Why Google Why?!
Technorati Tags: Alexa Rank, Google, paid blog post, paid links, PRMuch debate has been buzzing around the internet about Google’s PR. There are those that live for great PR and those that really don’t care because they have tons of traffic already. What a PR means for most people that blog is that PayPerPost and Blogsvertise, and other such paid to post ad agencies are based on this PR.
Google’s PR and Alexa Rank have tons to do with how much you will get paid for a post and the number of opportunities that you get as well. When Google decides that your PR needs to be dropped because of the number of links that you have been paid for it hurts. Why does this hurt, because you can’t get paid as much any more.
What is the problem with deleting the old ads? In the case of Blogsvertise, you are not allowed to do so. For the rest of the life of your blog you much advertise for these companies that paid you $5.00. I don’t know anyone that is getting a good end of the stick with that one. It doesn’t sound like much, but if a company today can pay $5.00 for a life time of advertising then they will need to fork over more than that.
I’m getting ready to write Blogsvertise and ask them what benefit of it is mine to have my PR go down when I have to advertise for the rest of my bogs life. This could be years, even decades. I do think that if this was a re-occurring revenue then I would be more quiet about it. Being bought for $5.00 is a bit low for a life time of advertising.
My suggestion to you is to really think about what you are doing and the way that you are advertising. Google will get you for paid advertising, they will lower your PR, if not even drop you out of the running for linking to a site that is known for buying links though bloggers. I think that I’m more than likely going to stop advertising after one month. This will keep the paid advertising down and it will give them what they pay for, and that to me is 30 days of their post being on my site. If they would like to have their post moved to the front of the page or left on my blog then they should pay a monthly fee.
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:28 am
You make some good points here, however, some proof-reading is in order if you wish the full effect to reach your readers.
For example: “There are those that live for a great PR…” the indefinite article ‘a’ is not used with the acronym PR and the phrase should read: “There are those that live for great PR…”
Also, “…then they will need to for over more than that.” I think you meant to write ‘fork’ rather than ‘for’.
I don’t want to be a dick about it, but I thought you might like to know that improper grammar and sloppy punctuation detract from a strong point.
Cheers
December 24th, 2007 at 9:13 am
Dustin: I will have to agree with your. My problem is that I have never done very well at English and the whole punctuation stuff. I excelled in Math, but that doesn’t really matter when writing a blog and having readers does it.
I reason I have for not knowing English better is just laziness. Although, I have improved over the past year because of writing this blog. I Should try and take a college English course, so that I could test myself. One day that may happen, for now I thank you for your comments and the English lesson. I also to the time to fix your suggestions.