I got screwed over by a blog seller. Well maybe it was not her fault if it was I will name and shame here in the next post.
When I bought the blog last week it was a PageRank 4 (god do I hate Google PageRank!).
Now when I finally have it moved over to my site it’s a PageRank ZERO. Punished by Google for joining Pay Per Post. Funny the seller told me she did not write anything for them I guess that was a lie.
I will try to convince the buyer to return the money and she can have the blog and if you think the punish time for PPP is over, think again.
Techcrunch is taking another shot at a sitting and injured duck to make easy headline. By commenting about PPP in a negative way he knows that loads of bloggers will read his post and possibly link back to the post (link bating on a higher level).
Last week Techcrunch had a poll if they should have PPP ads on the site and off course they would never do that now when they know what will happen with the PageRank and off course they got loads of back links and readers.
I do not understand the difference if you have a category saying SPONSORED POST or THIS POST IS PAYING MY KIDS or you have Adsense or other ads (like Techcrunch) the blog is sponsored both ways. Sure if you hide the advertising then its bad but if you clearly and openly tell your readers that this post is paid then I do not see the problem. Most PPP users did that but I guess Google wanted to stop people from buying PageRank in the same way they stopped people from buying rank in directory but here it affected over 80 000 bloggers not just a few directory owners.
Google should if they have any credibility left go out and comment to the users what the new rules are with PageRank and PPP
This blog is ranked among the top 80 % of the total blogs that Pay Per post have. I was not counting on anything higher since we do not have that much PageRank but now when the REAL rank by EIZA kicked in I was very happy.
This means that advertisers can pick who they want to write for them based on real traffic and not from the scale that is secret and unfair.
Just because I am a member on PPP or write about getting paid to blog should not mean that I have lower PageRank but since last month it does.
The whole thing gets even more absurd when blogs that has a good rep with Google goes unpunished even if they have loads of adverts on the site.
What Google is trying to do is stop people from making money outside Google Adsense and it is not working.
