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In an October post, Mr Scoble tells his readers that “PayPerPost is the company that Mike Arrington founder of TechCrunch (and me) love to hate.” However, I notice Mr. Scoble stooping to some seemingly paid advertising himself in the form of a Kindle and he quite forthrightly discloses that he’s getting paid by Amazon for each one of the units sold through his link.
So - I’m confused — if selling ads and links from your blog makes you evil and a Google-gamer, then what is Mr. Scoble?
Then in November 17th’s post, he clears it all up by telling us that if the disclosure is BY POST (not a site-wide one), anyone who sells ads and links is an angel. He then warns “Bloggers beware. If you just write great content and put the ads around the content like everyone else does you won’t be messing with Google and Google won’t mess with you.” But again, the Kimble links weren’t in an ad AROUND the content, they were IN A POST.
Well, I suppose he’s entitled to his opinion about PPP as is everyone.
This whole idea that Google is punishing anyone is a bit paranoid if you ask me. I think they reviewed their formula, discovered what they percieved to be a flaw in it (i.e. that it gave too much credence to sites that truly did not warrant it) and made the correction. That the affected sites were mostly downgraded and the downgrading took a bit of wind out of the sails of the site owners is what all the noise is really about. No one likes to be told they’re not as significant as they think they are. It’s just not in the genes.
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November 28th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Do you even read what I write? I don’t think so, based on this post.
It’s not selling links that’s evil, per se, in my mind. The FAR MORE EVIL THING is selling links and NOT DISCLOSING AT THE POST LEVEL. PPP’ers rarely do PER POST disclosures. In fact, my friends who’ve done research show that PPPers often don’t do disclosure of any kind.
Solve that problem FIRST. Then we can move onto other things. I notice that PPP’ers always try to change the topic away from this evilness, just like you did.
November 30th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Hmmm…….yes, I DID read what you wrote, but YOU obviously didn’t read the entire post or you would have read the quote from your later entry.???
I can’t answer for all PPP’ers for sure, but my blog has a site-wide disclosure and the few things I’ve done for PPP have a by-post disclosure as well.
You also stated in that 11/17 post that ads belong AROUND the content, not IN the content, but you put them in your content…so, why are you less “evil” (your term, NOT mine) than I am?
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