Masive Link Packages Rocking in Google
Everyday I study the Google SERPs and continue to be happily amazed. I find it ironic that for all the tough paid link talk, Google seems to love crappy paid links more than ever. Link buyers with new sites that bought those 1,000 -10,000 non relevant link packages over the past 6 months are happy as pigs in slop as many are ranking with the big boys now.
Normally turnover on these packages is fairly high as new webmasters give up after three or four months without measurable results. Now that they are killing the SERPs non-renewals are almost non-existent over the past 4 months.
Still, I have to think this complete loss of the ability to manage link spam is a temporary Google glitch (one that can make someone several thousand dollars in the right niche). It is also a great opportunity for those that have 100,000s of links to sell because SEOs are buying up as many links as possible for their clients.
It’s funny, I’ll see an SEO preach about buying high quality relevant links and they are the first ones to buy up all the garbage links - I think they know what I am seeing and don’t want to let the cat out of the bag. Let the competitors run scared while they slash and burn.
But stubbornly I stick to my mantra (for now) - Buy links in the existing content of relevant websites.
10 Ways Google Can Spot Paid Links
With all of their spidering and datacenter power, it should be very easy for Google to spot paid links. However, they continue to give top 10 rankings to sites having nothing but obvious paid backlinks.
To make things easy for Google engineers, I have created a top 10 list on how to spot paid links. Read more
Text-Link-Ads Banned by Google
Yes, I know this is old news. However what is a bit strange is that everyone in the SEO community knows about it but very few have written about what happened and why. The question that lingers is why was Text-Link-Ads banned (or perhaps penalized)? Why was one of the original text link brokerages banned by Google while others were untouched? At SES, there were two theories floating around: Read more
Google Loves Crap Paid Links
Over the past few weeks, either Google removed their filters to block sites that buy 10,000s of worthless links, or someone found a way to exploit a Google weakness. This Google shitstorm is making me sound pretty darn stupid. At Buy Sell Links I preach that if you must buy links, buy relevant links, preferably in content on high quality sites. Read more
Google Toolbar is Spyware
I see many discussions on SEO boards each month with people debating whether Google should hide PagerRank on their toolbar. As usual, everyone is missing the point when it comes to Google’s grand strategy. First you need to ask this question - Who installs the toolbar?
Well you can bet everyday searchers are not installing the Google toolbar and and most don’t even know it exists.. Go ahead and ask your non-techy friends if they installed the Google toolbar and watch their eyes glaze over. Read more