Comments on: Google Watching Paid Review Blogs that Pass PageRank

By: Jagoane.com

Jagoane.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:24:18 +0000

how to google accept paid reviews. And the pagerank is not falling

By: David Brice

David Brice — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:33:45 +0000

I think that there is a big difference between buying a blog review with links to drive traffic to your site and buying reviews with links purely to buy pagerank. Most blog reviews have degenerated into completely worthless words with a few links thrown in.

By: David

David — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:11:43 +0000

Thanks for the info friend. I will adding a disclosure policy to my blog now!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:11:57 +0000

This is a confusing subject matter.

What about blogs that aren’t paid but tend to do a lot of reviews?

I guess no follow would still be a good idea there.. you want to drive traffic to your blog first, then to the product, right? :)

By: Authority Online Magazine

Authority Online Magazine — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:24:11 +0000

I think google is confusing everybody including itself! Look at the yahoo directory listing which costs $200 and is much valued by google. Then they turn around and say that you on the other hand shouldn’t accept $25 for a link.

By: Forest Parks

Forest Parks — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:15:59 +0000

I have been doing paid reviews but trying to improve them so they are readable as posts too.

I am scare of losing my pagerank so may just bite the bullet and start a new blog.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:21:56 +0000

When Matt says “Links purchased for advertising should be designated as such.” is he implying that sites such as yellow pages sites should use no-follow?

By: Paul Gregg

Paul Gregg — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:54:36 +0000

Hi,

I my self just purchased 25 links from smorty. And i was position 5 for my search term and i am now 3 in a matter of 3 days. I dont understand the google “gods”… whats the diff between spending 300 on directory listings that STAGGER and having paid blog reviews built in such a way that it seems organic… I am new to this SEO stuff and am a bit concerned about this. Should i be worried?

By: Loren Baker, Editor

Loren Baker, Editor — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:08:53 +0000

Sweet :) Thanks Michael!

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:58:21 +0000

People are being greedy and that is why some of them are being caught.

When it comes to buying PageRank-passing links, people need to follow Google’s implied acceptable standards:

1) Only buy PageRank-passing links from Google-approved sources like Yahoo! and ThomasNet.

2) Don’t buy links in volume.

3) Create as many domains as you need to in order to buy PageRank-passing links from Google-approved link selling sources like Yahoo! and ThomasNet.

4) Get as much PageRank as you absolutely can because that is the only way you can be sure your content will be included in the Main Web Index, whose pages are shown in search results above more relevant content found only in the Supplemental Results Index.

5) Google does not believe in fair and open disclosure of the fact that it is suppressing useful, unique content. Disclosure is therefore not high on Google’s priority list.