Comments on: Matt Cutts Talks About Paid Links

By: name

name — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:16:21 +0000

Hi!,

By: TDave

TDave — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:38:23 +0000

I think paid reviews is a legitimate way to advertise. (It’s really no different than a paid press report - except that is has the publishers slant instead of the advertisers.) I understand Googles stance on the links with nofollow that are included in a paid review. They are merely a paid text link, but if Google keeps throwing around these penalties (and they probably will) then there won’t be many sites doing paid reviews because of the potential PR and Serps slap. The only way I see for a paid review site to stay successful is to require nofollow for the included links.

By: ScreenRant.com

ScreenRant.com — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:31:07 +0000

Pagerank may be irrelevant, but with the recent PR bloodbath which came in stages (my site went from a 6 to a 4 to a 3 and to zero), I was concerned that the next “level” would be SERPs.

So I removed my paid links, submitted a reinclusion request with an explanation and to my incredible suprise, within TWO DAYS I had a pagerank 4 again. I thought it would take months…

Vic

By: James Wilcox

James Wilcox — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:52:47 +0000

This just reinforces what we in the blogging industry have already decided, that PageRank is irrelevant.

By: James Pong

James Pong — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:44:59 +0000

It’s interesting to see where all these will go, you know - Google and those who are buying and selling text links. Free love links are the best thing - no punishment for either party, why bother paying money?

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:27:11 +0000

There’s a lot of finger pointing going on but ultimately, I don’t think there’s much that these paid link services can do to placate google. Google doesn’t want people messing up organically occurring links and page rank, but boosting page rank is the main reason why people buy links.

I do think paid reviews offer more value than just SEO benefit though. A paid review on a blog can gain long term RSS subscribers for the recipient. Simple paid text links, though, typically are bought just for their SEO value since traffic through those links is very low.

By: TDave

TDave — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:51:36 +0000

I understand the benefit of links for seo purposes but that can’t be the only benefit to “advertisers” that use these services.

Are any of these companies like reviewme, payperpost, or text link ads trying to go legitimate by adding or enforcing google’s nofollow rule on paid links, or are they just burying their heads in the sand hoping the problem will go away?

By: Paid Surveys Reviewed

Paid Surveys Reviewed — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:08:08 +0000

Nice one, you could be brothers!

I wonder where “Google pulling the plug” ranks in these company’s Risk Registers!

Hope you are enjoying LV. Soooo jealous.