Comments on: Google hates Text Link Ads

By: UnderHeavens!

UnderHeavens! — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:25:47 +0000

Nice Articles you have there. Very informative. Bit, i have a Question:

Will google penalized me for having TLA from Kontera, aswell? Cuz, i have Kontera running on my blog for the last couple of months, n i dont think this as affected my page rank at all. What do you say?

Also, i few days back i got penalized for having ads, not from kontera but from Adbrite, because my traffic from google ( search engine ) drastically reduced. Although i have removed the code, but no luck yet :( What should i do now??

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:53:40 +0000

I just knew it by now. Good that I have read it.

By: Optional

Optional — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:46:04 +0000

If you sell them privately I think it would be hard for Google to detect and penalise you.

By: Pinoy Compuworld

Pinoy Compuworld — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:56:49 +0000

darn! so does this mean that there is no hope having text links ads without being penalized by google?

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:29:00 +0000

True, it may be Google’s way of fending off competition in the online advertising arena. In our case, our Adsense income is way above our TLA earnings so we really don’t have that much of a choice if we are to choose between the two.

By: celljacela

celljacela — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:55:11 +0000

I reckon Google just hates someone having a “better” way to monetize their sites besides adsense. I think PMT did the appropriate move in weighing which channel is beneficial.

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:33:46 +0000

Exactly, and Google does play God sometimes because they want everyone to live by their rules. But since more than 50% of online searches are done in Google and a lot of traffic for sites come from Google search results, webmasters can’t help but just follow what Google wants.

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:30:59 +0000

Let us know if and when you get your original PR back, Jam. I hope you get it soon.

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:24:44 +0000

Good luck, sylv3rbalde. Better safe than sorry, right?

By: sylv3rbalde

sylv3rbalde — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:57:42 +0000

Interesting. I think I’ll remove TLA from my site now. TY for the update.

By: Jam

Jam — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:18:57 +0000

I also had a similar fate. My blog used to have PR 4, now it was downgraded to PR 3. However, I still consider myself lucky because it only went down 1 grade. Many blogs have downgraded to PR 0. To avoid my blog having the same unfortunate fate, I’ve dumped the TLA inlinks script.

I am hoping to gain my PR4 again.

By: Optional

Optional — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:47:33 +0000

Right now my google toolbar shows this page’s PR as grey.

Personally I don’t like that Google can manipulate the market so much. If they had not created a situation where backlinks where so important to webmasters for ranking in their search engine, sites like Linkworth and TLA would not exist in the first place.

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:17:22 +0000

For some bloggers, it’s definitely a matter of choosing between Google and TLA. Some prefer TLA over Adsense because they earn more, but I’d rather stick to Adsense than risk losing our pages on the search results.

I think you’re doing great with the PinoyBlogero blog, Karlo. You do deserve that PR 4.

By: Karlo.PinoyBlogero

Karlo.PinoyBlogero — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:03:20 +0000

This is why I stay away from TLA and Linkworth because I’m afraid google might penalize me. Phew. It’s a good thing mmy blog still remained at PR4.

Thanks for sharing.

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:31:38 +0000

Last year, Google has penalized some sites that use TLA but it did not affect a lot of TLA member sites. When Google updated PageRank in October 2007, several sites, including the big ones, got a lower PR supposedly for selling paid links, in particular, for using TLA in their sites. Our previous experience getting a PR 0 and getting a PR 4 back after removing TLA only goes to show that Google doesn’t really like Text Link Ads.