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CommentTuesday, April 17, 2007

7 Reasons Google's Paid Link Snitch Plan Sucks

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Ever hair loss website or a

Ever hair loss website or a hemorrhoid treatment review site, to review any claims and come with the best product? The best product in many cases seems to be a check that pays the highest, and this kind of websites are all talking about the product, instead of talking about: You know what kind of hemorrhoids, or define say hair loss, but then They say: Buy this fix to the problem.

Google

Y thinks Google wants to be a monopoly of the internet on the world. no??

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Good informative post. Thanks

You got it all wrong hemroids

First of all we never signed up for Google’s club membership. Should I remind you that Google have had indexed our sites without asking us for our permission and that is my friend called highway robbery.

Second, whom the hell they think they are to tell us how we must to build and to maintain our sites and what we can and cannot do on our own web pages. It’s like if thief break into your house and then complain that your wine has too worm and there was no lemon to eat your caviar sandwiches.

Third, 99% of sites will never see top 100 pages anyway and because of that who cares if site is indexed by G or not. Furthermore, without our sites Google is nothing if we were smart, we would tell this little bitch Google to ask our permission and to accept our conditions and pay us for the privilege to list our sites.

Finally. We should use robots.txt and every other means to keep G. away and I promise you Google will be left with nothing more than pharma, porno and fitness sites and that will teach evil bastards at Google who is the Boss
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Hypocritical

I agree wholeheartedly with your comments that it is the height of hypocracy for Google to try to prevent others from selling links when they are the premier link sellers on the internet and their whole business model is based upon selling links. Excellent synopsis.

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Good informative post.

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too bad google can do

too bad google can do whatever they want, it doesn't really matter what we think

Very good point... however..

its already grown too big to stop as little sense as it makes , can't blame them tho, theres money to be made.

Even so...

Google has the right to go in this direction seeing that its working.

Informative Article

Very good read. Thanks!

Paid links

Hi,

For the most part, I don't think a visitor can normally tell a paid link from a nonpaid one.  Which does raise a moral problem - we expect political office holders to disclose, don't we?  Same thing, vested interest and all that, that goes with that. 

Don't believe me?

Ever been to hair loss website, or a hemorrhoid treatment review website, that claims to do a review and come up with the best product?  The best product in many cases seems to be the one that pays the highest kickback, and  these type of websites are all about product talk rather than information talk:  They may tell you what a hemorrhoid is, or define hair loss, but then they say buy this to fix the problem.

So that's issue 1, the vested interests of the webmaster over the visitor.

But, lets get real, if Google wants the PR not interfered with by paid links, they have just as much right as anyone else to ask for help in detecting them.

Like anyone asking for help, there is no law that states you have to help, but if you like the guy - the search engine in this case - then you are more likely to help I think.

I don't think there is a wrong or right in someone deciding to help google out, that's an individual decision. So that's issue 2, freedom to request help, freedom to give help.

Most people who get mad at this sort of thing, I think, are the ones into black hat SEO, and want their or their customer sites high in Google without getting them there the Google way.

See the point - they want to rank high in Google serps, but they don't want to follow the rules of the club.  What happens when a club member doesn't follow club rules - they get kicked out or severely cautioned.  So that's issue 3, If you want to join in the club activities regularly, join the club, follow the rules.

For those 3 issues, well, I come down on the side of Google in this case.

Consideration

SEO and paid links are about connections in alot of ways. The guys who have money and can afford paid links and have access to the kinds of paid links that are going to matter and evaluate as trusted are doing well. The paid snitch program is a way to keep other businesses happy.

Asking Yahoo to Help

Half of the issue is the siteexplorer in Yahoo.com. If Yahoo removed the ability to check backmining in their search engine, backlinks to websites would be transparent and there would be less link selling / buying.

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Google

Google wants to be a monopoly of the internet

You said, that no one likes

You said, that no one likes this idea, were we reading the same blog?

Great list....

i would have to agree with you. But, it is not so much that they allow people to rat out other people it is that they seem to depend on that to find links that you would think they would be able to find on their own. But, you are absolutely correct when you say that people will abuse this feature for their own gain. One would think that Google is smart enough to understand this and put in safe guards against abuses such as you outline. You would think....

Quality

The algos can take care of most of this.

Do a search for any city or town in the USA, and the results are pure garbage - nothing but 5,000 page sites with virtually no information once you get there.

 

.....but, they have plenty of Adsense ads.

The negative part of the Adwords/Adsense ads is that it bloated the creation of garbage websites exponentially.

 

 

 

 

It's a monopoly

What can I say? Google's been letting it get to their heads in this monopoly. Stay true to our right to freedom of speech is what I say. Good post, sir. Good post.

If google wants to discard

If google wants to discard paid links, that's fine. But to eliminate and demote the website is a bit extreme

The whole buying and selling

The whole buying and selling of links is done to manipulate the search results. AdWords is powered by Javascript and has no effect on search engine results.

wow

Thats is a pretty crazy idea.  Asking the same people that buy and sell links to report people buying and selling links?

Relevance

What is the relevance of this in regards to the old standbys: JoeAnt, BOTW etc.  In another article here on webpro, getting a good link foundation by using these moderately priced directories is mentioned as a key implementation process before getting large quanitites of lower quality links. 

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