Legal aspect of selling links

[caveman]

Has anyone thought of this before?

Say you are selling a package of high PR blog comments to a client. They check back in a few months and some of the blogs have gone, or the PR has been reduced.

I guess what I'm saying is you should have some kind of disclaimer to ensure they don't come back threatening to sue or bad mouth you!

Do you have a disclaimer?

[rain22]

I just know 2 things

- selling links on a dofollow site is violating google search engine terms and conditions
- it can decrease the site's PR too, if have lot of external links

[caveman]

Hey rain,

Just to clarify...I'm talking about blog commenting for links. Helping clients get good quality links by high PR blog commenting using their keywords.

[bluearrow]

You don't need to, unless you claim PR will last for 6 months or anytime of time period.

But Google penalize sites which sell doFollow links or buy doFollow links.

[caveman]

Ok but buy high pr backlinks - Google Search would suggest they don't get de-indexed - over 1m results!

[bluearrow]

But you would risk your site getting de-index because just coz one site bragging about it ?

[caveman]

Sorry I don't follow? I'm talking about making a site like the ones in the google search link of my previous post, that offers a link building service to customers.

[rain22]

Hey rain,

Just to clarify...I'm talking about blog commenting for links. Helping clients get good quality links by high PR blog commenting using their keywords.

because of your topic I thought u are asking about selling links on dofollow sites

[Nemanja]

Yes I think good disclaimer and refund policy for that kind of site/business is a MUST.

[JustGoWithIt]

Didn't made any disclaimer yet. Will include it soon. And yes its very Important thing that every seller must consider.

[bluearrow]

Sorry I don't follow? I'm talking about making a site like the ones in the google search link of my previous post, that offers a link building service to customers.

Okey thing you wouldn't have a problem. I think its better have a disclaimer then. Saying you can responsible about future changes. A good site should has its own, TOS, privacy policy and disclaimer.

[caveman]

What would you suggest for a refund policy then?

[Nemanja]

No refunds LOL
It is hard to make refund policy right now, you need to put all possible cases on the paper and then go from there

[bluearrow]

No refunds LOL

Yeah. What if you made all comments and links and the client ask for a refund.

[Nemanja]

Yeah. What if you made all comments and links and the client ask for a refund.

It was more as a joke, offcourse you need to have refund policy

[bluearrow]

It was more as a joke, offcourse you need to have refund policy

xD. It happened before.

Years ago something scary happened to a friend of mine. He had a site which sells doFollow PR backlinks. This guy copied a TOS from another site and didn't read it completely. TOS had a line about you can get a refund if you are not happy and after 3 months he had like dozen people asking for refunds.

[seoagents.org]

I totally agree with Terms of Service but I think it should only be about replacing links that were removed in the span of 3 months or so.

[caveman]

Thanks folks, that makes sense.

[SocialArc]

Also, make sure to explain all the details properly as if the client is not satisfied, he might ask for a refund anytime.