By Jim Kukral
•
December 3, 2007
•
Google, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Text Link Ads
•
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 department, as Google’s Matt Cutts says, is to disallow the advertising for such PageRank-selling schemes via Google.
The assault on link brokers continues. Gotta give Google credit though… they are putting their money where their mouth is. Wait, does that make sense? I think so.
When you join Jim's group you join thousands of other successful people who want to work together to grow their brands and businesses. When you join today, you'll get instant access to Jim's latest webinar replay entitled "The New Rules of Self-Publishing".
Business Around A Lifestyle
The world changed on 9/11 in so many different ways. Since that day, there has been a major shift happening in the way people think and live their lives. Sure, many people still chase the dollar as their ultimate goal. However, many more people have begun to realize that the world could, well, end tomorrow.
That's why people are choosing to pursue a business around a lifestyle, instead of a lifestyle controlled by their business. It makes sense, right? If the world was going to end tomorrow, would you still try to live your life in a way you never wanted to?
Take a look around you and you'll see that this shift to becoming a lifestyle entrepreneur is being adopted by more and more people every day. Some of those people are falling into it because they have been laid off from their jobs and are literally forced into it. Some of those people just figure out a way to make it happen because of the "end of the world" thinking mentioned above.
Google has become the bully of the internet. I really am not a fan of them anymore. I thought it was bad enough when they kicked people out of AdSense for life. Now they are demoting everyone because of social networks. I had PR4′s go to PR1′s. Google is trash.
Google is famous for its heavy handedness. If your PR has been reduced or obliterated there are some steps you can take to get it back. read about it on my blog.
They’re really wanting that call from the US Justice Department aren’t they? It was good to see that Matt Cutts already has his deposition ready on his blog. They can’t ‘lose’ emails like Microsoft did.
I can see the headlines now, “US Government Removed From Google Index”. :)