Comments on: Buying Links from Anonymous Publishers : Poyfickly Leegull http://www.johnon.com/319/buying-links.html I think there's an opinion on that subject lying around here somewhere.... Mon, 20 May 2013 17:17:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: » UpperLeftPlacement.com and Snarky SEO Blogs - John Andrews - johnon.com http://www.johnon.com/319/buying-links.html#comment-55431 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:53:58 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/319/buying-links.html#comment-55431 [...] Buying Links: Poyfickly Leegull [...] […] Buying Links: Poyfickly Leegull […]

]]> by: Elliott http://www.johnon.com/319/buying-links.html#comment-39067 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:37:42 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/319/buying-links.html#comment-39067 Well, if you think about it, we did give Google the power they now have, so part of the blame can be put on us Well, if you think about it, we did give Google the power they now have, so part of the blame can be put on us

]]> by: Offsite Admin http://www.johnon.com/319/buying-links.html#comment-33153 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:32:27 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/319/buying-links.html#comment-33153 What Google is doing now reminds me of what they did to SearchKing and Bob Massa a few years back. Massa was the first to come up with the idea to sell ads based on PageRank and the G-men tried to crucify him for it. A lot of SEOs jumped on the G-bandwagon and raked him over the coals. Now it seems everyone is basing their ad rates on a site's PR. And now they want webmasters to rat on each other for selling links, when Google's only interest is their own pocketbook. Time for everyone to wake up and smell the coffee. If you don't have the time to track down all you own links, the trick is to find a network offering affordable links that has a good inventory of sites. And they are out there. BYW, I hear Massa's still going strong. There's a lesson for us all. What Google is doing now reminds me of what they did to SearchKing and Bob Massa a few years back.

Massa was the first to come up with the idea to sell ads based on PageRank and the G-men tried to crucify him for it. A lot of SEOs jumped on the G-bandwagon and raked him over the coals. Now it seems everyone is basing their ad rates on a site’s PR.

And now they want webmasters to rat on each other for selling links, when Google’s only interest is their own pocketbook. Time for everyone to wake up and smell the coffee.

If you don’t have the time to track down all you own links, the trick is to find a network offering affordable links that has a good inventory of sites. And they are out there.

BYW, I hear Massa’s still going strong. There’s a lesson for us all.

]]> by: Business Blogger http://www.johnon.com/319/buying-links.html#comment-30266 Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:48:54 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/319/buying-links.html#comment-30266 You remember the old drug commercials: "I learned it by watching you dad, I learned it by watching you." Google wants to be everyone's daddy but doesn't want to have to follow the rules. You remember the old drug commercials: “I learned it by watching you dad, I learned it by watching you.” Google wants to be everyone’s daddy but doesn’t want to have to follow the rules.

]]> by: Scott Hendison http://www.johnon.com/319/buying-links.html#comment-29411 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:45:39 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/319/buying-links.html#comment-29411 Seriously, it almost seems as if Google is concerned about its own potential loss of revenue in it's attempt to get people to "report paid linking" more so than they are concerned about the quality of the search results. If that much relevance is being placed on inbound links, then of course it's a system that's going to get abused, and to think otherwise was very shortsighted. Might we be forced to return to looking harder at (gasp!) the quality of the content as a way to rank a page well? Seriously, it almost seems as if Google is concerned about its own potential loss of revenue in it’s attempt to get people to “report paid linking” more so than they are concerned about the quality of the search results.

If that much relevance is being placed on inbound links, then of course it’s a system that’s going to get abused, and to think otherwise was very shortsighted.

Might we be forced to return to looking harder at (gasp!) the quality of the content as a way to rank a page well?

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