Google PR (PageRank) Defined

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zach Wrote:In the past, Google has blocked sites which try to artficially increase their search engine rankings. If you hired a dodgy SEO firm, you need to write to Google in order to get your site relisted, and even that can take months. I am not sure what their policy is towards paid links specificall, but their general policy is definatly against 'abuse' of their ranking system. So PRESUMABLY they would be against people paying for links in order to increase their Page Rank..

I can see your point here, but what I meant was paid links on a site that wasn't a directory services. If a site only lists 10-12 links on their page, which they sell to other users, I don't see how this could effect Google to say that they won't validate this link.