Comments on: Google’s War on Links and How it Hurts Single Moms

By: Publishers Weblog

Publishers Weblog — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:51:29 +0000

Its a war on everybody! Not just link brokers but link sellers and link buyers!

By: Jack Payne

Jack Payne — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:47:23 +0000

If there is any war, I think it’s on link sellers. Google seems to hate that.

My experience has been that solo backlinks are still king.

The internet is loaded with con men. I write extensively on these people, and can kind of see Google’s point of view. A ittle paranoia here. I guess even giant corporations can have this affliction.

By: MoreMerchant

MoreMerchant — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:20:08 +0000

I think they are getting it wrong. Useless links are no good but don’t attack the small business person like myself.

By: Embassy Suites

Embassy Suites — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:39:03 +0000

they cant fight web spam and tries stuff like this, I really wonder what effect will this have on making search results better.
people have built quality sites and they will decide whether to sell links on them or not, why dropping them from results? does selling a link mean my content is crap? if it was people would not buy links from me,
Dumb Google!

By: MoreMerchant

MoreMerchant — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:19:17 +0000

Exactly my point. Google should be embarrassed. Go after web spam, not valid websites who are making money just as Google does.

This is the same thing that tv stations do. They are paid, why shouldn’t we get paid?

By: Lynne

Lynne — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:10:50 +0000

I agree with you. It’s not just the single moms either. I am a mom trying to be a stay at home mom so that I can be more involved by doing volunteer work. I gave up a full time job and use paid posts as my replacement income. Before I signed up for paid posting I put adsense on my site. In one month’s time I earned 11 cents. I’d have to say I am not the only one that can’t do much with 11 cents!
I think it is a conflict of interest that Google is punishing sites who do advertising for other companies other than Google by reducing their page ranks.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:06:17 +0000

I think that this is terrible actually. People should have their own choice as to what they link to on their sites. Text links provide great income for some sites, and while I haven’t had that opportunity yet, I would like to try.

Google should not be doing this.

By: jesie

jesie — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:26:17 +0000

I have faved you.

By: insurance agent

insurance agent — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:47:37 +0000

People will always find ways to make money off or exploit google in a way google does not like. Google will go after them and then people will come up with new ways to exploit google, not necessarily for good or bad.

I do get your point of how google should be going after the spam sites and definitely agree with them.