Comments on: How to Profit from Google’s War on Paid Links

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:07:33 +0000

@ Jason, I don’t see how it would cancel out a lot of advertisers interested in PR. The entire point of this article was to discuss ways to go about selling links that continue to pass Page Rank.

Also, your comment seems to suggest that there are only two types of traffic and that’s simply not the case. Not only is social media traffic far from “worthless”, but there are plenty of other sources for traffic. If you depend solely on Google for your traffic you are just asking for trouble.

By: Buy Undetectable Links

Buy Undetectable Links — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:55:25 +0000

I’m one of those guys who has developed a secure system for buying and selling links. Your views are right on.

I’m amazed that no one created a system for this a year and half ago.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:48:30 +0000

The only problem with this strategy is you’ll cancel out a lot of advertisers who want their PRs raised.

They may come to your site and think all the traffic you’re getting is social media (that it’s pretty much worthless).

That will probably be the case if Google punishes you for selling links. Not much search engine traffic.

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By: Kenneth@Bloggers-Journey.com

Kenneth@Bloggers-Journey.com — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:30:57 +0000

google and text links issue was a pain for most blogger

By: Neil Duckett

Neil Duckett — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:28:28 +0000

Goog article Ben, well written and very informative.

By: Ognjen

Ognjen — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:18:42 +0000

No!

Thank you for spending some time to discuss with me.

I’m still learning and this means very much to me.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:36:01 +0000

Ahh, I’m with you now. A couple of points to address here. Certainly every blogger should take their own approach and do what they think is right for their site/blog. However, Google’s AdSense team and their Search team usually act as two separate entities. For example, John Chow got beatten down by Google in their rankings. He doesn’t even rank for his own name anymore. However, they didn’t ban him from AdSense. While he’s obviously a large blogger, I don’t think Google would ban anyone for selling links on their site. What gets people banned is click fraud (whether real or perceived).

Also, in terms of ads on a young blog, I think link sales is actually one of the least obtrusive monetization methods and could be done from very early on. However, in the end, as I said, everyone has to go with what they think will work best for their site or blog.

Good comment Ognjen, thanks for the feedback!

By: Ognjen

Ognjen — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:27:18 +0000

I don’t think that startup bloggers, like I am, whose blogs are just being developed, should play with those things, until they become large enough to see if its good for them or not. I think, thus very small, there is risk involved to loose your google account. Even your [ben's] blog gets more money from other sources, for some bloggers, Google AdSense might become major source of income, and in that case, lost of AdSense account would be a lost of money for them. My point is that it’s maybe too early for startup bloggers to concern these kinds of things, and any income they could might get or loose with this is negligible.