Comments on: Matt Cutts Confirms Paid Links & Google PageRank Update

By: Dizi

Dizi — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:24:59 +0000

Google must not stop link selling

Because google must think about webmasters

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:45:30 +0000

So does this mean that if I buy text links from, say, textlinkads.com, my site won’t get penalized ?

By: Holger

Holger — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:15:30 +0000

I think Google will clean the search results for a better relevance ranking. Is it like this?

By: Manuel Gallego

Manuel Gallego — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:05:39 +0000

i never sold a link from my site ucables.com, but this summer i put a link to my new girlffriend website about real estate: ibizaloft.com and from october i lost my pagerank from 5 to 0.
i have send some messages to google to reconsider my site, but i have not received any response after 2 months. My traffic decreased 20% and continue decreasing. I have removed this link already from my site.
I think google should try at least to contact with owner before to do this type of action.

By: Kenneth Watt

Kenneth Watt — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:02:33 +0000

I wouldn’t mind so much about the PR as that’s really just a status thing when people look at the green bar, it’s like owning a BMW, nice but ultimately not required to get from A to B.

What I do object to is Google having magically wiped out a whole load of traffic that we did receive for no apparent reason and with no means to contact them to talk to someone about it. I have tried.

We don’t sell links that I am aware of but we do run some ads that aren’t Adwords and to be honest, should that really matter on how good a site is or how good and relevant the information is on it to the search query? But then as a busy webmaster running a business as well as a social site, do I have the time to vet every link on a large site, the answer is a simple no, I don’t.

So, I have to assume that, if the traffic dropped after this update, primarily a drop from Google that somehow, the innocent are being punished with the guilty and, that’s not fair.

By: Nofollow them all, let Google sort them out

Nofollow them all, let Google sort them out — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:53:19 +0000

Wouldn’t it be true that formatting links SPECIFICALLY so that they look unpaid, to try to get them to pass page rank so you can accept increased payments for them, is only worth doing because a search engine (Google) exists?

But does accepting increased payments for paid links that pass page rank mean you are making links for search engines to benefit yourself? Or, put another way, does making paid links “for users not search engines” mean formatting paid links appropriately, so as to not pass page rank/game search engines?

By: Terry Quested

Terry Quested — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:50:28 +0000

It should be obvious to everybody reading this blog that pagerank is now meaningless. I no longer use google but prefer Yahoo (or actually wabbadabba.com where you stand a chance of winning a prize). I used to display my pagerank on my site but no longer do so. I have replaced it with SEOmoz’s page strength. Their pagestrength give an accurate indication of the value of your website. And they also give indicators of exactly what they use to calculate your pagestrength – what a difference from Google!. Try it! You can also add the pagestrength indicator to your browser toolbar and scrap Google’s useless pagerank indicator. The only way that Google is going to understand that they are now a joke is when people stop using them.

By: Scott for SEO

Scott for SEO — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:32:32 +0000

With so many high ranking site showing low PageRank, I think all we should be asking Google to clarify this situation. Some sites have thousands of paid links, but they aren’t punished. If the link farm or commercial linking site is still highly ranked on Google, and several are, why should their customers be punished?

By: ved

ved — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:31:22 +0000

It is better to finish the concept of page rank. Your algorithms is different for one and different for another, doing partiality…

By: SEO contrarians

SEO contrarians — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:55:09 +0000

The visible google page rank is a misleading short cut which we all use but which we shouldn’t. It’s a bad habit even glancing at that green bar.

I’ve said as much myself. But now, page rank has been used by google is a novel way….as a warning shot to those that google perceives are not “white hat” enough.