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By: Brandie

Brandie — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:43:08 +0000

oh no!!! That’s not good at all! I haven’t gotten it yet, but that’s only because my blog isn’t 90 days old yet. I hope they fix it!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:27:28 +0000

I was getting ready to use PPP too, and now I’m not so sure…

Have you heard about the new advertising option that just came out for webmasters? Supposedly sponsored by one of the top 5 search engines. They pay you to place 5 second ads on your website, and the affiliate program is 2 levels deep and pays 5% per referral. Link is on my name, let me know what you think. I got a bunch of emails about it and have seen it all over the net, after only a day. Looks like something very big…

By: JOhn Doe

JOhn Doe — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:01:40 +0000

I cant believe bloggers are still pretending that this is a big google conspiracy.

The truth of the matter is this :

You have links on your site (whether paid or not) that are totally unrelated to your content. Previously this was not accounted for and hence you linking to me and me linking to you brought everyone in the link chain up in Pagerank.

A person talking about God could link to someone talking about motorsport. Yet the pagerank increased. Well – Google realised that the pagerank mechanism was obviously flawed.

Fixing this meant all the little link chains that bloggers depended on collapsed. This is the right thing to do. If you talk about motorsport – then link only to motorsport sites that confirm your topic.

The simple fact is that google cannot determine who paid who for a link – it cannot keep a lookup table with this information – it would be impossible to maintain. Sure – they could list the main culprits – but I could still pay Tyler for a link on this blog and they would never know.

Its reaffirming links that count. So make them mean something.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:20:40 +0000

wow looks like a lot of you guys got affected. good thing I never used ppp, but then again I’m still making less money than you guys lol.

By: Everyday Weekender

Everyday Weekender — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:32:52 +0000

I went from PR5 to PR 0 yo!

By: Harry Noott

Harry Noott — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:03:16 +0000

Yep I got slapped, google are trying to intimidate you, dont let it happen.

By: Jono

Jono — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:57:25 +0000

I can totally understand that Google wants to stop people from buying links for SEO purposes – they want to keep quality sites ranking well, but who says SEO is the only reason you use PPP/ReviewMe?

Google are making site owners scared of linking to other web sites at the risk the getting a PR of 0.

Regardless of whether I sell links for money, isn’t putting a free link to a mate’s site the same? What about blog rolls – will Google penalise you if you don’t have nofollow’s on those links??

There has to be a better way of addressing this – links are what makes the WWW.