Comments on: Five Ways Google Should Know My Posts Do NOT Contain Paid Links

By: Useless Link Detector: Is it useful? : Big Bucks Blogger

Useless Link Detector: Is it useful? : Big Bucks Blogger — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:19:26 +0000

[...] Link Center’s “Useless Link Detector!” thought 6 of the nine links inside my post Five Ways Google Should Know My Posts Do NOT Contain Paid Links are “useless”. Which? In the quote below, I’d linked to seven blogs, the ones [...]

By: Lucia

Lucia — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:42:34 +0000

@Lynne: I’m in the same boat as you! PR 0– so there’s no way to tell if I get a google hit on this blog. (I shouldn’t!)

By: Lynne

Lynne — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:24:40 +0000

Seems that some companies put a lot of stock in the Google PR and yet Google only seems to be awarding those sites that ONLY earn revenue for Google. If a site is earning revenue for anyone other than Google, Google is punishing that site. Seems like a conflict of interest to me. But heck, I started my site after the last Google update as well and remain at a 0 after almost 4 months. Who am I to say?

By: Lucia

Lucia — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:11:43 +0000

@Lord Matt. Yep. “Pile it higher and Deeper”, as they say.

Having read the TLC page, I think Text Link Center is providing this to market their paid links. I’m figure they are going to provide a service with links in content and don’t get found by their algorithm. Of course, that may not make their links any more or less useful than others, but I would say that it’s probably better to get in content links rather than sidebar, header or footer links.

You don’t need their “Useless Link Meter” to figure that out.

By: Lord Matt

Lord Matt — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:53:44 +0000

I did not know you had a Phd. Figures though as you have always been a brightly intelligent blogger. I don’t think this has anything to do with paid links but everything to do with leverage of market strength.

By: Lucia

Lucia — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:01:27 +0000

@CyberCelt: Well.... I'll only give them to you after I run the links through The Useless Link Detector. After all, why trade useless links? (This program is hilarious.)

By: CyberCelt

CyberCelt — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:15:29 +0000

I just linked to you from 2 PR4+ blogs on the main page. Now, give me a pretty link spots please. LOL

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By: Lucia

Lucia — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:00:53 +0000

@WebGrrrl: Got that fixed! (I never could spell worth a darn.)

@Chris: I’ve read others suggest the reason you give.

Still, I do sometimes sympathize with Google on mortgage / viagra / pharmaceuticals etc. paid links. Those are such profitable search terms. But other stuff? I see so many issues on both the “paid links are good” and “paid links are bad” sides.

By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:44:24 +0000

“why should Google mind that the PPP network has people posting links to the actual, honest to goodness url for a movie that is about to be launched?”

Because Google aren’t getting paid for it.

That’s all this is about in my opinion, protecting their ad revenue. As you say, no-one’s going to buy irrelevant text links, so they are not negatively affecting the SERPs at all – they’re just not spending the money on an adsense campaign……

By: Lorna

Lorna — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:55:57 +0000

By the way, it’s WebGrrrl with a triple R