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Paid link

What is paid link?

A paid link is any link where money changed hands for the placement itself. Google's guidelines require these links to be marked sponsored or nofollow.

Why it matters

Paying a writer to produce a great article is not a paid link. Paying purely to insert a URL into an existing page is.

The risk is concentrated on sites that sell links at scale — their entire outbound profile eventually gets discounted.

Related terms

  • Sponsored link

    A sponsored link is a backlink acquired in exchange for money, products, or another form of compensation. It should carr

  • Link insertion

    A link insertion, also called a niche edit, is a backlink added to an article that already exists and is already indexed

  • PBN (Private Blog Network)

    A PBN is a group of websites, usually built on expired domains, created solely to link to a target site and manipulate r

Cite this definition

Guest Post Website. “Paid link.” Guest Posting & SEO Glossary. https://guestpostwebsite.com/glossary/paid-link