Paid Post Debate
Pulling together the Google penalty threads
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Let’s tie the various posts I’ve written over the past few months together into some coherent form, shall we?
In October, I pointed out that using human reviewers to penalize websites for selling links was unfair, given that this is a highly subjective process that can’t […]
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Should PayPerPost file an antitrust claim against Google?
Came across this article thanks to Digg: Could PayPerPost Have an Antitrust Case Against Google?
To think that an antitrust case isn’t part of the exit strategy at IZEA is probably naive. If Socialspark catches fire, there would probably not be any action. But, if theyre just treading water and burning cash, a lawsuit does two […]
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Google Page Rank Penalties Not Real?
Oh, it’s been a while since I used the phrase Google Lies, and since I believe I may now be legally bound to use it at least once a month, just click the link below to Andy Beard and read for yourself. Here’s a teaser:
It seems Google used their real dataset for PageRank for the […]
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Are buyers of sponsored links set up for deals of the century?
Search Engine Roundtable continues to report that sites hit with Google’s PR penalty for sponsored links continue to pass link juice. While it is impossible to measure the value of the link juice being passed, buyers of sponsored links are supposedly not seeing corresponding drops in their PR.
Toolbar PR and internal-to-Google PR have always been […]
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Absolutely
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?” - Harry Shearer
Just thought this quote was apropos. It’s a Google-world, we just live in it. Back to your normal scheduling.
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Is this proof that even a blind squirrel can find a nut?
I was having a hard time deciding if I should go with the title you see or go with “Social Media Eating Google’s Lunch”
In the end, I went for whimsy.
Also, comparing search and social media is really an apples-to-oranges comparison. There’s a lot of people that are proclaiming social media as a competitor to Google, […]
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Google’s Hypocrisy: The villagers are sharpening the knives
This was a good week for exposing the hypocrisy of Google and A-list bloggers!
You have Ron over at Linkworth doing some serious competitive research on how Google sells pagerank AND site reviews. I’m not going to steal his thunder, but the post is a follow up to his original post about Google selling pagerank. […]
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Google sells text links that pass Pagerank
If you have any doubts about whether my assertions about Google (Google Lies, Google squashing competition, Google’s Hypocrisy), please pop over to the Linkworth blog where they will show you where you can buy a solid PR 7 backlink from GOOGLE for $1,995 per year.
No people, those of you who continue to assert that Google’s […]
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PageRank vs. RealRank vs. Something Else?
So, I’ve been mute the past few days with regard to the latest monopolistic business practice by Google. To be honest, I was stunned that Google moved so dramatically against such a narrow segment of the blogosphere, ignoring the A-listers and their bogus “thanks to our sponsors” posts that provides SEO benefits to paying advertisers. […]
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Even the big boys make mistakes, too
See, when you have a shitty business model and spend all of your time engaged in evil monopolistic business strategies instead of focusing on providing your customers with an experience so wonderful they don’t even think of trying alternative business models, these kind of mistakes are bound to occur: Behavioral Targeting at Google
What’s the big […]
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