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[Zishan Ahmed]

I am willing to sell some of my well ranked web pages to advertisers... will it going to be considered as a black hat seo or by doing that this will going to effect my page rank for my overall site.

Looking forward to hear from the experts on this?

[Betty]

What do you mean by selling the webpages?

Are you saying - just putting ads on them but you still own them? Done all the time - just look at all the sites with Adsense and similar.

Or are you, somehow, trying to sell certain pages of your site? Not sure how you'd go about that - but if they change the content, it's not going to rank like it is now. And if they don't change the content, what's the benefit to them?

[Zishan Ahmed]

I am willing to hand over the authority of the page to the advertiser where they can upload and display ads according to their own sweet will.

Now, by doing that.......... what effect my overall site will get if i started doing so?

[Betty]

I am willing to hand over the authority of the page to the advertiser where they can upload and display ads according to their own sweet will.

Now, by doing that.......... what effect my overall site will get if i started doing so?

Sorry - but I'm still now sure on what you mean by "hand over the authority of the page"... you mean keep the content and let someone run ads on it? I suppose it would depend on what kind of ads they were running. Adsense? Porn? Pharm?

[torka]

Selling advertising space on your site, whether it's a single banner or an entire page, is not black hat.

But if you're going to be allowing the advertisers to place a link or links on the page back to their own site's pages (which I assume you would allow them to do), those links need to be nofollowed. Those would be paid links, and if Google finds out you're selling links and not "nofollowing" them, that could indeed have a negative effect on your entire site.

--Torka

[interval]

those links need to be nofollowed.
--Torka

That means every time I use a link pointing to another site, I must set the 'nofollow' attribute to avoid any Goggle's suspicion?

[ABAR]

That means every time I use a link pointing to another site, I must set the 'nofollow' attribute to avoid any Goggle's suspicion?

I must use these "no follow tags " do you have an example of one so I can code it?

[torka]

That means every time I use a link pointing to another site, I must set the 'nofollow' attribute to avoid any Goggle's suspicion?

No, only paid links. You're free to link out to anybody you want, any time you want, any way you want. For links that are freely-offered "votes" for another site, you don't need (or, IMO, want) to use the nofollow attribute.

In at least some cases, it will be tough for Google to distinguish paid links from freely-given "votes" for another site, so there are almost certainly any number of sites out there that sell links that are allowed to pass PR without incurring a penalty (at least, not yet).

But from what it sounds like the O.P. is talking about, it's going to be pretty obvious these are paid links. To be safe, those should be nofollowed or sent through a jump/tracking script to avoid passing PR if you want to follow Google guidelines.

I must use these "no follow tags notworthy.gif " do you have an example of one so I can code it?

There's no such thing as a "nofollow tag." It's an attribute of the link. Just add the following to each of your <a href> tags:

CODE

rel="nofollow"

That's all there is to it.

--Torka