Comments on: Google Can Afford A Clue; Instead They Want Informers?

By: Article Submission

Article Submission — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:16:09 +0000

Why would you ever report a good place to buy links? Getting back links is 80% of today's seo game. Thanks you Jeffery for all your hard work. We look froward to having you on Webmaster Radio again

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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:55:49 +0000

[...] Google Can Afford A Clue; Instead They Want Informers? … form of advertising, and no … I don’t buy links or sell links on my websites, but … Google penalize sites that sell paid links while at the same time encouraging them to place AdSense on their websites http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/04/16/google-can-afford-a-clue-instead-they-want-informers/ [...]

By: Smufty

Smufty — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:00:27 +0000

I’d have thought if the system relies heavily on links then you’re going to need a LOT of links to make a real difference – and it would be cheaper to buy an adwords advert?

Of course advertising with adwords is a black art in itself and not cost effective for many sites, mine included.

By: Andrew Goodman

Andrew Goodman — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:23:54 +0000

In one of my enthusiastic but brief flashes of participation in the SEO world, at an SES 4+ years ago, I stood up and asked the Google panelist how they could make a distinction between “just links” and links that were covertly paid for. (To me, that spelled a big hole in the premise that PageRank measured pure reputation.)

The Googler didn’t respond to my question, but did give me a speech about “what I need to do is to focus on x, y, and z for my site,” even though I really was raising it as a fundamental issue of concern, nothing to do with “my site.”

It was then that I learned that large search companies are prone to dodging fundamental issues of concern when it comes to organic spam tactics. Here we are in 2007 – 2007, Jeff! – and Google still seems to have this gaping hole in its algo.

By: Jeffrey Eisenberg

Jeffrey Eisenberg — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:21:43 +0000

Julie, You make good points. These are the questions others are asking.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:59:12 +0000

I don’t buy links or sell links on my websites, but I have a few problems with this:

1) Competitors can EASILY manipulate this system.

2) This is a Google double standard. How can Google penalize sites that sell paid links while at the same time encouraging them to place AdSense on their websites? Does Google want to be the only company that benefits from a popular website’s link love?