Comments on: Blog World 2007: Paid Text Links, Google, and You

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By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:45:06 +0000

LOL yes it was. I actually arrived at the beginning of the day on Friday and there was NO ONE in front of the convention center. Not one person. I went upstairs to register and again I saw like 2 people. I joked to the organizer guy “hey where is everyone” and he kind of looked at me nervously. It was definitely a small conference. They also had so many sessions, filled with so few people, that they all looked very empty. Wasn’t a bad show though, decent info, and they got some big bloggers to show up.

By: Domtan

Domtan — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:41:03 +0000

Scott, was the Blog World as empty as it looked in every pictures and videos posted on blogs?

By: JDog

JDog — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:20:45 +0000

Not only that…John Chow is wearing Shoemoney’s T-shirt…Congrats to Shoemoney!!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:35:05 +0000

I’ll gladly take that iphone and macbook if Chow doesn’t want to use it.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:25:59 +0000

“Are you saying that selling text links without the rel=”nofollow” attr is still okay as long as you hide it well from Google, despite Google has been penalising both the sellers and brokers for reducing the relevance of Google’s search result, which is their core business?”

I’m saying that google will have no way of knowing whether or not you were paid for a link as long as you are discreet - the link should look just like any other, and you shouldn’t advertise the fact that you’re selling paid links. The problem comes when you embed an automated function from someplace like text link ads to display your paid links, then google can easily see what you’re doing. All these sites use text link ads:
http://www.google.com/search?q=function+tla_ads

By: Rock

Rock — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:37:28 +0000

Thanks for sharing all the information you are getting from BlogWorld.

That last paragraph and picture about John Chow had me chuckling.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:57:52 +0000

Are you saying that selling text links without the rel=”nofollow” attr is still okay as long as you hide it well from Google, despite Google has been penalising both the sellers and brokers for reducing the relevance of Google’s search result, which is their core business?

By: chipseo

chipseo — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:16:31 +0000

I guess it would have been nice to have something “official” said about the PR system at a conference like BlogWorld Expo, but I guess not.

I keep seeing clips on the news about the conference, thanks for the update, Scott