Tag Archives: socialspark

Wrong Reaction From Techcrunch On Paid Links?

By Andy Beard | Published: November 17, 2007

I think this is one possibly for the water cooler on Sphinn, because I find it comical in a sad kind of way.

Ted Murphy rightly questions Google quite openly to explain why PPP bloggers are being punished for not using nofollow on links, yet many prominent bloggers post quite blatant pagerank passing links to their advertisers every chance they get.

Not only do they mention their advertisers in "Thanks To Our Advertisers" posts, but they also name drop them every chance they get as a form of disclosure.

As an example, almost every time PayPerPost was discussed, either Text Link Ads

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ZeroRank – More PageRank Carnage (Round 5)

By Andy Beard | Published: November 15, 2007

I have been receiving emails and comments today about yet another PageRank downturn for multiple sites.

Andrew Ooi has compiled a short list of Malaysian sites, many were previously as much as a PR5 previously, and currently show a PageRank of zero (a white bar)

Examples include:-

Colleen's Simple Kind of Life and 5xmom

The numbers seem to be stable across multiple data centers

There doesn't seen to be any change in prominent Search Marketing sites such as Search Engine Round Table and Search Engine Journal, and other popular bloggers such as Emom and Yaro still seem to

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Will Google Offer Amnesty To SocialSpark & PayPerPost Bloggers?

By Andy Beard | Published: November 12, 2007

Since the first real information came out about Izea's (PayPerPost) new SocialSpark service, that is in testing but will formerly launch in January my excitement has been a little tempered.

As I wrote in my initial preview of SocialSpark, there will be new metrics for gauging the authority and influence of a blog, to help determine advertising spend, not only based upon traffic and demographics, but also on past performance with CPM and CPC data also being made available.

With SocialSpark, any required links will be nofollow, though there is an option for editorial links without a nofollow.

All the negotiation about

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SocialSpark.com Preview – PayPerPost Goes Googley?

By Andy Beard | Published: November 11, 2007

I have been listening to PostieCon via Ustream and chatting in the Meebo chatroom, and at the same time exchanging a few emails with Ted Murphey about Izea’s (new parent company of PayPerPost) new Advertising marketplace, SocialSpark.com

Social Spark

What Is Social Spark?

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