Comments on: Losing Sleep Over Google’s Move On Paid Links?

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:35:18 +0000

Hi David – Yes, it will :)

Thomas – I would click on the link in the post to Garry Conn’s site regarding his conversation with TLA. TLA says that they are hiding links, but Google may not stop there. I’m not sure how aggressive they will be to hunt down paid links, but they’ve already been asking people to report sites that have paid links. Who knows, Google may even crawl your site and see that you have a TLA widget installed. I’m not sure how far they will go….

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:24:00 +0000

So I should drop TLA if I want to keep Google happy? Was hoping to get a nice income from them so this really sucks!

Have TLA said anything about this?

By: David Airey

David Airey — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:48:10 +0000

Thanks for the mention, Susan. It was definitely a learning experience having my search rankings penalised.

As you say, it’ll be interesting to see how this all pans out.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:47:29 +0000

Robert – It was a great article!

StarFeeder – Yep, essentially it comes down to hiding links through “no follow”. :) It sucks that all links would need no follow, because lots of users honestly link to other sites with no payment…so it’ll be curious to see how Google enforces their rules.

David – Yahoo gets better advertiser conversion rates than Google, so it’ll be interesting to see how this shakes out.

By: david

david — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:13:57 +0000

Google is getting serious I guess. They made this move because if they don’t they are just like yahoo where $ gives you the best ranking in the search engine. They are just trying to be fair to everyone.

By: Starfeeder

Starfeeder — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:35:53 +0000

but the rel=”nofollow” should fix all that correct? That would mean people are legally selling advertising space on their site, so humans may see that ad and click on it, benefiting publisher, advertiser and user, but not page rank. Google shouldn’t have a problem with that…

David Airey’s blog scared and and I placed no=”follow” links on most of my external links, even tho none of the were paid. 0_0

By: Robert Clough

Robert Clough — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:58:52 +0000

Thanks for the mention, Susan!