Comments on: Paid Links, De-Indexing and Google

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:14:26 +0000

Hi Jason,
Thanks for commenting! Like you said, take PR with a grain of salt . I was just bothered by the threat of a rankings penalty. It is as if Google decided to penalize EVERYONE who was selling ads because they are not able to pick out JUST the violators. I really hope they improve their processes .

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:34:10 +0000

G is waaaaay out of line on this. I mean obviously your site is not a link brokering site, nor are the ads off topic. It really sucks that your PR got stripped, but I kind of take PR with a grain of salt, it’s good to have it, but not necessary by any means. I have seen sites with 0 PR that still rank well. Google is more than likely polluting their index themselves by penalizing valid, informational, and white hat SEOed sites. If they continue this practice, people will just quit using them to perform searches because they will not want only sites that have G ads on them. I’m already getting annoyed with them.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:16:22 +0000

Hey Chris,
Who knows with the mind of Google – haha. Danny Sullivan pointed out in a post from October: http://searchengineland.com/071007-173841.php, it appears that the next step for Google will be a de-indexing of the offending site or at least some type of ranking penalty.

By: Chris Estes

Chris Estes — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:50:00 +0000

After reading your article last night I wanted to come back and point something else. The so called “google smack down” has been the talk of the SEO and SEM industry for months. Once this passes what will it be next?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:04:05 +0000

I agree, Chris. Google should really examine and fix the spam detectors. I think they should have gotten it right BEFORE the decision to penalize. I strongly feel that the sites that exist solely to scam the index should certainly be penalized. I just disagree with penalizing everyone because the filters are not strong enough to differentiate white-hat from black-hat.

I also would not care if PR was the only thing affected. The whole “de-indexing” thing kinda takes it too far, in my opinion.

Thanks for commenting!

By: Chris Estes

Chris Estes — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:08:56 +0000

Interesting opinion. In a way google is acting like the internet police. I understand why they did it but there needs to be some changes to the spam detectors.