moneytalks: that makes sense what you are saying. Problem is that those paid links won’t allow us to attach “nofollow” links as of yet.
This might change in the future if they also loose revenue because bloggers step back.

Monika

i been listening to people all over the place about this paid link things. IMO google don’t penalize paid link but penalize paid link with nofollow. if you buy paid link and put nofollow tag google won’t count that link for calculating PR and it could save a lot of their resources.

if you put paid link with follow tag you are against their rules and make their spider waste their resources and time and that is the reason they want to penalize that kind of site. they want to save their resources.

calculating PR is not a simple and quick thing to do. thousands of pages come a live on the net everyday. their main concern is the real user of their search engine and majorities of them are not like us which is making money online. and they require a lot of resources to cover all that and make their biz profitable at the same time. so if people are not helping them why should they help others.

The whole act of PPP and similar sites is to get advertisers on board so they get paid also. They are kind of the intermediary and they would never allow re”nofollow’ links on these reviews.

Hence in the next update the big G might slap all those bloggers who keep doing this.
I might be wrong, but this is how I feel.

Regardless of my opinion, I might be totally off the bat and I guess we will know sometime.

But thanks for your insights too. I love hearing different views on topics as it does make for interesting comments and we can maybe learn a thing or two as well.

Monika

that’s a good number to begin with. it would just increase if you just keep doing it. about those those paid link stuff from what i understand google just would never count those link while calculating page rank that would have effect on your ranking in the serp. if you think you can get enough traffic from other sources and could generate income from text link or pay per post or reviews just go ahead.

i don’t think they would penalize blog for doing it. i believe they penalize directories because they just don’t favor site where you accept low quality sites in one place and you earn money for that. just like link farm but a different version.

anyway keep writing. i hope i could learn something here to better my writing.

Could you break down the blogging stats a bit – I didn’t really follow how you earned money out of it – you don’t seem to have any ads on this blog, does that mean you have a truck-load of other blogs?

Maneesh: hi there Maneesh, thank you, I can say that I’m very happy with this figure. I’m right on track for what I have in mind so that’s good to see.

Terry: I might just do that (use you as a guinea pig) LOL I really hope for you that you won’t get slapped! And I certainly keep an eye on Yaro too in regards to this.

Monika

Maybe you can use me an the experiment for PPP to see if I either get booted out of PPP for changing older links to nofollow, or Google slaps me down in 3 months time.

Either way, I’m going to keep writing paid reviews until other streams of income start flowing better. So let’s wait and see what happens.

It’ll also be interesting to see if Yaro gets his PR back after getting rid of his paid text links. That’ll be a good pointer as to which way to go.

Terry

Secondly, you got 600 visitors in October?? I’m sure it must be more?