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?

October 23, 2007 | posted in The Net 

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17 Responses to “Are You Mad At Googl?”

  1. Chad Holiday on October 23rd, 2007

    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.

  2. Music Dictionary on October 24th, 2007

    No, I am not mad at google. Just practical. Beggars can not be choosers. One waits for more competition!

  3. John Kain on October 24th, 2007

    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.

  4. music technology on October 25th, 2007

    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…

  5. prank videos on October 27th, 2007

    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.

  6. Paul from NewHomesSection on October 30th, 2007

    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???

  7. Althaf on November 6th, 2007

    The best way is to stay updated on the latest developments. Simple.

  8. SFK on November 8th, 2007

    That’s hilarious that Google frowns upon selling links, but their Adsense ads have featured websites which sell links!

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  10. kelvin on November 15th, 2007

    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.

  11. Furniture Store on November 27th, 2007

    Google is getting rather autocratic, but is there any serious alternative? They seem to own the internet.

  12. Patrick Burt on December 3rd, 2007

    Google’s that company we all love to hate. :) Also, I don’t think I saw you on the front page anymore for “Googl”

  13. 3tailer on December 4th, 2007

    I don’t see you on the first page either.

  14. Futon-Matt on December 14th, 2007

    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

  15. Forrest on December 26th, 2007

    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.

  16. web design on February 22nd, 2008

    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.

  17. Gadgets4nowt on February 22nd, 2008

    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.

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