Comments on: Text-Link-Ads Lies And Is Dangerous!

By: Bong (JB)

Bong (JB) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:47:56 +0000

This post and the comments were quite informative.We’re not into hard coding and would like to set-up a blog with the least effort as possible. Looks like we won’t be using TLA. Thanks all.

By: George

George — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:01:58 +0000

Can you show me one example of this? A page that ranked high for “xyz” and after putting TLA on their site didn’t rank high for xyz?

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:11:15 +0000

George,

It’s actually more common the other way around. More people lose their search engine placement/ranking per individual post compared to losing their actual PageRank. Meaning your site can be a PR5 but pull up on page five for a lot of things that you normally pulled up on page one or two for.

As far as selling text link ads, Google doesn’t say you can’t do it. They say that if you do, your site doesn’t meet their quality guidelines. You can sell text links all you want. But, if you value your ranking in Google, you might not want to do so.

Some houses… the owner wants you to take your shoes off before entering… other home owners don’t care. All in all, the rules each home owner has set for their guests should be honored and respected if you want to enter. This isn’t much different than Google.

By: George

George — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:05:41 +0000

You realize what’s next?

Once Google has everyone believing they can’t sell text link ads, they are going to tell everyone you can’t sell banner advertising without the “nofollow” tag, because the extra links mess with THEIR algorithm (which they do).

After that what will be their next target???

As far as TLA telling lies, I have gone to a couple of places that sell TLA ads and haven’t seen the signature you are talking about. On the other hand, I am sure Google can find Text Link Ads by the many people who “tell on” their competitors for selling ads.

Do you know of people actually losing their rankings for selling links? I have heard of people losing their page rank, but not their search rankings.

All the best,
George

By: jez

jez — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:49:28 +0000

to put it bluntly, tla is sh%t. I have never used them and never will. I cant understand why people put “creditcard loan” et cetera on their sidebars. as if someone would click it anyway. best decision ever to walk out of them garry.

btw. the GC DC picture is amusing ;o

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By: singapore athletics

singapore athletics — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:17:47 +0000

that article link to “How Not to Get Penalized” will surely help

i too hard code all my blog, i just feel in more control doing so. i think bloggers are getting too ‘lazy’ these days

slap a new theme plus ads and hope to make money. not easy as that

btw love the new look! always a new look everytime i’m here

By: Collin

Collin — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:08:49 +0000

There seems to be compitetion everywhere for those looking to make money online eh.

By: Mike Pedersen Golf

Mike Pedersen Golf — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:02:12 +0000

Gary great post! I truly appreciate your honesty and your opinion that is based on your doing some legwork to get some answers. So…how do we as bloggers monetize our blogs? Does that mean we can’t sell advertising? I can’t imagine that’s the case. Your thoughts please.

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