Matt Cutts and the paid links

[pixads]

Check this recent post on Matt's blog

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/

" That will be enough for Google to start testing out some new techniques we’ve got "

And let the webmasters wars begin.

[djrishi]

yeap nothing new.

[gogiants]

does it mean google need to hire more hands

[Thibaut]

Originally Posted by gogiants

does it mean google need to hire more hands

Yep, thats the only way, as I don't see any way to do it automatically unless having an AI bot

Cheers !
Thibaut

[CountryBoy]

A clamp down on paid links - I dread to think what this will mean for PayPerPost, ReviewMe, Sponsored Reviews et al. The future looks gloomy.

[trichnosis]

this has been discussed before . i agree with you . this will start another war

[gogiants]

wondering is not AdWords a kind of pay link form?

What does Mutt mean ((( pay links ))) actually

[Luke Beale]

Originally Posted by trichnosis

this has been discussed before . i agree with you . this will start another war

Well wars can bring progress

[CountryBoy]

No, AdSense ads are delivered by JavaScript, so not links in the Google sense of the word.

Originally Posted by gogiants

wondering is not AdWords a kind of pay link form?

What does Mutt mean ((( pay links ))) actually

[patrickberry]

i read the original post with interest and all the follow up comments ...

i believe all that that google is after is a wider set of sites to test there new algo techniques of spotting link selling sites....

[Rohit patel]

Yeah Ads came out in JavaScript.

What types of war start?

[grg]

People should start to submit all paid links like adwords and the other big companies... After a while of thinking I think this is just dumb (to not use a more offensive word).

[sterlingpixel]

Hopefully google will take notice of the comments on Matts blog, its stupid that they can count paid likes as spam when they make all there money from advertising themselfs!!!

I have a site that I sell text link adds on, ok it only makes $30 a month from them but this pays my monthly hosting costs for all of my sites!!!

Google are getting stupid and starting to become the next M$ by tightening there grip on everything internet advertising related.

[pixads]

Originally Posted by gogiants

wondering is not AdWords a kind of pay link form?

What does Mutt mean ((( pay links ))) actually

He is writing about the paid links that send some PR
The paid traffic links should be marked as such by some of the methods he outlined in another post :

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/hidden-links
" If you want to sell a link, you should at least provide machine-readable disclosure for paid links by making your link in a way that doesn’t affect search engines. There’s a ton of ways to do that. For example, you could make a paid link go through a redirect where the redirect url is robot’ed out using robots.txt. You could also use the rel=nofollow attribute."

Originally Posted by patrickberry

i read the original post with interest and all the follow up comments ...

i believe all that that google is after is a wider set of sites to test there new algo techniques of spotting link selling sites....

Test now implement later. either way this will come

[CountryBoy]

The whole point of small-scale advertisers buying links is to try and boost their PR/SERPs - using rel=nofollow kind of defeats the object. Paid links will become almost worthless unless they are on a high traffic site.

[jhnrang]

Just coming back from making a long post there. I told Matt that I buy links --what can he do to it. If interested read comment #145

[Mong]

Google is trying to conquer breath of webmasters.

Mr. Google your Adsense actually shows ads on very devalued price. :|

[it career]

Looks like Google's search algorithm has failed badly, now they want people to change billions lines of html codes so that their algortihm performs better.
Think of how your oppostion can knock you off by reporting paid links for every link that you have got in your websites.

[Hopper]

So call me stupid - but why doesn't 'G' just remove all PR?

[bluesaga]

Because PR is what makes the world go around, think about it without PR we would just be basing results on, on page keywords. And thus the results would just be a spam fest.....