Comments on: Paid Text Links Cause of Huge Google PageRank Penalties

By: Ndaru

Ndaru — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:56:43 +0000

Interesting. TLA also refused to pay for ads that were shown up for 29 days on my site before I drop them all.

By: Innovations & interesting Ramblings

Innovations & interesting Ramblings — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:34:35 +0000

yes lot if issues with payments from TLA…they are not paying the full money…this will only speeden up their downfall and eventual closure…

By: Alpesh Nakar

Alpesh Nakar — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:26:14 +0000

Its a shame that my blog is down to 2! This makes it very clear that if I remove the TLA effective Nov1 (after receiving payments for Oct), I maybe able to get my pr up again.

Thanks QOT, all the best.

By: Vikram

Vikram — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:54:16 +0000

Thats correct Ross, you should read the article on how TLA refused to pay to the publisher, after serving the AD for almost 20 -25 days! Its on John Blog. QOT has included the link in above article as well.

TLA and other text link brokers business model is going to be strained big time now!

I hope you PR gets back to normal QOT! You deserve better than this! :(

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:32:16 +0000

I removed the TLA service from my site as soon as it was even hinted that text link ads might cause a drop in pagerank. I also emailed the president of TLA and asked if they were considering allowing the use of nofollow and he said “we haven’t made the decision to allow the no follow tag at this point but will consider. The issue is our advertisers are paying for an ad that will not have the tag and with it advertisers will drop. Will keep you updated, thx”. That was on Oct 11th, and I haven’t heard back yet. I have received a few automated messages from TLA telling me that ads have been sold but there seems to be a “problem” with them displaying on my site (which of course makes sense since I disabled the plugin and removed the code etc).

Frankly, I suspect they’ll lose MORE money by not allowing nofollow, since I’m sure I’m not the only one that has recently dropped their service.

By: Maris

Maris — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:50:49 +0000

Ok, will wait to see what link sellers made up. But for now I have removed paid links from my blog and I’m hoping that google will give back my PR. I’m down from 5 to 2 – shame..