Is Text Link Ads giving up?
I have screenshots that show what may be the end of paid text links as we know it.
A favorite advertiser with many bloggers, TLA is currently showing some crazy results in their ad calculator. The link ad calculator us

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A lot of debate is going round regarding Google's tough action on paid links and many have been penalized. Google introduced the nofollow attribute to weed out all paid links. There are some good and bad points regarding nofollow attribute. Google claims that it will improve the quality of their search results. It seems that they need webmas

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Before the last update, many of the best blogs on the web were relatively new and managed to get by with a PR between 0 and 3. After the update, many of the PR2’s and 3’s were bumped up to 4. This has made it harder for me to make a little bit of extra money through various blogs since advertisers are now expecting PRs higher than I can offer

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BlogRush has been an underperformer.
It seems the more views I give to the BlogRush widget, the less traffic I have gotten from BlogRush. Take a look at the graph from BlogRush! Even though free and nearly effortless, I will soon be removing the BlogRush widget from my blog. Blogging Zoom has proven to be infinitively better for traffic.
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The debate about paid links was really over years ago.
It is too late to complain about being penalized for paid links. While everyone was paying attention to Google's play with a PageRank slap, for worse things for paid links may already be heading our way.
No matter how you feel about the Google PageRank slap, it is time to face the musi

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With Google's latest PageRank sweep that hammered a large number of blogs with PageRank penalties, including this one, some bloggers are reversing their decision to remove the rel="nofollow" attribute from their comment links. Some are even going as far to enable rel="nofollow" for their posts. For me, this brings up the question… Overre

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"It is Google's job as a search engine to work out what is good relevant content, and what is not. It is not the responsibility of the webmaster to help out with this by clearly marking the route for them. This may sound harsh, but I'm increasinly believing it to be correct. Webmasters may gain benefit from Google, but it is still only an

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In this series I’m seeking ways for the small time blogger to develop a modest cash flow of $100 to $200 a month with their blog. In this part, we'll examine paid link brokers. This once moderately lucrative way for a small blogger to make money has been the subject of a massive Google crackdown on paid links in recent months. Is it still a

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This is a humorous post about trying to hid paid links from Google.
The recent PageRank slap has had major impact in the blogosphere. It will probably harm the smaller blogs more than the higher traffic blogs. What can bloggers do to counteract this. Some are sweeping things under the rug as the author describes.
I enjoyed this post and I t

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How can you use ScratchBack for making money online?
I give 5 ways to make money with ScratchBack on your site. I also give four additional ways for making money online from ScratchBack on other websites or blogs.
This new text link ad system comes at just the right time. With Google giving paid nofollow links a hard time, this could be jus

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Help start the movement to fight back against Google's unrelenting abuse of its power. So many little people are getting hurt with each move the corporate giant makes. We control the content of the web and so we control the net. We just have to take it back. There are some methods that will help people not be so dependent on Google's lates

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I wrote a quick post about skipping paid links and just concentrate on good content.  It has been blogged before, but with the PR issue all over the internet, I just threw my 2 cents in on it.  Many people want to blog and blog good, but because of Google, the minds of bloggers are screwed into thinking that links to

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