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Hat tip to John Scott who’s now offering contextual links for sale over at v7n.  Also note the landing page is almost entirely composed of images which I would guess is an intentional little experiment to show the value of link weight over on page optimisation.

More info on John’s blog here.

Best of luck with the new venture John!

ADDED :-

Dear God what an uproar!  Nice link bait John - shame Matt was a bit tight linking out.  Kudos where it’s due though - he managed to dive onto an “OMG spam is bad” anecdote pretty fast and managed to get a flock of newbies agreeing that this could get them banned from Google!  Lol!

The comments on the Problogger post range from relatively well thought out to downright stupid.  In fairness to Darren, that isn’t a negative towards Problogger which always churns out great content, but some of them are just ridiculous:

Ken Cheung says (referring to Matt’s post):

“This morning I read a post on Matt Cutts blog about V7N and “undetectable” links/spam. You’ll get banned when you get caught”

Uh no, Ken it doesn’t say that.  Matt simply (actually, cleverly) cited an example where he caught someone spamming.  The guy was using doorway pages on his client’s sites and got caught.  All Matt was saying about V7N Contextual was that some things are more “detectable” than most people would think.

That of course assumes that people…think.

Another commentor, Ken, says:

“Yes, it is clearly BlackHat.”

Uh no.  Doorway pages are black hat.  Autogenerated content is black hat.  Buying links?  Grey hay maybe - but a light shade of grey at best.  Maybe if Google was a little better at clamping down on spam then regular businesses wouldn’t have to push the limit of what is considered “white hat”?  Hmmm?

My favourite so far is Nick who says:

“But, most importantly, your readers… you develop a good relationship with your readers, and in turn you lie right in front of their face…

RED FLAG!!! THIS IS NOT A GOOD COMPANY!!!”

I read this and I picture Nick shaking his fist at the monitor in sheer outrage.  WTG Nick!  It’s great to see someone take such a staunch moral stance against the evils we all face in daily life.  Er, like link buying.

In fairness thought there are a few geniune and well thought out concerns about link buying in general, which should serve as good feedback for everyone involved.  Isn’t it interesting though, how the “ethical” debate has moved on from SEO and settled nicely on the lap of the blogging community?

The TW thread was slightly more diplomatic (as tends to be the trend in the SEO community these days), but again no link love?  And I thought they had a “link out generously” policy?  Oh well.

MG