Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On GooglePageRank. Now that’s changing. If you sell links, Google might indeed penalize your site plus drop the PageRank score that shows for it. The Stanford Daily is a good example of this. In my Time For Google To Give Up The Fight Against Paid Links? post from earlier this year, I looked at how the student newspaper of Stanford University was continuing to sell links despite widespread attention to its
