Question about selling links

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misterblackhat

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• Feb 21, 2014

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So lets say a writer for a high authority news site is selling followed links. Can they get in any sort of legal trouble for doing this? I've heard of people doing this and have received emails advertising this sort of thing before and I'm just curious of what the risks are for the seller besides the obvious getting fired/reputation ruined, etc.

 

assphuck

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• Feb 21, 2014

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It's not against the law to link to other websites. Where the writer may get into trouble is any type of contractual agreement he has with the website he writes for. He could lose his job, but that's about the worst that can happen unless the news site sues him for lost link revenue. That would be a first though.

 

tony_d

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No legal trouble, whatsoever (assuming the lawful owner of the site has no problem with the activity).

 

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albimorkal

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• Feb 21, 2014

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Umm unless his contract or something explicitly says that he cannot do this then no, there shouldn't be any problems. He has that power and his likely a "freelancer" so no contract.

 

PaperToy

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You can sell whatever you want on your website. The chance of "ruining" your reputation is if you are linking to random and irrelevant low quality websites that host penalty material.

 

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misterblackhat

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• Feb 21, 2014
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Keep in mind the writers selling the links don't own the website. My question was can you get in legal trouble for selling links on someone else's website. But the answer appears to be no.