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Are You Mad At Googl?
Wow! People have been seriously unhappy with Googl Google lately.
Are you mad at Googl Google?
Yes it’s true ever since Matt Cutts announced a new way to report sites that sell links with Google spam report form there has been a serious amount of heated discussion’s on the net. The paid text link has been under scrutiny ever since. Unlike the AdSense ad the text link makes the site owner and in most cases the broker a flat fee for an ad display per month.
Google does consider buying text links for PageRank purposes to be outside our quality guidelines. Most people use words like, SPONSORS, PARTNERS, FEATURED, ADVERTISERS, ADS and other synonymous terms related to advertisers. Our suggestion is to use ‘different’ titles for these ads. Something like RELATED SITES, COOL SITES, RESOURCES, ALTERNATIVE LINKS and so on. Matt Cutts
Did you know that keyword search term “Googl” receives 42,797 hits per month? Sorry Google just a little misspelled exploitation for traffic, hope you do not mind and will index my article quickly to the first page. Thank you in advance.
The thing I find most funny about text link ads being scrutinized is the fact that Googl Google themselves have been selling AdSense ads to services such as Text-Link-Ads.com and TextLinkBrokers.com for which serve as a third party for selling text link ads for profit. Selling ads to these companies seems like a huge contradiction in Google’s policy.
Why? Is this policy actually in effect? AdSense text link broker ads are still coming up in searches “text links”. My actual opinion is basic in the form of a question. Question: would you allow an ad on your site if say an advertiser pays you $50,000 even if it’s against policy? If you answered yes then you are influenced just like the rest of us including Google.
The world revolves around money!
Now in defense of Google with a basic understanding as to why the policy scrutinizes against paid text links ads. In Googl Google’s complex algorithm each link counts as a vote used for search engine determination of PageRank and content rank. So the more votes the higher the influence a particular site of interest has for key term rich word(s) searched.
Text Links Ads equal; Votes, PageRank, Content Rank, Direct Traffic and Organic Traffic.
TextLinkBrokers.com on their website say “we understand that it is important to keep our inventory confidential. This is essential in order to prevent the search engines from penalizing our inventory partners from passing link popularity to our clients.”
Essential to prevent search engine penalization but Google sells AdSense ads to them?
Would you purchase a link with the value “nofollow” more likely not because what’s the point. Webmasters purchase links with one sole purpose in mind and that is pagerank, content rank and the organic traffic that comes from those links (votes).
The “nofollow” value for links was introduced by Googl and others in 2005 to “prevent comment spam.” Google back then said they “encourage you to use the rel=’nofollow’ attribute anywhere that users can add links by themselves, including within comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.”
Do you see a problem with paid text links? Are paid links fair?
This is a gray area for most website owners given the fact that most sites do in fact sell text link ads either directly or via a broker. A quick assumption to make would mostly likely be “Google blank blank” for this “blank blank” policy enforcement.
Another angle would be this will aid in more relevancy within searches and stop sites with the most money from ranking to the top so fast.
Are you mad at Googl?
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I can’t really be mad at them but I don’t think it is smart of them to discount paid links. I don’t think it will have much of an effect on rankings if they do win the battle against paid links.
No, I am not mad at google. Just practical. Beggars can not be choosers. One waits for more competition!
Google search engine has been lacking for sometime. The sometimes the results are not as good as yahoo or msn even for some particular words. I totally understand why they want to clear out some junk sites with only adsense on them. Web developers and SEO’s will find other ways to get listed and have paid links.
I haven’t gone down the paid links route, so G hasn’t punished me – but I don’t have any PR to speak of anyway, so it’s a bit of a moot point! A 2 point PR drop would be bothersome though…
I can’t be pissed because I don’t use anything that Google is against. But I can clearly see how that many websites are affected by the changes. Well, now we will have to adjust to the Google’s algorithms and rules again.
What is the best way to stay up on the algorithms. Is there any way to beat the competition in doing so. How can i stay ahead of the pack???
The best way is to stay updated on the latest developments. Simple.
That’s hilarious that Google frowns upon selling links, but their Adsense ads have featured websites which sell links!
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I don’t use anything that Google is against,I don’t want to be bounced, Google is still the No.1 of the internet search filed.
Google is getting rather autocratic, but is there any serious alternative? They seem to own the internet.
Google’s that company we all love to hate.
Also, I don’t think I saw you on the front page anymore for “Googl”
I don’t see you on the first page either.
I’m kind of indifferent on this one, I don’t buy links so I do care what they do to everyone that does.
Matt
I’m not mad at all … and I think it’s a non-sequiter to point to AdSense and text link brokers. AdSense links don’t carry any PR benefit, being javascript.
Actually, I wouldn’t hesitate to buy a nofollow link if I were in the market for advertising. PR bearing links seem to come on their own, given some time; I’m really a great deal more interested in getting people to my site. Regardless of the source. So while it’s nice to get a link with two benefits, immediate and residual … getting a link that people click on is what’s truly important to me.
I am not really mad,I know the link selling business has taken a big punch with this but many of those sites sells link for PR and not for traffic. Though the fact that google is sending them traffice via adwords is still a mystery, oh well… google just want to control every market on the web.
Do you think there is actually someone within Google who fully understands their own system? It is so huge it blows you mind just trying to imagine.
google, was once great search, but recently, i found google has become more and more commericallise, it only show you the link it want to show you, which is those who pay heavy money, but always the correct search result is it.
Matt cutts seems to have so much power over the entire google system but the entire system is completely crazy. Anyway, google can do whatever they want
I have to say I do love your banner. Anyway to point…google does piss me off, they generally make rules so it makes it so difficult to climb the rankings, and because they are the most used search engine (and arguably the most comprehensive) you just have to settle for it and try and work out what their alithrograms (spelling?) want you to do.
If it’s for ranking/pagerank purposes then I can see them having a problem, but if you’re buying for traffic (ie. buying a text link on a popular website) then I can’t see the issue.