Comments on: Google penalizes blogs which sell paid links

By: Norhafidz

Norhafidz — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:26:12 +0000

Uncle G Control the environment, they showed that when they penalized all the websites. What did I do? I still sell links but not in huge quantity

By: Big Ben Patton

Big Ben Patton — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:13:51 +0000

Unless your going the route of John Chow I would not recommend messing with google about page rank or selling links, avoid it at all costs period, if your caught and you are not a high word of mouth blog you will have just shot yourself in the foot and cut off your own nose all at the same time.

By: cool stuff

cool stuff — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:29:25 +0000

I heard about this big shockwave.. and honestly, I think it’s ridiculous. The big G wants control of everything. You guys are right, the only good thing is the PR scale is now different and a pr4 is worth much more.

By: Buying Cameras

Buying Cameras — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:59:17 +0000

I really don’t know how Google can manage to keep an eye on all these links! They must have a complicated system..

By: Thilak

Thilak — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:09:41 +0000

Linu: Yeah, I noticed that. Thanks for the update once again

By: Linu

Linu — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:53:23 +0000

Hi Thilak:
Did you notice. Page Rank 6 return to you!
It must be the result removing the paid links. Same thing happened to Problogger.net too
Linu

By: Selbourne Designing

Selbourne Designing — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:42:50 +0000

not only blogs …but its also websites.
But one things is that the PR is gonna be only more valuable. So i guess a PR 4 is the new PR6 ?
Maybe

By: Ken - Hoobin.com

Ken - Hoobin.com — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:55:34 +0000

Hi, nice blog here. Just my 2cents. Whether you are quality content provider or not, if you sell links, google will go after you since it’s affect their search algorithm.

Man, we really need to find for a better source of advertisement income.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:47:51 +0000

And that’s exactly why only the bigger blogs are being penalized for now. Copyblogger seems to have got its ranking back, but for some others the road seems to go further down!

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:35:23 +0000

Smaller websites have been waiting for a page rank update for months now. Google should either update all page ranks or remove the feature completely.

The problem is that the internet is too big to manually rank sites so they have to come up with generalised algorithms that look at links and such.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:47:45 +0000

No, we didn’t Yet, neither does b5, now, unless Google are going back a long way.

I would’ve thought relevant outlinks were OK, but it’s appearing not.

By: Thilak

Thilak — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:43:51 +0000

Andy: Yeah, but at Blue Fish, we didn’t follow those wicked principles of blankly linking. Or did we?

By: Brad Dolley

Brad Dolley — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:16:29 +0000

Yea, Dont feel too bad, I haven’t even had a page rank..

Google doesnt bother to update the “Smaller” blogs.

http://daily-rambler.blogspot.com

That sucks about your page rank though, It must of been hard to get!

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:42:54 +0000

Good job we stopped Blue Fish when we did, eh?

I’m not wholly convinced to stop paid links at present. Though they aren’t my main source of income, they’re not insignificant, and my PR hasn’t been drastically affected (then again, the PR wasn’t so high in the first place)

I personally think it’s far too early to say exactly how or why Google has acted this way, or even that PR won’t “resettle” over the next few days.