Comments on: I Did a Bad Bad Thing – Paid to Blog

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:49:30 +0000

@Apexad – Hmph. Do you think you broke some of their rules like doing sponsored posts, selling links and the like?

By: apexad

apexad — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:17:48 +0000

Hi Bush!
It’s been a long time. I just decided to stop by out of the blue and noticed this post which caused me to look at what the page rank is for my main 3 domains, apexad.net, sqlapex.com and dualmonitorbabes.com and interestingly enough apexad.net had a PR of 0 which can’t be right so I submitted a re-inclusion request.

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My PageRank is Back! | Bush Mackel — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:01:57 +0000

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By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:05:51 +0000

@Jan – Hey Jan, welcome to the blog! Yeah, I think when I was doing paid posts I wouldn’t get comments and I think that was indicative of what those things were doing to my site overall.

And now that you mention it, I’m not sure what other search engines do to paid posts. I guess those of us who really go after search engine traffic tend to focus a lot on Google and just figure the other ones will “work out” in turn.

By: jan geronimo

jan geronimo — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:06:27 +0000

If there’s one thing I don’t do when I visit blogs it’s leaving a comment on paid posts. It’s not just my thing. I have online buddies who do paid posts. It doesn’t even figure that they’re my friends. I always give those stuff the wide berth.

Do other major search engines treat paid posts the way Google does? Granted that they don’t, I think your decision is still a wise one. Google is Google. Displease it and one might as well kiss web search traffic goodbye.