Comments on: Text Links, Nofollow and Google PageRank http://scott.yang.id.au/2007/10/text-links-nofollow-and-google-pagerank/ Faith, Technology and Randomness in Life, According to Scott Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:17:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MacManX.com | Goodbye Text Link Ads! http://scott.yang.id.au/2007/10/text-links-nofollow-and-google-pagerank/#comment-93464 MacManX.com | Goodbye Text Link Ads! Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:48:13 +0000 http://scott.yang.id.au/2007/10/text-links-nofollow-and-google-pagerank/#comment-93464 [...] should be unobtrusive, but this seems to go against that principle. If you think that’s bad, Scott Yang recently received the following request from a Text Link Ads employee: Also, can you please change the “Sponsored Links” text [...] [...] should be unobtrusive, but this seems to go against that principle. If you think that’s bad, Scott Yang recently received the following request from a Text Link Ads employee: Also, can you please change the “Sponsored Links” text [...]

]]> By: Al http://scott.yang.id.au/2007/10/text-links-nofollow-and-google-pagerank/#comment-89579 Al Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:55:48 +0000 http://scott.yang.id.au/2007/10/text-links-nofollow-and-google-pagerank/#comment-89579 I signed up for text link ads a long time ago, however after finding out that they didn't allow you to nofollow the links - my impression of their service dropped quite a few notches. They openly proclaim that they aren't in it to game the search engines and it is about swapping/directing traffic from one site to another but if that were the case, they'd allow the nofollow. I never bothered to deploy their advertising on any of my sites, their loss in my opinion - not mine. I signed up for text link ads a long time ago, however after finding out that they didn’t allow you to nofollow the links – my impression of their service dropped quite a few notches.

They openly proclaim that they aren’t in it to game the search engines and it is about swapping/directing traffic from one site to another but if that were the case, they’d allow the nofollow.

I never bothered to deploy their advertising on any of my sites, their loss in my opinion – not mine.

]]> By: bLuefRogX http://scott.yang.id.au/2007/10/text-links-nofollow-and-google-pagerank/#comment-89331 bLuefRogX Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:27:16 +0000 http://scott.yang.id.au/2007/10/text-links-nofollow-and-google-pagerank/#comment-89331 I'm pretty much a new blogger and I was planning on trying out TLA ads but from what I've read in your article, they don't seem very ethical. Thanks for the heads up. I’m pretty much a new blogger and I was planning on trying out TLA ads but from what I’ve read in your article, they don’t seem very ethical. Thanks for the heads up.

]]> By: Ndaru http://scott.yang.id.au/2007/10/text-links-nofollow-and-google-pagerank/#comment-89126 Ndaru Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:22:38 +0000 http://scott.yang.id.au/2007/10/text-links-nofollow-and-google-pagerank/#comment-89126 Thank you for sharing your experience. Google also has demoted one of my sites from PR6 to PR4. And yes, it sold TLA ads. Luckily, as you've described, there is no lost in SE / organic traffic. I guess this is the middle way chosen by Google. They must somehow stop the gaming of their system without starting a revolt from the legion of PR6/PR7/PR8 site owners. Google did it by showing what we always suspect for quite sometime, that PR value is irrelevant to your SE traffic. This will kill the TLA business and sends hundreds of webmasters scurrying to remove their TLA ads, including me. Thank you for sharing your experience.

Google also has demoted one of my sites from PR6 to PR4. And yes, it sold TLA ads. Luckily, as you’ve described, there is no lost in SE / organic traffic. I guess this is the middle way chosen by Google. They must somehow stop the gaming of their system without starting a revolt from the legion of PR6/PR7/PR8 site owners. Google did it by showing what we always suspect for quite sometime, that PR value is irrelevant to your SE traffic. This will kill the TLA business and sends hundreds of webmasters scurrying to remove their TLA ads, including me.

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