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PickyDomains – Risk-Free Naming Service (pickydomains.com)
20 points by steeples on Jan 25, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


I noticed they are soliciting reviews (read: links) to their site and paying for them:

http://www.pickydomains.com/make-money

...including a requirement that the site have a PageRank of 2. Is this consistent with Google policies or are they going to get dinged down the results because of this behavior?


Technically, they aren't asking for links, just reviews—definitely a gray area.

It would be a lot less suspect if they didn't require the blogger to have a PR 2. To me that just screams "I need backlinks!"


Kind of dark grey.


They're small enough that unless a Googler puts in a manual penalty they're unlikely to get dinged.


I recently named my android app and website through them. It was quite a straightforward and pleasant experience.





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