My contribution to the Problogger pagerank slam competition

Hahaha…

That’s awesome.

Awesomely, sadly, true

No, purely because you appear to have misspelt “on”.

Touche Will!

Yes. Easily.

I think that problogger need to have a PR10 is maybe one of the most userfull blogs on the internet.

Let me get this straight - being a Pom I’m a bit thick…

People are saying that paid links’ sites are being penalised. However, that does not seem to apply to the sponsored postings brigade. Surely a sponsored posting contains paid links?

The reason that I ask is that my two blogs both went to a GPR-4 in the upgrade. One of them was only started in August, and it was set up specifically to offer sponsored stuff.

Sponsored = good
Text links = bad

That makes no sense.

Ken - You’re right, it doesn’t make sense. The thing is, it’s much easier for Google to pick paid text links. Sponsored posts/reviews are harder to spot.

Wrong, but true…..

Thank you for the quick answer.

Taking your point one stage further, does this mean that Google would penalise the sponsored postings blogs if they could, or could it mean that they accept SP as somehow being more legitimate than text links?

Bet your sweet ass they would, and probably will in the future….

All the more reason the, to encourage people to move off the GPR system. What is needed is for someone like Yahoo to come up with a ranking system based on their backlinks.

Ken - No one gets penalised for selling or buying links.
Google just give the links same value as “Nofollow” links.

Hi William, there’s probably a couple of thousand bloggers out there who’d disagree with you after the latest PR update…