Paid reviews

[Gregory]

I heard that Google doesn't like paid reviews and links to the advertisers' websites within the reviews because they hurt the search engine's search results. That makes sense. I am just curious if there is a way of selling reviews on your website without hurting your website ranking.

[Vikram]

My guess is that you would have to be really sneaky in how you go about selling reviews to your website so as to not get caught and cause your ranking to go down. I'm sure lots of people have done it. Maybe you could meet people in person, ask them to go and review it and then pay them under the table for it.

[Caleb55]

I don't think it would be wise to have paid reviews because it isn't honest and it really does make your website rank lower especially if being caught. I wouldn't trust a website that had paid reviews.

[Allegro]

What about disclosing on your website that the particular posts are sponsored posts/reviews? I think a web owner has the right to publish such posts. Do you think Google would accept this?

[CristR]

I think it is good to disclose that on your website. It is fair for your readers and search engines as well. I wonder if the advertisers would be happy with that though, because the main reason they buy reviews is to get quality backlinks.

[newebster]

I would rather not publish paid reviews and links on my website. It takes a lot of time to build a website and get its page ranking improved. The income you would get from publishing paid reviews is not worth the risk.