Google Says Paid Reviews No No Even For Google
Google Says Paid Reviews No No Even For Google
Paid reviews come under scrutiny at the end of the day by Google which hates paid reviews, but pays for reviews of Google Chrome, but not really. Google slaps itself.
From Drudge linking to The Guardian circa January 2, 2011 this is Google Panda Update Report 15
In a strange turn of events, Google slaps itself after alert viewers noticed that Google Chrome reviews were turning up in various Internet quarters, and paid reviews at that.
I confess that paid reviews, ergo blog posts exhorting products, hasn’t been on my radar, which, was a good thing, as it turns out. If I had known about paid reviews I may have jumped on them with both feet. And then Google would have jumped on ME with both feet.
From what I can learn, Google frowns on paid reviews. I simply do not know why.
Yes, I’m smart enough to understand the mechanics of paid reviews, but why Google hates them as they do doesn’t compute for me. That it does is reason enough for me to steer clear of them.
There are websites on the Internet that serve as middlemen to hook up reviewers with companies which seek reviews of their products. Beyond the review itself, the obvious reason for the review is to impart link juice to the website paying for the reviews with a back link.
This seems innocent enough to me, but Google disagrees, and as you know, we serve at the pleasure of friend Google.
So over the holidays, Google employs a company for a few million bucks to hawk their Google Chrome browser. The company they use winds up paying bloggers to review Google.
Everything is clicking until someone notices what’s going on and starts to squawk. It’s a fine day, after all, when you can catch Google in their own sticky web.
Things rock on and Google with ostrich egg on their faces decides to slap themselves by demoting their own Google Chrome listings for two months.
Google says at this end of this period that if anyone at Google wants to, they can ask for a review so that Google can decide whether or not to un-demote their listings so that they resume their rightful place at the top of the Google listings.
All of this means absolutely nothing to the average Google search user, and not much more to Internet Marketers. It’s a big nothing.
Regular users could care less and Internet Marketers won’t love Google more because Google is so darn fair!
Unless you are getting paid to write Google reviews, as an Internet Marketer, you’re not going to see a nickel of profit from Google’s screw up, and thee is no political capital to be gained from it either.
It’s just one of those funny things that happens to a bloated regime that is too complicated to even police itself. Nobody, not even Mr. Google himself can possibly bear up under the ever expanding pile of Google regulations.
Talking about your “bloatware.”"
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