Comments on: Top Ten List “How To Get The Google PR Bitch Slap”

By: John Tighe

John Tighe — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:50:51 +0000

Hi Vic,
As a total noob I have been trying to follow what you, Grizz, and court say. I made my niche blog and got it indexed after four days two days later it was gone.

I did’nt monetize it and I don’t think I keyword stuffed it. Could the word ‘arse’in the post title send me to the sandbox?

Anyway, I’m stuffed for the time being. Which brings me to my question.

When you say set up a blog, put it on auto pilot and move on to your next blog. What do you mean by auto pilot?

I’m sorry if this a dumb arse question, but its all new to me.

Thanks for all your posts - All the best John

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By: Manas Kabiraj

Manas Kabiraj — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:09:59 +0000

Thanks for the post.I learn may more.Happy new year.

By: YC

YC — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:42:58 +0000

And what do I see in his free “blogging advice” mailing list recently (it is automated obviously) which he never bothered to clean up and is still propagating shit, asking the reader to monetize their blogs with text links from that well known company.
And another ‘post’ that tells readers to have a great blog design else they suck and not have a cluttered blog but his design (not sure about now as I haven’t been there for awhile) is a class a example in cluttered up blog.
I feel like an idiot reading all that slap shit and then not understanding fully what it means to be in the business of making money and knowing how to leverage on the better partnerships.

By: Terry Didcott

Terry Didcott — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:41:22 +0000

Another thing that seems to work is once the reviews are a month old and you’ve been paid for them (very important!), go back and edit them and add “rel=nofollow” to the links. I’ve been doing that with two of mt PR3 blogs and they haven’t been slapped. On one I stopped doing reviews as I didn’t want to lose the PR and as of now all the old review posts have nofollow links, so as the blog now conforms to Google’s rules, in theory I got away with it.

By: Terry Didcott

Terry Didcott — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:26:45 +0000

Tell me about it - the whole “get Text Link ad and write for PPP” stuff I got it all from Yaro and at the time it made perfect sense - maybe no one knew what was coming, or maybe some did but weren’t letting on.

For Yaro it got him plenty of mugs to sign-up for his entrepreneur program for big bucks - as I’m a cheapskate I didn’t go for it (it pays to be cautious) but loads did and what did they learn? How to fuck their blogs they’d spent months or years building up. Ok, Yaro got fucked too, but with his swelled bank balance I bet it hurt his students a shitload more than it hurt him.

Vic, you’re telling it straight the way it is and that’s why I and all the others are here!

Terry

By: AlexK

AlexK — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:09:21 +0000

I know it’s annoying to lose one’s ranking on google because of their control issues. However I think it has two advantages.

1. It is fresh and updates quickly. Okay the pressure to provide meaningful content isn’t fun but looking at it from the consumers point of view there is nothing worse than landing on pages with flashing banners and nothing relevant to the search. Which brings me to the next point.

2. The average user starts looking for alternate search engine. With others being harder to be indexed on. Since they know the search engine on google attempts to find fresh content and your chances are that you will find meaningful information in the first 10 hits keeps the masses coming back. I know my site is on a page like that. It doesn’t come up in the google search I just checked out who is linked to my site.

I ran a search on a couple of other search engines and a site that made the first 10 (number 3 in fact) The page was 10 years old.

On another search engine I made the mistake of clicking the active link rather than copy and pasting the link underneath. I instead of going to a homestead MSN page I got an offer to download some software of course no was not an answer and it started downloading. Unimpressed I had to run a search to delete the two exe files downloaded at that time.

For all it’s worth Google keeps the playground safe.

By: Frank C

Frank C — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:17:46 +0000

I just noticed something interesting about a sponsored review I did. When you do a search on the company name or related terms with ‘review’ or some variant of it attached Google returns a ton of blogs who’ve done paid reviews for them. I assume these blog posts would show up if the link was nofollowed or not.

I guess this works for the sponsor sort of like Blogging Zoom and other social bookmarking sites do for blogs. They get a bunch of positions in SERPs that will lead a potential customer right to them. That seems like it would be more valuable than PR to most companies.

By: Vic

Vic — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:09:15 +0000

Terry what really pisst me off about that whole shit was the fact that the so called A-listers where giving bad advice because it was self serving. They where putting their interest above the interest of their readers. I will never tell you to do something and not tell you what problems you will encounter and I will let you decided it the risk is worth it.

By: Vic

Vic — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:06:47 +0000

Saedel their are certain words that some of these companies require to be written that an easy target for a G bot to flag so at the end of the day if they want to fuck with you they will. I have been using Smorty because they do not require and disclosure they are limited to the opportunities so I am only making about $300 a month but it is easy money so no worries.