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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I am staying away from all sites that are focused on clothing beginning with “ind-”
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could you juat shut the fuck up?
your link buying bitching becomes really boring.
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Definitely a rather smart link buying campaign, but why the hell didnt they vary the text… event just a little.
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jusack my blog fuck off
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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/ - 7
I think Dave has a point there.
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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?).
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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).
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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.
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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?
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is that an adsense unit?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Perhaps the graphic should say ‘Ads FOR Google’
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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?
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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. - 20
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!
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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In fact it was a 468×60 div with an image background and three links.
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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
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Google always punish If u sell links on your site! Stay away from link selling
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Stay away from a company called Direct Traffic Media. They participate in link selling – we were burned pretty badly by them with no comeback. Good luck!
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I will second that on Direct Traffic Media. We spent thousands with them a while back and got burned very very badly. Virtually no increase in traffic, appalling customer service and a load of fake promises and ‘guarantees’ that never even came close to materialising. They are a bunch of conartists and I would not advise ANYONE to enter into business with them. When you ultimately stop working with them you then lose all the links they have built and you might as well have burned the thousands of pounds invested….
Hi,
I don’t understand what you mean… :-/