Google

SES San Jose, the debate between webmasters and search engines are at an impasse, with both Google and Yahoo agreeing that paid links that passes PageRank is a violation of the search engines quality guidelines.

Some of the top ranking paid directories to fall victim to Google’s campaign to stump out paid links that pass pagerank (PPP) are Aviva, Alive, Big Web Links, ewebpages, Directory Dump, Elegant Directory, and text-links-ads.