Comments on: Google’s Page Rank Update Increases Profitability of Selling Text Links

By: Server

Server — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:30:06 +0000

Either nothing has happened, or mine pr has not improved.

@ Lingeriezone a nice blog :-)

By: Lingeriezone

Lingeriezone — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:19:28 +0000

anybody knows when google will update page rank? what what is the actual time google takes an update of websites?

I asum ill have pr 2 of my blog

http://www.lingeriezone.blogspot.com

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:08:09 +0000

As a relatively new blogger, I have 3 questions about selling text ads:

1. Do people just get a one-time fee, or a monthly fee for selling a text ad? I would assume that latter would be better.
2. Are the text ads to be posted indefinitely, or should there be some deal worked out in terms of duration?
3. How much should a site expect to earn from a text ad (per 100 unique visitors)?

By: Alex Choo

Alex Choo — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:17:38 +0000

If you use a tool like WP Text Ads on the WordPress platform, your links would include the ‘nofollow’ tag and Google will not penalise your site.

By: Earl

Earl — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:01:55 +0000

Big G is not really against the selling of links that are very relevant to your site, I’m in the Myspace game and I have notice that some Myspace sites that use to be PR5 drop to PR3 this was on the first recent update then 2 weeks later drop again to PR0 why? they had non relevant links to loans, credit cards and other finance links in the footer, got to admit though Big G their giving bloggers a hard time.
It must be all that revenue you guys are taking away from them!

By: The Mommy Blogger

The Mommy Blogger — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:21:29 +0000

My site went down because of the TLA I was so bummed! And this just happened last weekend!

By: Nick - road2graduation

Nick - road2graduation — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:13:20 +0000

Darren,

Why have some blogs become high rankers? I’ve been looking at a few blogs in the student market and some that have been blogging for 6 months or less have become a page rank 4! I think that’s crazy, what are your views, could there be another ‘tweak’ over the next month or so?

By: mcangeli

mcangeli — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:23:07 +0000

I’m not convinced that a drop in PR is bad for anyone. There’s been talk for a while about the actual “worth” of google PR. People are beginning to look at different methods for actually ranking a site and I think that actual traffic and click thru rates will be more of a deciding factor in the long run than PR, alexa or anything else.

If you want to sell links on your sites, sell links. This move by google was nothing more than a calculated bid to get more users on their adsense system. Of course, once you’re on adsense, be careful, any slight misstep and your time spent advertising will be wasted when they ban you before you get your first check.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:06:02 +0000

Fiasco is way to strong. I think minor kerfuffle is more appropriate.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:13:04 +0000

It’s a pity that the value of our website Ad space is valued mostly by PR of the page.

By: Teejay

Teejay — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:22:37 +0000

The law of demand and supply is definitely at work. I am thinking of higher prices and much more hidden ways to sell links.

By: Thilo

Thilo — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:02:30 +0000

That is interresting, I didn’t came up with the idea but it is trough, now there are less offers but still a lot want to buy text links. 1,500$ extra isn’t bad :) I hope I could do the same.

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:38:33 +0000

I was contacted today by a persistent ad buyer. Boy, was I tempted to say ‘Screw Google!’ and take the cash!

Sadly, I hit delete instead. :’(

By: Shaun Carter

Shaun Carter — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:22:03 +0000

This person will be laughing to the bank only until Google finally catches up with him or her and slaps them with the same penalty most others are getting. Then their income will dwindle significantly.

By: Elisa

Elisa — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:46:13 +0000

Pleased to hear someone is making cash.

But the page rank change isn’t going to fix the fact that –
overall, blogging is becoming a less profitable playing field.

By: jai

jai — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:13:19 +0000

It has also led to an increase in offers of paragraphs with paid links. 3 of my friends got similar offers, but the dropping PR is a big deterrant.

By: Richard Burckhardt

Richard Burckhardt — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:56:21 +0000

Very interesting. My blog dropped to a PR3 (no rankings loss, just a drop in PR), I assume because I had a “Sponsor a blog post” link where I offered other SEOs the opportunity to post for free with a link back to them. The plugin I used to automate this included paid options for more links and longer posts, which I couldn’t disable. Guess I shouldn’t have used the plugin at all and I got slapped for it. I never sold a single link nor did I take any money while this offer was up, though.

Your post puts a new spin on selling text links, though. ;-)

By: karyn

karyn — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:13:34 +0000

I’d like to know if anyone who’s site lost PR in the update also noticed a drop in the SERPs. My site went from a PR2 to a PR1, and for the first few days held steady in the rankings. But today I can’t find it anywhere. I’m wondering if it’s related to the PR drop/text link selling, or if it’s something else.

By: jhay

jhay — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:28:43 +0000

I take this as another proof or justification of the notion that PR is no longer that relevant these days.

Now that this phenomenon is taking place, I’m having second thoughts on whether to really stop selling links and worship Google blindly or take the road once most travelled.

By: MindBlogger

MindBlogger — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:52:30 +0000

I suppose eliminating the middle man can give your earnings an instant boost.. yes! It’s a simple balance between the supply and the demand I guess…

Oh and making a correction – demand increases by day – i don’t think it stays steady:)