DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Does Google hate PayPerPost?

  • StevenHodson · 1 year ago
    I gotta admit that even though I don't like the PPP method of income generation I'm not so sure that Google's moves in this area shouldn't be examined very very closely. After all using any advertising method that is a competitor to Google AdSense that can result in your losing status by a drop in another Google service definitely should sound some warning bells.
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    I agree, Steve.
  • limadang.com · 1 year ago
    Am not sure why this things actually happen, while some people cried for their page rank dropped, my page rank went up from PR0-PR3 and this had given me more OPPS daily.

    However for those who has severals blog, can surrender at least 1 of their blog to get index again. But to my case i don't think so.

    google is always be GOOOGle but remember if there is no US the user, There is NO google.

    So it's high time for ppp,reviewme and others providers to start using others method of measurement.

    :) Anyway Nice post. and subscribed your Feeds. will come back again and again matthew,

    Regards,
    benny
    Limadang.com
  • AndyBeard · 1 year ago
    Hi Mathew, Techmeme was a little slow in picking this one up, anything to do with search marketing these days seems to require a link from Techcrunch, so you are actually linking to a 2 day old syndicated article.

    The biggest problem with this and what got Duncan stirred up is that this is not being applied evenly, and Ted called Techcrunch out on some extremely blatant pagerank passing links.

    There has also been a huge amount of collateral damage, site that do not write paid reviews punished just for mentioning PPP, and there is no way to request reconsideration without saying you are guilty of something.
  • myla · 1 year ago
    My take on things... google is being unfair.

    I hope that blog advertising sites implement another method of ranking and i hope avertisers will consider some form of measures other than Google Page Rank for their campaigns.
  • Karoli · 1 year ago
    I was out of town when you wrote this and am just now catching up.

    Can you imagine the outcry if Microsoft had done this? Or look at the rebellion over on Facebook? Why should Google be allowed to essentially prohibit people from making money, even if it doesn't meet with the approval of some? If the issue is passing page rank, why isn't that a penalty applied evenly to all?
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    All good questions, Karoli. I wish I knew the answers.
  • Cory · 1 year ago
    This is an old article but I thought I'd still comment....

    How can PPP be penalized when all the big guys do this and get away with it??

    Take a look at webmd's site for example. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and right above the bottom search form you'll see "Health Solutions" in big letters and "from our sponsors" in small.

    Click on a couple of those links and you tell me if the average user would be able to understand that the article has been paid for and is one big advertisement.

    Everyday, I believe more and more the view that "Google is just 'defending their monopolistic stranglehold on search and online advertising,'"
  • Taylor · 1 year ago
    I had used PayPerPost on my Page Rank 1 site and only a week later did I lose my page rank altogether. I think this had to do with the flooding amount of paid posts that I was posting. That's when Google just said, "SPAM!" Not to mention, that site had no set niche and barely any back links so my page rank was probably a fluke anyway.

    With that being said, I have another website with a page rank of 2 and I am going to see if Pay Per Post will kill my Page Rank on that also. If it does, I will likely quit the program altogether.

    Trial and Error my friends. Trial and Error.