Warning
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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I’m frustrated with Linkworth
Thanks you for visiting. Please consider subscribing to the RSS feed.I’m a little frustrated right now. This isn’t the post I’d wanted to write about Linkworth. I wanted to dig deep into their website and try to explain in simple terms all of the monetization opportunities that are available. But, I can’t do it.
I’ve had […]
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Google’s Hypocrisy
Virtual Marketing Blog is reporting that Text-Link-Ads has been penalized by Google, dropping to 43 in the SERPs for their own name despite a PR 7 ranking, and points out Google’s hypocrisy on the issue of paid links in general and Text-Link-Ads Adsense spending specifically. Good stuff, especially since I’ve been waiting for this shoe […]
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Warning: PPP TOS changing again
Major well-deserved drama
I simply don’t have the energy to do a re-hash of yesterday’s developments being discussed in the 19-page thread (and counting) linked above. I stayed up too late participating in it.
I will say this one thing, however: I know I am a supplier of a service, and as my customer you can change […]
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PayPerPost & Argus
Let’s get back to what we’re all here for, making money through the use of paid posts.
Ted Murphy at PPP wrote a rather extensive post on the PPP blog about Argus, the next-generation of PPP’s marketplace. I say "next-generation" rather than "next iteration" because Argus is truly revolutionary and disruptive, as Ted alludes to in […]
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Why I walked away from a $100 review
I’ve written around 15 or so reviews at SponsoredReviews.com, most of them coming from bids I submitted. Last week, I was sent an unsolicited review request for my poker blog. My rate for SponsoredReviews.com on the poker blog is much higher than I charge for direct-contact reviews.
(By the way, the cheapest way to get a […]
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How PayPerPost is improving blogging ethics
Around mid-day on Monday, 8/13, PayPerPost CEO Ted Murphy set off a firestorm with a tough-worded post throwing down the gauntlet to the folks that are gaming the Google and Alexa ranks.
So many advertisers believe in Alexa ranks. Pity. Someday they’ll learn how amazingly simple it is to game the system. in fact, it’s […]
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7 Things That Mean You Are A Scumbag
As more and more money enter the paid post marketplace, unethical practices have cropped up. Some of it is simply due to ignorance; others are more sinister. People knowingly engaged in these practices are scumbags.
There, I said it.
The current version of the PayPerPost marketplace lends itself to many of these practices. This is the downside […]
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Bloggerwave Update
UPDATE:
I got paid!
“This email confirms that you have received a payment of $40.00 USD from bloggerwave”
If the guys from Bloggerwave read this - thank you! I’ve updated the original post with this as well.
Glad to see you’ve worked things out.
2 comments:
VivienneQuek said…
Congrats… Glad you got your payment. Perhaps, like I said, […]
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Bloggerwave: The other side of the coin
UPDATE:
I got paid!
"This email confirms that you have received a payment of $40.00 USD from
bloggerwave"
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Most of the websites I deal with are reputable and pay on time. Unfortunately, there are always exceptions to this. Case in point: Bloggerwave.
Bloggerwave presents itself as a consumer-generated advertising broker. Their interface is so similar to PayPerPost that several bloggers […]
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