Comments on: Why Google Hates Paid Reviews

By: Kay Kastum

Kay Kastum — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:31:34 +0000

Paid post community need not worry much. Paid posting companies are already coming up with their own ‘Page Rank’ I think.

By: Gaman

Gaman — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:25:34 +0000

Sorry I think you are missing the point. It’s not just a matter of opinion, it’s a way for people to make money regardless of whether the opinion is of good quality or not. Often reviews are written for a quick buck.

But it’s not only the reviews, it’s how the paid links could potential distort the democratic nature of search engine ranking.

BTW I’m the one who wrote this not Matt

“Gone were the days where the Internet was a level playing field, at least as far as SEO is concern.”

That’s the situation I imagine will happen when Google allows selling and buying paid links to continue.

By: cashmarble.com

cashmarble.com — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:03:57 +0000

Gaman,

Google just can’t accept Competition. One of my blog is doing fine thou i post like 30 paid posting a week but i still maintain the blog PR.

By: helen

helen — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:30:07 +0000

Nope I don’t agree with what Mr Cutts is saying.

Quote: “Gone were the days where the Internet was a level playing field, at least as far as SEO is concern.”

With the intervention of Search Engine that profess to do more than it should, there is no level playing field for the little guys.

Bearing in mind reviews are merely the opinion of the individual blogger (yes, even paid ones), I see the hypocrisy there. Meaning what? If you’re not somebody (no PHD, MBA Doctor), you can’t give a decent review? I believe it is the readers’ responsibility to discern how much they ought to trust the source. Anyway, if anyone care to read through the cited examples of ‘unreliable’ blogs on Mr Cutts’ post, you will see nobody claimed to be an authoritive medical figure. Those bloggers were merely talking from a layman’s perspective. I don’t think they deserve to be called irresponsible.

By: pinolobu

pinolobu — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:03:49 +0000

5xmom said it is, and that higher PR means higher traffic.

Hence she removed all paid posts / tla from her 2 main blogs.

By: pinolobu

pinolobu — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:02:00 +0000

Is Google slapping only PayPerPost bloggers with automatic PR demotion to zero, or are all paid posters are affected?

Do you know of any other blog doing ReviewMe that got demoted to PR0?

If Google is consistent in “even ONE paid post from ANY company (PPP, Smorty, blogitive, linkworth, blogsvertise, reviewme, sponsoredreviews etc) will result in immediate and automatic demotion to PR0, even if you currently at PR10″, ReviewMe, which made John Chow UDS4,400 in November, should cause him to get PR0.

In addition, he is also doing text link ads, which netted him more than USD2K in Nov.

By: pablopabla

pablopabla — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:22:43 +0000

Gaman, you mean your comment which appeared above was deleted at Matt Cutt’s blog? I think you raised very important questions which Matt or Google was unable to answer and hence, deleting your comment was the best option. Either that or the system thought you were a nasty spammer

By: Gaman

Gaman — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:47:11 +0000

I guess this post is more about paid posts than page rank.

By: Gaman

Gaman — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:42:10 +0000

I am sure someone from Google knows JohnChow.com (the guy who removes John Chow from Google front page) but probably he’s not as famous as he thinks he is LOL. Yea I noticed several other comments besides mine were deleted today.

By: Azmeen

Azmeen — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:52:08 +0000

I think Matt doesn’t really John Chow (not surprising), your post was deleted/moderated