Will PPP Bloggers Receive the Next Google Slap?
Attention Pay Per Post Bloggers
You might not know it yet, but it is highly possible that you guys are next…by being on the receiving end of the next round of Google slapping.
It seems that we are up to round 4 of all the Google bashing that’s going on in the blogosphere. In this round it seems that certain PPP bloggers have lost Google PR overnight because they were abusing Google’s TOS.
The problem of which many bloggers are not aware of is that Google perceives PPP as a service who sells links. By now we should all be aware of the fact that this is a bad idea in the eye of Google. Unless those links contain a rel=”nofollow” link Google will penalize blogs that participate in such actions whether willingly or unwillingly.
The thing is that many bloggers do this unwillingly because they have absolutely no idea what all the fuss is about. As far as they are concerned they found a great site PPP that pays them money to review other sites.
http://seokats.com/2007/11/google-penalizes-pay-per-post-writers/
The following blog talked about this a little while ago and it seems that the writer was correct.
http://www.affiliatewatcher.com/will-google-be-the-death-blow-to-pay-per-post-companies/
Naturally it is pretty much too late for those who got penalized already. They can choose to remove themselves from PPP, or else don’t worry about this and carry the consequences.
Google has every right to do whatever they want and you will find out why, once you read the following article.
An interesting point was made by Grizzly to day on his blog and I advise all the Google bashers to read this. It will make for an interesting read and might even result in an engaging discussion.
In the end it is my understanding that even though some bloggers choose not to care about Google, we still need them to make money on the Internet.
Your beliefs might differ totally and that’s fine. If you are an existing PPP blogger you will need to decide whether this affects you or not.
Monika
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Hi Monika
Thanks for the linkback! Much appreciated, and what a nice way to find your blog. I’ve bookmarked you to keep reading.
Have you considered joining FuelMyBlog? It’s free and then I can fuelroll you to vote for you every day with my other faves there. I don’t benefit from promoting them… lol. Just like how easy the system is to use!
Either way, I’ll keep reading. Nice to meet you!
Well Monika, your warning may already come too late. I am a PPP blogger and all my blogs has been PR ‘zerofied’ by Google. 9/10 of all the PPP blogs I surveyed have also been penalized by Google with a PR 0. I listed the handful of Malaysian PPP bloggers that I know of on my blog.
Now all that remains is whether the affected bloggers will turn around, follow Google’s advice, stop writing paid posts and request for reinclusion using Google’s webmaster tools.
Seokats: you are welcome, but to just clarify things, this isn’t my blog. I’m merely a blogger writing here for Gobala Krishnan. Nonetheless I’m glad you found us and hope you will come back frequent.
Andrew: it sucks and I am sorry for you and all the others this happens to right now. I totally understand Google since they do make their rules and I guess with the power they have they simply CAN.
But many bloggers had no idea it was affecting them and now it is rather late to make changes. This is really what sucks mostly.
From a consumer viewpoint if I am searching for, lets say, Sinus Products. In the process of searching I get a list of results that are all reviews from paid per post authors.
Gues what
I am going to another search engine! I want authentic reviews, not a bunch of mercenaries.
Google did the right thing by the consumer.
Of course the above is based on the assumption that PPP bloggers only get paid if they write something positive.
It is funny: I have two blogs in the PPP network: my main one got slapped and it is now a PR0, while the other blog, which was younger and had PR1, maintained it. It will be interesting to see how PPP’s Real Rank will work, because in case PR will not be a criterion of ranking blogs, I might be interested to stay with PPP, as long as my traffic is not affected by the PR drop.
hey monika, glad to see you on the team. How does this work now, you are part of the eWP team or are you just being really generous about writing posts for Gobala? In any case, i find your article really interesting and i follow along the same lines, http://www.blogmiracle.com
Good luck,
Seeni
Good, if I want infomercials I will watch late night television. I am really tired of having to call on my 12 years of internet marketing to figure out if a review of a product is really a review or just a commercial masquerading as one. Blogs were so freshing for a while, now they are just another commercial annoyance.
David: good point and one I haven’t contemplated.
Simonne: hey, nice to see you. There you go, it is true after all and after I published this post the other day I found a list of tons of bloggers who got hit. They were mainly in Malaysia, but I believe it is affecting everybody more or less.
Seeni J G: thanks for the welcoming words.
Yes, I’m part of the EW team. I’ve been working with Gobala since June this year and it has been great. Since I am a blogger and freelance writer that is what I do for a (near) living. Glad you find my posts useful.
Benjamin: I guess you are referring to David’s comment regarding reviews??
I agree with you in terms of finding it hard to stay true to your blog if one does these reviews. I think it is essential for any blogger to only write reviews who fit their blogs theme.
And then there is always the amount too. Some bloggers have gone a little wild and it makes it hard to become a reader if the blog is loaded with reviews.