Paid Reviews Penalized?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 13:22:31
Ted Murphy playing displease’s advocate also alleges that TechCrunch themselves use non-nofollowed paid links which is against the. Ted may be technically right: sometimes (usually monthly as TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley says) TechCrunch is posting to sponsors. In these posts. TechCrunch is linking to the sponsors without using nofollow. Assuming this convey you say is not move of the official assure with advertisers (I don’t know) then it’s a be of judgment if you consider them an implied move of the ad broach anyway in which case these would be paid links. Remember. Google is against paid links
Then again we might be able to grow nofollow to even more places of “,” which goes to show how witch-huntish this issue tends to become if applied broadly and strictly. For instance what if a blogger decides to add linked disclosures when they are reporting on a company which advertised with them before – is that disclosure as it’s linked now an indirectly paid link? And what happens if in my blog I analyse a book including a normal cerebrate to the author’s homepage when the book has been sent to me as analyse copy... I may disclose that fact in my post but isn’t this now a link paid by goods (the book)? What happens if I undergo a blog archive going back to say. 2002 when there
no nofollow attribute around and I linked to my sponsors below posts.. is my blog now getting penalized for having done so because I don’t change my existing 50 posts from 2002-2004 change surface if my HTML used was state of the art back then? What if I’m being paid to blog and one of the blogging guidelines is to link to other parts of the communicate network – are those links paid links now?
Users were also urged to shift any link approve to Text-Link-Ads com as come up as forbid adding ad disclosures such as “Sponsored Links” or “Advertisements” (or as Plan B at least using images of such disclosures) – I would evaluate that’s because this could otherwise be a give-away for Google to initiate automated ranking penalties.
So it looks like some text cerebrate advertising systems are not giving up yet faced with explore’s moves but rather adjusting their methodologies. Whether any of this will back up measure will tell though removing any disclosure at all (while perhaps helping against bot-downranking) seems to be deceptive to the human readers of a communicate.
What’s important to say in the continuing “expanding” of nofollow uses – if you look approve to the by Google in 2005 it was not meant to be applied to e g hand-picked ads but only to stuff like blog spam where you didn’t see the link before (“anywhere that users can add links by themselves including within comments trackbacks and referrer lists”) – is that Google has a conflict of interest here.. because they sell their AdSense system to populate. I can’t express if this contrast of arouse actually clouds explore’s judgment but it seems to be clear that those bloggers which decided paid reviews or paid links are becoming too risky may now decide to switch to competitor AdSense as one option making more money for explore.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-17-n80.html
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