New Post from Matt Cutts on on Paid Links/Blog Posts..........

Read the full thing here

It may provide a lot of answers to what is happening just now.................

 

thanks for the link.

google continues to work

 

I think there are many clues - but you have to read it carefully

 

It's also posted on webmaster central blog.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/information-about-buying-and-selling.html

Thanks for posting.

 

Thanks for that link too - there is a whole bunch of info across these 2 links!

 

Thanks for the link, Wealdie. I usually only visit Matt Cutt's blog around once a week but this latest post should be worth a read. Thanks.

 

You are welcome - the other one posted by Bogart above is well worth a read too

 

Thanks For the link wealdie and Bogart

 

So, what should be the solution. We should change links in paid blog posts to no-follow? and hope to see the PR come back in the next update?

 

That would seem to be the long and short of it

 

pure ajitation imo , in the end the grey zone will retreat and the areas will be occupied by spammers.

 

Thanks for the link mate!! Very interesting!

 

Nice read and has some valid points about it all

 

Nice artilce from Matt Cutts. He never stops.

 

Wow what happened to the good old days when DP was full of professionals with insightful posts on topics like this?

noobpoint has taken over.

 

Well, I do have one point here. Matt says that they have no trouble detecting affiliate links, but I beg to differ. I've noticed pages of one affiliate program I use go past my own pages on the subject when I didn't no-follow those links. Since I did not like that, I changed the links to no-follow. The result: now I rank for those key-phrases. So yes, google has a reason to want to hit payed links: they aren't very good at it.