Link Sellers: Google Don’t Want Yo Money

Today, in what means to me that they REALLY mean business, Google decided that you can’t advertise with them if you’re trying to promote the selling of links that pass page rank. Google continues to crack down on those text link advertising methods which don’t carry the “nofollow” attribute as a “machine-readable disclosure.” The latest move, triggered by communication between Google’s web spam team and the Google AdWords... Read More »

Arrington “Forgets” To Come To Blogworld Expo

This is really a shame. It’s not a big deal to me, but it’s just a shame. You forgot to come? At least lie to us, lol. It’s too bad really, the blog world expo was one bad ass show, really. Best show I’ve been to besides the Affiliate Summit.  Read More →

John Chow At The Blog World Expo

“I am Shoemoney’s evil Chinese brother,” - John Chow.  Read More →

It’s Official, Google Killed TextLinkAds As We Know It?

It’s official. Google doesn’t want paid links that are followed. More at Techmeme.com. I pondered last week if this was a TextLinkAds.com killer? I don’t think it will be because the guys at TLA are pretty smart and should figure out a way to rebound from this brand assassination they are getting right now. What do you think? Update: Joel in the comments points to this information about TLA today. .. we have just uploaded changes to our marketplace that... Read More »

Google Pagerank Penalties A TextLinkAds Killer?

Rumor, or truth, nobody is sure, but speculation is that the recent Google pagerank drops are a direct counter by Google to “decrease” relevance on sites that sell text links. If true, that is a DIRECT frontal-offensive move at the TextLinkAds business model. The reasoning on this make sense for Google (see Darren’s comments below), but the problem is, for TLA, that their business model is built on passing “Google Juice”. I can understand the... Read More »

How to Monetize Your Blog - The Entrepreneur Magazine eBiz Show

I had the pleasure of appearing on the air with Chris Malta and Robin Cowie of the Entrepreneur Magazine eBiz Show the other day. We talked about how to monetize you blog. The show was broken up into three segments, which can be listened to here. Segment 1 - Mp3 or read transcript. Segment 2 - Mp3 or read transcript. Segment 3 - Mp3 or read transcript. Blogging is one of the biggest trends on the internet right now, but a blog can do more than give you an online voice. It... Read More »