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I have analysed the W3C .org domain to evaluate whether their activities would fall under the category “LINK SALE”.

W3C has a membership program, following description

As a W3C Member, the most important measure of value in joining the Consortium can be found in the adoption of W3C specifications worldwide, and the growing dependence of global commerce and information exchange upon these specifications. W3C Members help pioneer this growth process. Levels of involvement can range from simply associating your organization with W3C endeavors, receiving early access of Member-confidential information, assisting with driving work efforts, generating new ideas, and/or developing future Web technologies.

It has not been mentioned that the membership includes a direct link to a members website that can actually boost a page to position 1# at Google for highly competitive keywords. I am under the impression this is in fact hidden link sale as companies that have sufficient funds can buy a membership and the high quality back link that is included.

The membership fee for Germany for example will be as follows, I presume the 6500 Euro price is applicable to majority of my blog readers :

Organization Type in Germany (country category HIC) Annual Fee

For-profit organization that has annual gross revenue,
as measured by the most recent audited statement,
of greater than or equal to 51,000,000.

Free is EUR. 65,000 EUR

All other organizations, including not-profit
organizations and government agencies.

The fee is 6,500 EUR

In this case it seems as if I can buy a link at a price of 6500 Euro / 12 = 542 Euro monthly.

Sounds like a reasonable price for a PR7 Link with a link power of way over 2000 This will surely get your page to the top and in result you sill have sufficient sales to fund such a link on a permanent basis.

This is where Google should be looking !!!

How do the pages ranked 1# at Google really do it ? They don’t do it by exchanging links, they don’t do it with directory submissions, and they surely don’t do it with blog posts or article submissions and surely not onsite-seo as majority might presume. Now you might ask, well then how do they do it ?

They buy links from old established authority websites. These websites have such strong link power, a single link from such websites will get you a top position in Google even for competitive keywords. It is not the quantity of links that counts, not the theme of the links it is the shear power such a link has.

To give you an idea of what I am talking about lets use following example :

The website is wine. com

This website has top rank for relevant search terms. Their own link power is medium but in any case stronger than their competitors. They use a second domain to double their own link power which I think is questionable in itself. In addition they have a link from www .w3. org which is The World Wide Web Consortium. I must wonder how such a web authority like W3C can actually support a website to become so strong unless they get money, or maybe 100 Gallons of free wine ?

I personally believe this is a situation which Google should not accept or let us rather use the word REWARD ! Google likes to pick on the weak and the strong can do as they please. Google punishes small blogs by reducing their PR due to the missing “no follow” attribute ? But they REWARD an authority website for linking to a wine website where W3C explains how important web standard are and use wine.com as a “Good example” of such a website, Bla Bla Bla. I feel this is where the “no follow” attribute is fair as this link gives wine.com an advantage over their competitors that is impossible to beat. I call this a Mafia method and even authority websites are making use of it !!!

Google sees a link as a vote from site A to site B. Authority websites should not vote especially not if the theme of the website is not 100% identical to their own.

Google results are no different than an Adwords campaign, who ever has the money will rank top the only difference Google does not earn on these but let’s their partners earn a few bucks. Come on Google fair play !!!

Let me know your comments, I would love to hear them.

Inbound Links (Backlinks)

Having links from other websites to yours is a critical part of search engine optimisation. As well as the obvious bonus of having people follow these links to your site, inbound links provide the following benefits:

* Search engine robots follow links between websites. The more inbound links you have, the more often robots will visit your site.
* Many search engines count links to your site as “votes” for you. They assume that if lots of websites link to your site it must be high quality. Page Rank is Google’s system of counting links.

The general rule is that the more inbound links you can get, the better. Getting more links should almost certainly be near the top of your priority list when optimising your site.

Important: Before you start trying to acquire inbound links, read this page and take heed of the warnings!

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