Comments on: A pragmatic defence against Google’s anti paid links campaign

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:29:52 +0000

Nope Magic, that’s not deceitful cloaking, hence not penalized by Google.

By: Magic

Magic — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:01:10 +0000

This is an brilliant article, and very clever. The set back though is that google could consider this like an invisible link (as this technique is showing the googlebot different content to that of the user). If they find out, the webmaster using this technique could be penalised.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:45:37 +0000

Context is a ranking factor as well as anchor text. Google’s algo is a sly old dog.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:10:06 +0000

Sebastian,

I do not understand exactly how you do it but here is what happened.

I searched [dog comment “rel=nofollow”] on google and this page appears first. However there is no “dog” in this page. The only place I found this word is in the Referrer URL on this page.

I still wonder how this page showed up first in Google search… but I’ll add your site to my links in the next few hours.

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By: 5ubliminal

5ubliminal — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:44:35 +0000

Such a fuss over virtually nothing. Any link resulting over a financial transaction should not pass any link juice and Google is entitled to nuke the hell of those who offer paid reviews.
Wtf is a paid review? Before I got to know the blogging community I had no idea of such thing. Paid reviews can’t be honest.
Any review which does not involve money can be considered sincere but any paid review has doubt written all over it.
If I pay you and you say cr4p about my product I send the big boyz for you. It’s the way it works. One ain’t gonna ruin my product’s reputation paid by myself.

So one of the few things I agree with Google upon is the retirement of link-PIMPs. Remove the green pixels from their toolbars and let them keep selling links.

PS: No follow the link on my comment

[Dunno why, but here’s your nofollow.]

By: The day the routers died

The day the routers died — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:32:57 +0000

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Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:40:01 +0000

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By: Google Toolbar PageRank deductions make sense

Google Toolbar PageRank deductions make sense — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:49:25 +0000

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