Comments on: Google on Buying Paid Links http://www.seoish.com/google-on-buying-paid-links/ Widget strategy, Google Gadgets, iGoogle, and the shifting sands of SEO. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:33:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pat http://www.seoish.com/google-on-buying-paid-links/comment-page-1/#comment-1098 pat Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:23:42 +0000 http://www.seoish.com/google-on-buying-paid-links/#comment-1098 Hi Matt, thanks for your response. I am glad you commented, I was starting to think "Is it just me, or is everybody concentrating on the wrong thing here?" That session at SES was very entertaining and alot of people I personally admire said some funny and clever things, but from a practical stand point, Matt Cutts of Google was the person who put out the most. Hi Matt, thanks for your response. I am glad you commented, I was starting to think “Is it just me, or is everybody concentrating on the wrong thing here?” That session at SES was very entertaining and alot of people I personally admire said some funny and clever things, but from a practical stand point, Matt Cutts of Google was the person who put out the most.

]]> By: Matt http://www.seoish.com/google-on-buying-paid-links/comment-page-1/#comment-1097 Matt Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:28:26 +0000 http://www.seoish.com/google-on-buying-paid-links/#comment-1097 It's nice to see someone explain this clearly. I've been saying for a month that this is what Google was getting at with it's paid links campaign - it's OK for advertising, but not to increase your page rank. The Webmaster forums are full of fear mongers and anti-Google zealots screaming about how this move is removing their livelihood, etc. There's no explaining to them what Google means, and - more importantly - how this step will improve the search results. There really is nothing more annoying than doing a search and getting a page full of spam sites, that are only there because they have access to giant link farms, or the capital to buy the right links. I really do wonder how this will impact Directories like Yahoo! and Aviva (not to mention the smaller ones). It’s nice to see someone explain this clearly. I’ve been saying for a month that this is what Google was getting at with it’s paid links campaign – it’s OK for advertising, but not to increase your page rank. The Webmaster forums are full of fear mongers and anti-Google zealots screaming about how this move is removing their livelihood, etc.

There’s no explaining to them what Google means, and – more importantly – how this step will improve the search results. There really is nothing more annoying than doing a search and getting a page full of spam sites, that are only there because they have access to giant link farms, or the capital to buy the right links.

I really do wonder how this will impact Directories like Yahoo! and Aviva (not to mention the smaller ones).

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