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Re: Google Paid Links – Google Sliding Down The Slippery Slope of Evildom

Scott — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:56:02 -0000

Money is the root of all evil. Google upset because they want to own all links and tell webmasters what they can and can't do. The reason why it is an issue is due to two factors:

1. Links affect their results
2. Links make money

They have to understand that money buys all business unless you are lucky to get referrals. They need to bite the bullet and understand that the real world works in the same way. Its a money and popularity contest. Money gets you places. Thats why no one cares about my comment right now and thats why it wont make a difference.

Re: Google Paid Links – Google Sliding Down The Slippery Slope of Evildom

Scott — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:56:02 -0000

Money is the root of all evil. Google upset because they want to own all links and tell webmasters what they can and can't do. The reason why it is an issue is due to two factors:

1. Links affect their results
2. Links make money

Re: Google Paid Links – Google Sliding Down The Slippery Slope of Evildom

allan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:45:51 -0000

I am writting an operating system called "TheZoid" at http://thezoid.co.uk

I have no choice but to add this due to nasty search engine which will not advertise my busuiness called google addwords on www.google.co.uk which wishes to charge very high prices and as an excuse call my website very poor quality. If you manage to find this website as www.google.co.uk is trying its best to keep it out of its search engine that is unbelivable. I would like to know why google cannot recognize TheZoid as an operating system !!! Please send www.google.co.uk lots of emails and tell them that shitting on the small man is good business sense. If google wishes me to remove this from my website than advertise my business fairly, at resaonable rates !!!!

Did you know google.co.uk wishes to charge upto five pounds for one Click for the word "Operating System" and many other words, I would like to know what is this Bullshit !!!!
Please show your outrage by boycotting the google search engine !!!!

This message was posted on 15/11/2007 just after I cancelled my google adwords account which will not advertise my business. I will not pay stupid prices for one click for one keyword !!

If you work at www.google.co.uk and find this fucking offensive then I am fucking hope so and you can go fuck yourselfs. PS keep pissing of the small man, and I hope you go out of business !!!!

Re: Google Paid Links – Google Sliding Down The Slippery Slope of Evildom

allan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:45:51 -0000

I am writting an operating system called "TheZoid" at http://thezoid.co.uk

This message was posted on 15/11/2007 just after I cancelled my google adwords account which will not advertise my business. I will not pay stupid prices for one click for one keyword !!

If you work at www.google.co.uk and find this fucking offensive then I am fucking hope so and you can go fuck yourselfs. PS keep pissing of the small man, and I hope you go out of business !!!!

Re: Google Paid Links – Google Sliding Down The Slippery Slope of Evildom

Andy Baxter — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:19:29 -0000

I have only just latched onto this paid links witchhunt recently and, of all the things Google has done over the years, this is surely the most ill-advised.

Paid links are only ever sought by people who seek to make a profit from their websites.

That being the case, if my site sells "Red Widgets" then I am going to try to increase my serps for the term Red Widgets.

If doing this makes me Number One on Google for the term "Red Widgets" then what is the problem?

When a user types in "Red Widgets", they will see my link, click on it and think, "Oh great, this site sells Red Widgets, this is exactly what I am looking for".

If Google now decides to penalise me for paying for links that have made me top for "Red Widgets" they are hurting me and hurting the user.

The whole point of a search engine is search-term relevancy.

If my site is the very best resource for "Red Widgets", who are Google REALLY penalising when they make my site drop out from the serps?

Answer: A: Themselves (because they are now not providing their user with the best resource for the term), B:The Searcher because by the time they have penalised all the Red Widget sellers, who knows what will come up tops? C:The business and website owners who give Google something to give to their users.

I have long thought that Google basically want every dollar that is spent on the internet to somehow go through them so that they pick up a least one cent.

This new measure just goes to prove it.

The only way they want webmasters to monetise their sites by selling those little bits of white space is through Adsense.

It has been some time since they made a crackdown on Affiliate Sites - their argument may be that they clog up the serps with duplicate content. I disagree but this isn't really the argument. The problem they have is that affiliate sites don't pass on any revenue to Google.

If it were possible to prevent every business owner from being so scared of Google and show some balls as the author of this site has done then I would say, "Just carry on, buy links if you have the budget, when Google penalises every busines owner in the world for buying links, where will that leave their serps? A search for Red Widgets will come up with Blue Widgets and their users will soon tire of that and move elsewhere."