Some days ago I was wondering what the influence of Matt Cutt’s comment could be. Today there finally is clarity. And it is not nice.
the strategy of participating in link schemes might have previously paid off. But more recently, Google has tremendously refined its link-weighting algorithms. We have more people working on Google’s link-weighting for quality control and to correct issues we find. So nowadays, undermining the PageRank algorithm is likely to result in the loss of the ability of link-selling sites to pass on reputation via links to other sites.
Source : Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.
What does this mean? A huge part of the text link advertising sector online will crash. And many bloggers will lose a certain income.
Thanks Google, can I sue you now for lost income?
I understand the reason behind this, but you [Google]1 just broke an active and healthy economy. Thank you for bursting Bubble 2.0.
1 No link love for you anymore. :P
2 have made me smarter ↓
1 Avitable // Dec 19, 2006 at 2:45 pm// View all comments by Avitable//
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Good. I work hard to have legitimate content and legitimate links from reputable sources going to my website, and this type of actual, honest SEO should be rewarded with higher pagerank.
2 Franky // Dec 23, 2006 at 3:52 pm// View all comments by Franky//
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Avi, read Copyblogger to find good tricks on linkbaiting. Brian has written very interesting stuff for online writing.
And improve your SEO. :P
(I will write some SEO tricks here in a soon future)