a nice little pagerank 3 website : I thought I had found a new adsense block …
You see the “From” and “Get a Quote” well guess what they are Not Ads buy google they a sold links !!
DaveN
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27th March 2008 @ 19:35
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I am staying away from all sites that are focused on clothing beginning with “ind-”
27th March 2008 @ 19:59
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could you juat shut the fuck up?
your link buying bitching becomes really boring.
27th March 2008 @ 20:09
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Definitely a rather smart link buying campaign, but why the hell didnt they vary the text… event just a little.
27th March 2008 @ 20:22
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jusack my blog fuck off
27th March 2008 @ 21:33
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Dave
Gab wrote a blog post about something similar this week.
http://seoroi.com/seo-roi-quality/sneakiest-text-link-ad-disguise/27th March 2008 @ 21:38
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I think Dave has a point there.
27th March 2008 @ 21:39
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Well, I never proposed that you try and create non-existent ad blocks! That’s just poor implementation, I’m afraid!
Kinda fun to see people adopting my idea though (or that others came up with this independently?).
27th March 2008 @ 22:55
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When I did a search for “from conservatories to wind” I found many different formats to the link purchase.
Careful if you look at all the results because one tried to install a virus on my computer (shame on Google for not taking that result out - last one).
28th March 2008 @ 00:02
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Some very big UK brands using that network/service
shame that once you find one you can find dozens more - Some parabuilding type ad text wouldn’t of gone a miss.
28th March 2008 @ 00:18
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I’d like to point out that I didn’t suggest doing the text link disguises that way. This is poor execution.
BTW, Dave: Were you being sarcastic in the title, because of the execution; or were you serious, because of the idea behind this?
28th March 2008 @ 06:12
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is that an adsense unit?
28th March 2008 @ 08:07
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I’ve seen this kind of thing with fake banner ads - obviously bought links that appear at first glance to be a standard 468×60 banner. In fact it was a 468×60 div with an image background and three links. All pretty unsophisticated, anyway
28th March 2008 @ 11:20
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I think that is quite clever and cannot fathom the controversy - Dave thanks for pointing this out. I think its interesting to see the creativity of webmasters on the net.
28th March 2008 @ 12:22
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The thing people forget about these kinds of tricks is that passing Google’s manual review is just half the battle.
29th March 2008 @ 11:21
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At first I wasn’t even sure if this post was written by Dave as the grammar is so poor, but I guess it was just a fast post. Anyway, I’ve seen numerous sites creating text link blocks that look like Google ad blocks (the TravelGolf.com network started doing this a couple of years ago), but labeling these specifically as Google ads is certainly something that Google will frown upon. I assume you are just pointing out your find and not actually endorsing it?
29th March 2008 @ 16:18
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Perhaps the graphic should say ‘Ads FOR Google’
29th March 2008 @ 16:21
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You may not want to name the spammers - but I will…
Dave - seriously. Jusacks Comments…
You talk about links a lot. What should Google do? My feeling is remove links from the algorithm. You think this is possible?
29th March 2008 @ 17:41
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This I think is not so safe technique. Coz deceiving the users is one thing,
and escaping from google’s eye is next to losing your potential online venture
just for being a little adventurous.31st March 2008 @ 08:43
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Well, it’s all fine and well cloaking text links to look like Google served them, but in certain industries, where there will be little or no ads it immediately sets off an alarm bell concerning trust issues in my head.
“Can i trust there guys if they are using deliberately deceiving me?”
That said, it’s pretty cunning, like a fox from harvard!
31st March 2008 @ 17:14
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[...] Naylor started an interesting discussion on his blog this week about how websites are selling text links disguised as Google Adsense [...]
4th April 2008 @ 01:22
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[...] you are going to sell links, you can cloak them as being AdSense ads to lower your risk profile, because if it’s Google its got to be Good! Or you can require the [...]
18th April 2008 @ 18:49
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In fact it was a 468×60 div with an image background and three links.
20th April 2008 @ 17:06
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In response to the trackback - mentioning the little green bar….
I can see it now, a streetfighter II set up with MC on one side and Guile on the other - Let’s Fight!
If big G wanted the money they could sell PR top ups
2nd July 2008 @ 17:21
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Google always punish If u sell links on your site! Stay away from link selling
13th June 2009 @ 23:31
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