Joshua Lim Eng Hoon

Paid Post the root of all evil

2007-11-28T00:24:00.001-08:00

I would encourage the crew at TechCrunch to re-examine their advertising and implicit endorsement of Text Link Ads, which pollutes the blogosphere in the same way PayPerPost does, by selling links with the intention of gaming Google. Just as PayPerPost “posties” were recently penalized by Google and Pagerank was one of the criteria that advertisers looked for when choosing which bloggers to give money to, Text Link Ads has been doing the same thing for years, they’ve just been more explicit about it. (And their corporate site has been penalized in Google for a long time.)

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Paid Posts Dodgers

2007-11-27T17:11:00.000-08:00

Yeah, everybody is writing paid posts nowadays to make money. It's been a cat and mouse game with Google where so-called posties are trying to hide from Google by removing all indications of their affiliate to paid post companies and try to look natural. It's a funny situation really.

Online Ads booming

2007-11-27T16:14:00.000-08:00

Why are so many bloggers going ga ga over ads and ad networks? Why it's because the print ads are starting to lose out to online ads. With so much money shifting to online ads, bloggers and companies that are prominent on the Internet are the ones that's going to reap the profit.

Seeing this, I think it's a good time for small time bloggers to jump in the bandwagon and make some $$$.