I just finished reading a post on the Tech Crunch blog about how all Pay Per Post bloggers are now going to leave ppp because of the drop in page rank. Though I’m sure a few have, the best of the group have not. I don’t think Tech Crunch realizes that PPP pays us much better then Google ever will and provides not only an income but a great way to get rid of writers block.
Tech Crunch and many of the commenter’s on it find paid post unethical, yet they have sponsored post everywhere. They have banners all over and they “Thank” there sponsor’s all the time by leaving them “no-follow” links. You can read more about those on the post Is Google Treating all Bloggers Equally?
The bad thing about this post on Tech Crunch is that it assumes page rank means something. A comment claims that advertisers care about page rank, and yes they do. But if there is an alternative that could change. Pay Per Post parent company IZEA has done just that with Real Rank and I think it’s a much better solution to page rank because it tells an advertiser exactly what that blog is worth based on what that blog does, things like traffic and active links in.
If your interested in a good story you need to see what happens with paid link reporting experiment.
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Thanks for the link - I have saved this link and will add it to the next link update that I do.
There is no doubt in my mind that Google are not treating bloggers equally at all - they seem to want to stamp out certain competitors.
What they don’t realise is that while we may not be all powerful like they are, we each have the personal power to stop using their sites, and we can encourage others to do the same. That can hurt them, even if they don’t think it can.
Cheers,
Snoskred
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