{"id":7703,"date":"2023-01-13T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T13:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/does-google-conduct-link-buying-sting-operations-they-dont-need-to\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T13:53:44","slug":"does-google-conduct-link-buying-sting-operations-they-dont-need-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/does-google-conduct-link-buying-sting-operations-they-dont-need-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Google Conduct Link Buying Sting Operations? They Don&#8217;t Need To."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Reddit thread asks if Google engages in link-buying sting operations where they will pretend to want to buy a link and then use that to penalize the network.  John Mueller of Google responded by saying &#8220;I get sent offers all the time, to an official Google email address.&#8221;  That means, Google does not need to proactively do that, they come to Google without any official or necessary operation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reddit thread asks if Google engages in link-buying sting operations where they will pretend to want to buy a link and then use that to penalize the network. John Mueller of Google responded by saying &#8220;I get sent offers all the time, to an official Google email address.&#8221; That means, Google does not need to proactively do that, they come to Google without any official or necessary operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}