Comments on: Does Google hate PayPerPost?

By: Taylor

Taylor — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:31:23 +0000

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.

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:25:32 +0000

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,'”

By: mathewi

mathewi — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:10:01 +0000

All good questions, Karoli. I wish I knew the answers.

By: Karoli

Karoli — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:39:04 +0000

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?

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