Google to launch paid reviews?

[yogesh sarkar]

Just came across this on Shoemoney blog:

I had an unconfirmed resource emailing me that Google Adsense will be testing a paid review service within the next couple months to beta testers via Adsense.

Source: Shoemoney

[hosttrde]

haha about time google will clearly state they're selling links.

[yogesh sarkar]

They never actually had problem with selling links, they have a problem (at least publicly) with link sale which is done for gaining toolbar PR.

[danimal]

google can't tell the difference between paid links for traffic and paid links for p.r.

this paid review service rumour is pretty interesting!

[shenron]

Originally Posted by danimal

google can't tell the difference between paid links for traffic and paid links for p.r.

this paid review service rumour is pretty interesting!

Yes they can - the "nofollow" attribute

[lpstong]

Well I guess they will try and corner the market on paid reviews. Anything for profit and since they are trying to control what the bloggers are doing. Something they havent exactly cornered yet or have a thumb on. Especially since they tried to track down paid reviews for PR and gave a few bloggers a 0 for such reviews.

Same way I see it as Shoemoney had said:

Google has pretty much destroyed ReviewMe and PayPerPost (the competition) and launching there own seems like it would solve all of their problems. The big issues Google had with paid reviews was the linking issue and now they can control all of that PLUS get a chunk of the revenue.

And with that I know that PPP has tried to implement their own PR system now.

[yogesh sarkar]

Originally Posted by danimal

google can't tell the difference between paid links for traffic and paid links for p.r.

this paid review service rumour is pretty interesting!

That’s why they are advocating the use of nofollow for paid links, that way no pr is passed and the site can still get traffic.

As for this being a rumor, well it could be but I have a feeling this really isn’t a rumor.

[snakeair]

hmmm very nice. Another way for google to earn more money and continue to own the internet. At least we'll have more reading material now.

[Proximity]

Thanks for the info!

[jezzz]

Wow! Amazing news

[livingingermany]

I believe that Google Knol will also offer an incentive to its writers to get quality content on the site, possibily could help with tuition frees for many a poor student.

[Smaaz]

maybe they will also release a bid directory soon

[michael.aulia]

Interesting..how do you become a beta tester?

[godmode]

I kinda find this more of a rumour than fact. anyways hope it wasnt a link bait

[yogesh sarkar]

Originally Posted by Smaaz

maybe they will also release a bid directory soon

they haven’t totally killed directory yet, so I am guessing that would happen later on

[kks_krishna]

very interesting.

[Rohit patel]

Well that's a great news for bloggers. Now other sites should be worried because of Google's service. Let's wait for big lunch of it.

[danimal]

Originally Posted by shenron

Yes they can - the "nofollow" attribute

no, that doesn't tell google if it's a paid link, it just tells google how to handle the p.r.... i put up "nofollow" for unpaid links all the time.