Many people are looking for ways to increase traffic to their website. One way is to buy text link ads or sponsored reviews. With the interest in reality games here is a great example of why allowing people to buy paid links is bad. With Big Brother, the game has certain rules and when people break these rules, commonly its an attempt to cheat. People commonly cheat because they know if they play the game according to the rules they will lose. Blogging and publishing content on the Internet isn’t much different than a common game, or in this instance a reality game.

When you have thousands of authors and publishers who are playing by the rules, there is a group of people who cheat and buy paid links. How does it make you feel knowing that all your hard work with blogging and publishing can get thwarted by someone who has money and wants to cheat by paying his way to the top of the search engines. The end result is the publisher that pays their way to the top causes your naturally ranked content to get bumped down. - Read The Full Story.

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