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

[Wealdie]

Read the full thing here

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

[trichnosis]

thanks for the link.

google continues to work

[Wealdie]

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

[bogart]

It's also posted on webmaster central blog.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...d-selling.html

Thanks for posting.

[Wealdie]

Originally Posted by bogart

It's also posted on webmaster central blog.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...d-selling.html

Thanks for posting.

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

[digital1]

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.

[Wealdie]

Originally Posted by digital1

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

[izeaus]

Thanks For the link wealdie and Bogart

[rosiee007]

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?

[Wealdie]

Originally Posted by rosiee007

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

[zangief]

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

[Professional Dude]

Thanks for the link mate!! Very interesting!

[templates]

Nice read and has some valid points about it all

[mirturk]

Nice artilce from Matt Cutts. He never stops.

[GeorgeB.]

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.

[kh7]

Originally Posted by GeorgeB.

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.