they asked publishers to make it sponsored so that we can snitch on each other because google are incapable of knowing which links are paid. And just like you, I don't know for sure if what I said is true, but until proven wrong I will believe that it is.
I don't think that they can detect paid backlinks. It is not easy.
From the eyes of an outsider, that still doesn't "prove" it's a purchased link. Unless G has eyes on the transaction details and sees payment being transferred, they can't know what's purchased and what isn't.is very easy how
you buy a link, the link stay alive 1 year, you don`t pay for another year, the owner remove your link. and after this, why owner remove the link?
because customer don`t pay one more year !
easy or not? with delay of course.
ML, basicly. Statistics. They simply buy some 100k links on their own and will look for patterns. That's no magic at all, paid links are mostly spread unorganic an will leave patterns. Like where it's positioned, how it's described, when it appears, etc...
I would love to see data on this, from a private source since we all know G would never publicly show this data, unless it's in their patents somewhere.
Yeah, would be interesting. I can't say it for sure, though - but this is easy doable, you can even identify a person by his written texts on a court acceptable error rate...
