: Discounts for free blog post We are thinking about offering a discount for our service (real estate listing site) if a client (real estate agent, rental agent) writes a blog post about our

@Sherry384

From the Google Webmaster Guidelines: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en

Buying or selling links that pass PageRank. This includes exchanging
money for links, or posts that contain links; exchanging goods or
services for links; or sending someone a “free” product in exchange
for them writing about it and including a link


While you are offering a discount versus free services, I would rather suspect that Google would consider your proposal to be in violation of the spirit of the webmaster guidelines.

While you may not get caught, I would not suggest proceeding with your plans.

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