Comments on: Why Google Shouldn’t Penalize Us for Their Incompetence

By: dex

dex — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:39:40 +0000

Yet aren`t Yahoo doing the same thing by asking $299 per year for a site to be checked out and if okd be listed in their Directory? Can`t see Google penalising Yahoo though.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:44:08 +0000

Google has gone overboard with their discrimination against paid text links. Text links aren`t just used for PR purposes, they can in fact also help drive traffic to another site.

By: supaswag

supaswag — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:43:41 +0000

one of the outcomes of this wide spread panic is that bullied and baffled webmasters now start to put no-follow tags on their text-link-ad listings. If you complain about it, they mostly don’t really know what you are talking about but tell you that they “heard” that they will get penalized otherwise. Ironically most of them have their text link adverts still in a box titled “Paid Links” with the big fat text-link-ads banner next to it. Very clever..

and by the way, why don’t your friends at 888.com get penalized, as they buy [I suppose] A LOT of links?

By: Webdesign microdesign

Webdesign microdesign — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:47:33 +0000

truely a good piece of article :) nice written!

By: Digitaal magazine

Digitaal magazine — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:12:31 +0000

Again a great post, actually i think penalty’s are nasty but needed.. i cant figgure out if i got penaltys or not!

By: Carsten Cumbrowski

Carsten Cumbrowski — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:55:02 +0000

Quote Rae: “Carsten – for the record, I wasnâ€™t implying there was anything wrong with paid links. But the fact is the ones under my bona fides are NOT paid links, even though they look like typical paid links and Google has no way to know the difference. I was only trying to get that out there. :-)”

Hey Rae,

See! This is the whole point of the discussion and why Google is terribly wrong by even considering what Matt published at his blog.

quod erat demonstrandum ;)

By: People Finder

People Finder — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:49:16 +0000

I agree with the Salem Witch Hunt comment. It seems like the internet is becoming one big elementary school playground, where any jealous competitor of yours with a chip on their shoulder can run to a playground attendant and cry “unfair” or “foul”.

If people would just focus on their own projects, they would be a lot better off than running around worrying about what sites you link to. The net is becoming one big hangout for petty tattletales.

By: Rae

Rae — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:16:38 +0000

Carsten – for the record, I wasn’t implying there was anything wrong with paid links. But the fact is the ones under my bona fides are NOT paid links, even though they look like typical paid links and Google has no way to know the difference. I was only trying to get that out there. :-)

By: Carsten Cumbrowski

Carsten Cumbrowski — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:25:27 +0000

Brian
-> “outside of the occassional goldschloggers shot or late-night lap dance ;-) ”

hehe some people work for feed, gadgets, treats or BOTW T-Shirts .. so if we look at this very very conservative then…;)

p.s. I am an affiliate of yours, but would have linked to you if you wouldn’t have an affiliate program too. But you have one, so do have a large number of paid services. Not joining them and not making any money to pay for the time and effort is like you not charging for the site review, tweaking of the listing and addition to the BOTW directory.

Who needs money anyway, my landlord would probably let me stay for free, if I tell him that don’t have a dime, because I refuse to accept any financial reward for my work, Trekkie style.

I love star trek, but last time I checked, was the show still categorized under science fiction :).

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:04:51 +0000

Thanks for the shout-out Rae. As a member of the executive management team at Best of the Web, I can attest firsthand that Rae is not a reseller, affiliate nor any other paid affiliation with BOTW outside of the occassional goldschloggers shot or late-night lap dance ;-) Let it be heard that some links are truly endorsements of quality and enjoyment of content and nothing further – not every act is an act of selfishness and not every person is evil, as much as we like to think the such….