Paid Post Debate
Google is Evil
Thanks you for visiting. Please consider subscribing to the RSS feed.I’m a little slow linking it up, but the guys at the Linkworth Blog have a great post proving Google is Evil. I kid you not, the variables that had to come into alignment for them to get the screen-capture in this post are so […]
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Google lies: Paid posts add to search engine relevancy, create competition
As anyone who has ever bought or written a paid post knows, the advertiser nearly always specifies anchor text for links. This anchor text is always relevant to the page the advertiser is trying to promote. After all, a publisher of a website about mortgages isn’t going to waste his money getting ranked for ‘hot […]
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A different take on the Google update
There’s a lot of "I never sold links" statements from A-listers after Google’s pagerank update. I won’t point them out publicly. But, allow me to play Devil’s Advocate for a moment.
Your ads run through an ad server, so they don’t pass link juice. Cool.
At the end of every month you post a "thanks to my […]
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Google’s Hypocrisy
Until Google develops an algorithm that understands the motivation behind a link, it will have to rely on human reviewers and not their core competency, a scalable automated ranking system, and will never achieve consistency on the issue of paid links.
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PayPerPost employees take time off to mock transvestites and cartoon characters
PayPerPost programmers took time out of their busy coding schedule to attend a nerd-fest where they proceeded to dress like fictional female superheros and hand out PPP swag. What are these guys doing taking personal time on a weekend when there is $10M of investor money on the line? And I suppose the fact that […]
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NFL to sell ads on team websites
Hope they "nofollow" those ads. Would hate to see them take a google penalty…
From the Tampa Bay Business Journal:
The National Football League is closing in on a new digital media model that would see the league sell advertising across all 32 team Web sites for the first time while clubs would keep sponsorship space for […]
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The paid-post debate goes from personal to nasty
What an idiot. Arrington over at Techcrunch slammed PPP again, this time accusing the folks over there of racism because some of them dressed up as indians during a scavenger hunt.
Must be time for Arrington’s quarterly poke at PPP. I’m pretty sure he has a reminder set in his Outlook calendar. And this was all […]
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Is the tide beginning to turn?
Last week, we saw Entrepreneur publish a short objective article about paid-posts. Today, WSJ.com has an article about paid-posts that is also done in an objective tone.
Could we be on the verge of losing our "bad-boy" images?
And, what’s with an article in major media that doesn’t include a quote from Colleen? What’s up […]
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You Should Be Reading: Entrepreneur Magazine - Pay the Piper?
Entrepreneur Magazine: Pay the Piper?
With all of the controversial coverage of paid blogging brokers in "traditional" media, I was surprised to read a very balanced article in Entrepreneur magazine, usually one of the most pimp-tastic magazines on the planet. I wrote earlier about their coverage of BWAMs, but this article was directly relevant to the […]
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I’m full of donuts
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Robert Scoble on July 25th, 2007 1:01 am Per-item disclosure in an RSS feed is NOT required. Since I only read items in RSS readers anymore not requiring […]
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