probably penalize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[23,11],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}