Can Google ranking be bought?

This came up from a conversation with a friend.





He was very certain that any one website owner can pay to have their website rank higher in Google. I am not talking about Google AdWords on the right hand side, or the highlighted sponsored links on the top of the page.





I need clarification on this. As I always thought that Google ranking is based on many other factors, such as site content, quality of links, length of stay for each click, etc. but not for how much the website owner has paid Google.

Can Google ranking be bought?
No, as answered by my other friends. By buying links i.e. paid links and paid listing i.e. paying for listing in directories and search engines or by paying google, Google ranking cannot be bought. There are websites that lose their PR and web pages are remove from google cache due to various reasons like if the web page was not updated for very long time or due to some black hat techniques.


I mean to say, that if a web page drops out from the google cache then to regain cache,so that web pages gets indexed by google, website owners pay to google for paid listing and regains indexing. These listing are not organic listing and they appear above organic listing as paid listing.





Again, to say till now I have not come across buying Google ranking, and if this was the case many could have invested to gain top ranking and remain in the top 10 listing. Google is the most preferred and trusted for its search result and web strongest power to take IT business to heights and attain globalization.
Reply:Google does not sell search results positioning. Some would sale you can get on the first page by paying for optimization and links. Sometimes that's true, but it can be costly and it's never a sure thing.... and even if it works you may only hold that position for a few days or weeks.
Reply:Money talks. You can buy just about anything with enough money.
Reply:Organic Goodle ranking (left side) can absolutely NOT be bought. It's a complicated formula that basically boils down to how good your site is, and how many links you have from other good sites. It's more complicated than that, but it appears to be a very honest system.





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Reply:well that's how most seo companies operate. their services is mostly using money to effect the search engine. you should know that backlinks has major contribution to the ranking. the higher the rank where the backlinks comes from the higher the site PR will be. but you need to remember ranking are determine by many factors such as onpage optimization, offpage and the related keyword phrase. but buying link will affect negatively to your site ranking if get caught by google. so if you can run away from google police spider then go ahead but don't blame google if you lose the ranking and your money too. you can buy link but only for the purpose of advertising traffic not search engine traffic.
Reply:I think the best way to gain position in the google results in getting your site linked on other top ranking sites on google. But no the actual results cannot be bought.