Then file for a Google reconsideration within Webmaster tools

Do you know if this is still going on? I have signed up for Social Spark and Payperpost before I found out about this…
My google rank is 0. is that because I have to many affiliate ads on my page?

Thanks!

And that really annoys me. You see, I come from a newspaper background, and to me, the absence of advertising strongly implies the lack of any influence. I’m nowhere near the print-media ideal of 60% – which I think excessive, frankly. But I do think of relevant, screened advertising as being an enhancement.

As for paid posts – well, frankly, I think it a lot more honest to do a paid post than it is to belong to something like “Pajamas Media.” Either way, one is paid. But in order to succeed as a “postie” (for whatever service) you really do ultimately have to tell the truth.

More importantly, in order to stand out from the crowd of crap traffic producers, you have to come up with something new. For instance, when I “shilled” for LED xmas lighting, it occured to me that red led christmas lights were as good or probably better than whatever the military provided the Marines for bunker lighting, and would not strain power sources or screw with night vision.

So I suggested that Army Moms and Dads throw a string or six into a care package – and even took the extra step of looking for tiny generators that could live in a dufflebag thrown into the back of a humvee.

SEO and such makes my eyes roll, to be honest. I’ve never paid a whole lot of attention to it. Frankly, I realized early on that I had a choice – I could right good posts – or I could do kinda crappy posts that sucked in engines.

I’m a Blogger, Jim, not an SEO guy.

I’d just as soon that you guys did what you do, just like I do, and the engines paid attention to that, but I’d also like them to remember that most of us do not care about gaming the system, so long as the system works.

And if it stops working, we are simply going to find another system, ‘because we really are not all that invested in ANY search engine. Not even Google.

When will the governement start to take a bigger stand on this… When google controls 60-70% of the search world they control a lot of power.

They shouldnt be able to control what an individual site does… you would also think they would have held off this paid link stuff til after the doubleclick deal went through… so they would clearly lock up the advertisng world…

I have removed every sponsored spot, and all links and code I can find to PPP. I want my PR back, and I realize my punishment for blogging for pay might be permanant – in which case, I’ll have to start all over again with a new URL.

My opinion of Google has certainly changed, though. I’ll play the game … but I’m no longer a fan. I guess “don’t be evil” is a thing of the past.