Why Google 'Kicked Me Off' (or at least 'Suspended My Google+ Account) for ''Spamming'' (I Think)

the program that might've been mistaken for a link-scheme https://join-adf.ly/8289510
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
August 10, 2018 6:42am CST
For one reason (at least 'to justify using a computer-program to decide "my blog and all the links to it I shared" were spam'): PageRank. At least, that's the word they used on this explanation of 'how linking too frequently to one site can be seen as a "link-scheme".' https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en&visit_id=1-636689998254784949-917663408&rd=1 Basically: their search-engine's 'algorithm' counts number-of-links-to-a-page in that page's PageRank (which Google uses to decide how high to place its result in searches that find it). But then a lot of webmasters convinced a bunch of others to 'flood their own webspace with links to the webmasters' site' (usually by giving them money for every time the link were used). That would mess up Google's algorithm, which they had designed to find the "most-popular" pages ... one blog-post with 100 links to a page could possibly be mistaken (by Google's automatic scanner-program) for '100 people linking to that page.' I had somehow 'got it into my head' that I could make money with an ad-program that--though it didn't ask for any money from the audience--would send any link-clickers to 'a redirect-page' that (though it was merely a 'step on the way' to "what they thought they were being linked-to") could be seen as a 'Rick-Roll' (link to a page other-than the page you thought a click would send you to). Google tells me I could've used that--if I added a 'rel="nofollow"'-attribute to the link's 'a'-tag. But the way I was using it (a link in every post to the same page), it might've been "reported" as SPAM---for either the 'Rick Roll'-reason or the same reason as 'the original Internet SPAM' (not the Monty Python sketch(es), but the glitch in a UseNet forum that caused a person's message to be copied & reposted to the same thread some 150 times). That, or I probably forgot to add the 'rel="nofollow"'-attribute (since I heard a rumor that 'it doesn't do anything), or I forgot why Google didn't want me to use it. So do you think I can use 'the ad-program' if I remember to add 'rel="nofollow"' to the links that I'm paid-for?
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
10 Aug 18
I got a warning from them recently because some spaz reported me for sharing a blog post with absolutely no affiliate links. It was the first time, but still kind of discouraging
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