PR links sold today are being used just for SEO, the people paying for them couldn’t care less if nobody ever clicked on them.

So I’m quite content to carry on as I am, and having said that, it still has to be about good content which will bring visitors in, and interacting with comments and therefore building trust.

Who knows what Google will do next?

I’m new to blogging and from what I understand Google AdSense is very unlikely to produce as much income for me as text-linked advertising. My blogs will soon be three-months old and I’ll get to be more aggressive.

I have so much to learn — thanks for the help.

As much as I love Google, this king of thing will start to portray them more in the category of monopolizers, forcing people to follow their rules or else! and that is never going to sit well with the public in the long run!!

But, still we really can’t say much until we get some proof of this kind of thing or may be something which someone may have experienced it. It will be hard to say, but I do think that what you are saying will be most likely correct.

@ Anonymous, when each new post is indexed, how is it that the crawlers don’t decipher links within a post?

Mioved to wordpress like it aliot

@Susan - I’ve gotten so used to Google, I hadn’t been using Yahoo for sometime, may be occasionally did, but recently ive noticed quite a bit of improvement in searches results!

@Ken…. yep, concentrating on content will take care of these problems

I am with a particular link broker, one of which you mentioned here, but I will remain anonymous for now. Hope you don’t mind. I want to tell bloggers what to do to protect themselves and still reap the rewards of making money blogging. It’s absolutely absurd for google to tell bloggers what they can and cannot do by penalizing them for anything. If it’s spammy, fine, but most of this is just a bunch of BS.

So here’s what you do… remove all affiliate links from your site. Or use some link redirector so it hides these places names on your site. If you use a TLA or LinkWorth or PPP, you can talk about them in your blog posts because that’s not what the spiders can decipher, they look at sidebars, headers and footers. Work links into your content, it’s the least detectable way. I know LinkWorth has a product called LinkInTxt where it crawls your pages and offers up keywords for sale. Then you basically hyperlink that keyword to the advertiser. It’s all relevant and good for your readers at the same time. Most importantly, Google can’t say shit about it. I think TLA has something similar for wordpress, but I don’t think it’s as good as LinkWorth’s.

PayPerPost - just remove the buy direct on the page or you hide the url. That’s the most important thing here, if you use an image from one of these places, save the image to your hard drive, rename it to what you want to call it that has nothing to do with the company, then upload it and use it. Or even better, make your own so if a human reviews your site from google, they can’t tell.

Just be smart and not so obvious and you’ll be fine. Google is going to take this too far and they’ll turn the people that built their empire against them and they’ll crumble like the Soviet Union.