Recently TechCrunch has put up an interesting post about a Google experimenting, that allows that the site popularity are estimated through vote by others users.

This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again, you’ll continue to see those changes. If you later want to revert your changes, you can undo any modifications you’ve made. Note that this is an experimental feature and may be available for only a few weeks.

You can vote your favorites websites, or you can also hide some websites from the Google search results (see image below). At the moment the results of the program are not applied to the general search index but will only be stored per user.

How does to work?

First to use this feature, you must register for a Google account. It doesn’t cost anything to sign up for a Google account, however, I think not everybody will see this feature on their Google dashboard, even after you sign into their Google account. But for those who can use this feature, here is how you use it.

I like it! If you like a particular website you can promote it by clicking on the arrow-up icon beside the result.

 I don’t like it! If you don’t like particular result, you can hide when you search for the same keyword(s) in the future. The sites voted up will stay up. To make this press on “x” icon beside the result.

Google Labs says that “this is an experimental feature and may be available for only a few weeks,”. I love the result. Now we just have to wait to see how long this voting system becomes a normal feature inside the Google search engine. It’s a great way for give to users the chance to contribute on the results they want to see. I would love to hear your thoughts on this especially.

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In its latest Google Dance are been punished all the blogs who used Text LInk Ads or PayPerPost. Many of the reputable sources that have received a penalty, have this factor in common. In some cases are been punished those, who merely have talked on PayPerPost or Text link in their blog posts, but not for this used the program.

Google penalizes by giving lower PageRank values for sites selling links. I seen a lot of bloggers not be happy to have losing Pagerank. In many case has given to blogs “zero” PageRanks value.

Right now it’s just the lowering of Pagerank, bloggers still have some money through selling links, but what will be Google’s next move? Google may penalize sites selling links also in other ways, including full drop from their index, or significantly lowered visibility and ranking inside their search engine results. Some are worried it will result a de-listed in the search result.

De-Listed From Google Index? Can Happen?

I want to make an example. If you go to Google and search for “John Chow“, look at the results! The term “John Chow” has been banned from the Google search result. Now the question are: If Google want to remove text link ads for get search results better, not quite what it are making for, right? How does to make results better if I can not find what I want?

However, if Google deletes all the blogs from its index, I think that we should see an exodus of bloggers out of PayPerPost over the next few months. This will bring PayPerPost not be a business model sustainable in the next future.

Which Decision To Take?

Currently many bloggers are standing at the choose. They are waiting for a small move from Google’s side to make a decision.

Someone think, content is still more important than PageRank. It does not matter if you have zero in your pagerank, because if you provide quality content, readers will still be coming to your blog.

Here my suggestions:

1) If you think that Google traffic is important to you avoid using text links or get paid to write reviews.

2) Not many blogs, have need Google’s PageRank and its search engine traffic, and be independent from it. Not all blogs are JohnChow dot com. 90° percent of the blogs in the blogosphere are dependent to Google, and do not want to be penalized or banned from its index.

3) If you have used text links, or get paid to write reviews, and you have decided to leave them altogether, do submit a “reinclusion request” by using the dedicated form inside the Google Webmaster Tools main page.

4) If you like Google and want its search engine to work better, do not cheat them. Those like you who do honest content writing work have all to gain from this.

5) However if you want to make some significant money by selling text links or paid for review, you have need of a good ranking (least PageRank 5) and a good scores on Technorati and Alexa.

Conclusion

Google started with one purpose, that is to punish those who sell PageRanks. But not all sites are been penalized, for a couple of reasons, both because of time and resources restraints as well as because of the strategy Google used. However, Google’s actions are been a small jolt for many of the blogs.

So far Google, did not give enough information about how to behave and what to do with text link ads or Pay per review. I recommend then to avoid to involved with these programs and you will not be penalized.

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Ever wonder what happened to PayPerPost, the service launched by Ted Murphy, CEO of advertising firm Mindcomet, that promised to many bloggers to make money and for companies to connect with bloggers who are willing to blog about a product – for a price. It is alive and thriving.

Of course one key question that shouldn’t be ignored is if you are really making money with PayPerPost. Yes?

Well. Or not! You must know that once attempted to hit hard Text Link Ads, Google is trying a new target: PayPerPost. I had no way of testing it, but CEO Ted Murphy is disclosing that Google is going after bloggers in the PayPerPost network to reduce their PageRank, from previously value obtained to zero. Consider that one of criteria of valutation to get a pay review it is the Google Pagerank. It’s crazy!

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Ted Murphy says:

Last night Google decided to go after some of the bloggers in our network, reducing their PR from whatever they previously had to zero. Once again Google has proved that PR has little to do with blog traffic, influence or relevance and everything to defending their monopolistic stranglehold on search and online advertising.

Murphy also took a shot at TechCrunch, asking why doesn’t Google penalize them in the same way.

Ted Murphy says:

I find it laughable that high profile bloggers like TechCrunch aren’t being penalized in the same way. Perhaps it’s the fact that they use AdSense. Perhaps it’s the fact that they are silicon valley insiders and are invited to special Google events. Either way I don’t see the difference between a sponsored post in our system or this sponsored post. Both are paid for, neither use no-follow.

Google PageRank VS IZEA RealRank

To take a step up to fight against the Google, PayPerPost’s parent company, IZEA, will launch in the next future a similar system to Google PageRank called RealRank (code named Project Goo Gone).

The problem with Google PageRank is that it is both self serving and irrelevant to actual traffic and influence. The arbitrary and unpredictable nature of this ranking system has left both bloggers and advertisers longing for accurate statistical data since long before PayPerPost. Unfortunately, there are few options out there when it comes to determining the value of a blog. While sites like Alexa attempt to estimate traffic they are inaccurate and do a terrible job when it comes to blogs with smaller niche audiences.

Hopefully, that works better than the Blogger Choice Awards. Have your PageRank been affected for being a PayPerPost publisher?

Selling Links: How To Stay Out The Google Control

Yes, the search engines haven’t quite found a way to collaborate with text links ads program. Until it’s so, text links will continue to distort results because text links can work to increase a site’s rankings with the search engines.

Google has hit Text Link Ads publishers because TLA is the biggest program in the link selling. If you’ve know how Google can tell if you’ve been selling Text Link Ads, it’s actually pretty simple. Shoemoney explained it in his Fun Numbers post.

If you making money with a some paid links and you haven’t hit by Google yet and you want to keep it that way, follow these simple steps:

• remove the link to TLA. However, this could reduce link sales.
• A way around this would be to hide the link is to add a nofollow and noindex to it.
• Links in the side bar are often viewed as paid links, especially if they are site wide.
• Links at the post level are a lot harder to detect.
• Don’t name your links with “Sponsored Links” “Text Link Ads” “Advertisements” and so on. If you must label the links then do it with an image and not text.

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