2007 June

Paid links rule

21 06 2007

My view is the usual thing. I think this new rule proves that their PR thing has failed miserably and in order to avoid admitting that they (as every major corporation) are going to pass the buck on the “small guy” (us). Like You I don’t think they ever will develop such an algorithm as it is very much impossible. Why? If a human cannot distinguish between a paid link and a normal link than he will not be able to program a computer to recognize that. I think what will end up happening is that they will start punishing everyone. Virtually every webmaster is paying for links. (those that do not have an unknown websites). Sooner or later they also are going to start doing that to forums and so on. After awhile places like the biggest directories and forums and Text-link-ads and so on are going to start loosing money as many will not be paying to have their link shown somewhere without any effect. I know that most of the links that I have bought and sold will not get any hits ever, but their number does help in that same stupid PR and the sites search popularity. If those links are going to be marked as “nofollow” and put into the supplemental results then they are useless and I am sure as hell not going to pay Yahoo $300/year for a listing.
To me this is simply another way that Google is helping to put a nail into their coffin.

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PTC or not to PTC?

20 06 2007

I have been hearing a lot about all this PTC and PTR and PTP and so on. So I have decided to try some of them to see what the hell is all the buzz is about. What a waste of time. I have joined a few of them (ADBux, trafficSwarm, Bugonptc and etc.) First thing I have noticed is that they have two sorts of memberships, free and paid. That pretty much told me right off the get go that they are scam. Any company that wants their “employees” to pay for the previledge to work there is a scam. That just does not make any sense to me. As a free member You certainly ain’t going to make much at all. In fact it will cost You more to run Your computer than what You will make there. And all those so-called points that You might earn get You nothing. I have gotten thousands of points towards having my site rotated in their manual surf programs yet the most that my site has been rotated is 12 times.

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I have also thought of purchasing credits. I did so with the BugonPTC. For $10.00 I have purchased 25000 visitors. In the last three days I have received only 46 new visitors from them. So, that’s about 15 visitors a day. If being generous with the data it would take more than 5 years for that project to complete. That’s bullshit.

The subject of this programs has become very interesting to me so I will keep looking through the pile and keep You updated.

By the way I would suggest also not purchasing any programs that offer a very quick way to make thousands of dollars. I know You have been warned about all those programs before, but let me remind You ones again. Think about this. If those so-called millionaires really make that much money of the programs they promote than why do they all look like they have just escaped from the trailer park or a looney bin and why do their sites look like crap. Some of them actually admit that they aren’t really selling anything but the ad itself. You’ll end up paying a $100 dollars for the cheap ass website that You would have to spend a whole lot of time and money to promote. This programs are failing all over the place. Especially because google as well as many other search engines don’t like spam. It is cheaper to actually build and promote a real website, get it to, for example, PR5 and sell it. Good websites promote themselves all You have to do is spread the word. Junk sites never get anywhere, require tons of time and money for promotion and usually only seen in supplemental index and spam indexes.

Whatever You do, don’t try to make a quick buck as You will only end up paying more for it.

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