Comments on: Google Needs Snitches! No Pay, No Vacation Time, Nobody will like you! http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches I think, then write. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Niamaat http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches/comment-page-1#comment-1707 Niamaat Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:14:58 +0000 http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches#comment-1707 This was a very strong post, Brandon. Robin Li (Baidu--China) Is Baidu a viable alternative? From what I read there Baidu can go toe to toe with Google. http://www.168.fr/2007/03/23/portrait-de-robin-li/ Tough call. So many building only to sell to the master. Baidu, at the moment seems independent. Slavery is no fun. Trinkets and baubles and rules and kudos tossed into the maze are not satisfying either. This was a very strong post. This was a very strong post, Brandon.

Robin Li (Baidu–China)
Is Baidu a viable alternative? From what I read there Baidu can go toe to toe with Google.
http://www.168.fr/2007/03/23/portrait-de-robin-li/

Tough call. So many building only to sell to the master. Baidu, at the moment seems independent.

Slavery is no fun. Trinkets and baubles and rules and kudos tossed into the maze are not satisfying either.

This was a very strong post.

]]> By: Tom http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches/comment-page-1#comment-1610 Tom Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:56:32 +0000 http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches#comment-1610 I'm not quite sure you're making sense. 1. Has Google said that the *seller* of paid links will be penalized? I don't think so except indirectly (if selling links for PR, you'll have a harder time selling if the algorithm gets dialed). 2. Will the buyer be *penalized*? I don't so either, but rather the link will fail to pass PR. That's not a penalty, that's just a decision to withhold a benefit. That's different. I do think that there is a difference between a paid link and a natural link. Just today I gave away several unpaid links because it saves me a lot of trouble to give a link to my reader instead of recapitulating what someone else says. That's the natural link universe and it's different from the links I have that people pay for. Doing my taxes I was searching and searching for a question that should be that obscure (do I pay taxes on state disability insurance for temporary disability). The answer is no, but the SERPs are absolutely horrible and it took forever to answer this simple question. Here's the thing - paid links skew the SERPs toward people who make money on the net and, thus, who pay for links, but that is BAD for users. Ideally, results would be skewed towards answering the question we ask. Full disclosure - I'm sick to death of Google frankly - I sell links - I don't make significant income of the web but what I do make is off quality original content that will only benefit as search engines improve at finding real information. - I am desperately hoping someone will come along and knock Google off its pedestal and come up with search that actually works better. I’m not quite sure you’re making sense.

1. Has Google said that the *seller* of paid links will be penalized? I don’t think so except indirectly (if selling links for PR, you’ll have a harder time selling if the algorithm gets dialed).

2. Will the buyer be *penalized*? I don’t so either, but rather the link will fail to pass PR. That’s not a penalty, that’s just a decision to withhold a benefit. That’s different.

I do think that there is a difference between a paid link and a natural link. Just today I gave away several unpaid links because it saves me a lot of trouble to give a link to my reader instead of recapitulating what someone else says. That’s the natural link universe and it’s different from the links I have that people pay for.

Doing my taxes I was searching and searching for a question that should be that obscure (do I pay taxes on state disability insurance for temporary disability). The answer is no, but the SERPs are absolutely horrible and it took forever to answer this simple question. Here’s the thing – paid links skew the SERPs toward people who make money on the net and, thus, who pay for links, but that is BAD for users. Ideally, results would be skewed towards answering the question we ask.

Full disclosure
– I’m sick to death of Google frankly
– I sell links
– I don’t make significant income of the web but what I do make is off quality original content that will only benefit as search engines improve at finding real information.
– I am desperately hoping someone will come along and knock Google off its pedestal and come up with search that actually works better.

]]> By: Google Can Afford A Clue; Instead They Want Informers? — Conversion Rate Marketing Blog — GrokDotCom by Future Now, Inc http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches/comment-page-1#comment-1593 Google Can Afford A Clue; Instead They Want Informers? — Conversion Rate Marketing Blog — GrokDotCom by Future Now, Inc Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:34:52 +0000 http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches#comment-1593 [...] Do you think this might be hurting the Do No Evil brand? Technorati Tags: Google, Linking Strategies, search engine [...] [...] Do you think this might be hurting the Do No Evil brand? Technorati Tags: Google, Linking Strategies, search engine [...]

]]> By: Google Gets To Decide Who You Sell Advertising To http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches/comment-page-1#comment-1592 Google Gets To Decide Who You Sell Advertising To Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:42:54 +0000 http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches#comment-1592 [...] ineffective. It’s not done using an algo, so you’ll have to rely on a network of snitch bitches, who are not turning in other companies for an ethical reason, but rather because they have a [...] [...] ineffective. It’s not done using an algo, so you’ll have to rely on a network of snitch bitches, who are not turning in other companies for an ethical reason, but rather because they have a [...]

]]> By: Darren McLaughlin http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches/comment-page-1#comment-1591 Darren McLaughlin Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:34:09 +0000 http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches#comment-1591 Nice post and I completely agree. I'm sure most "general webmasters" don't think they're doing anything wrong by selling a few links to pay bills. Google is losing it with policies like this. Nice post and I completely agree. I’m sure most “general webmasters” don’t think they’re doing anything wrong by selling a few links to pay bills.

Google is losing it with policies like this.

]]> By: Google and Paid Links - Someone Turn on the Lights I Can’t See It’s so Dark! » Vince Cordic’s Internet Marketing Tactics http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches/comment-page-1#comment-1587 Google and Paid Links - Someone Turn on the Lights I Can’t See It’s so Dark! » Vince Cordic’s Internet Marketing Tactics Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:09:09 +0000 http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches#comment-1587 [...] Brandon Hopkins offers some advice to Google on his blog, he says, “stop fighting against webmasters, because if it weren’t for us, you wouldn’t have anything to offer searchers. Spot on Brandon, Google needs to be thanking us webmasters, not punishing us. We’re not all part of the dark side you know… [...] [...] Brandon Hopkins offers some advice to Google on his blog, he says, “stop fighting against webmasters, because if it weren’t for us, you wouldn’t have anything to offer searchers. Spot on Brandon, Google needs to be thanking us webmasters, not punishing us. We’re not all part of the dark side you know… [...]

]]> By: Cotiso http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches/comment-page-1#comment-1586 Cotiso Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:48:24 +0000 http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches#comment-1586 Amen to that! Google did many things that I didn't like in the past, but this one really pissed me off. Just as the dofollow movement started these days, I would just love a movement supporting a new search engine. If a new startup comes up with something that gives good results I'm switching immediately. Google started the nofollow movement, made us afraid of mentioning a site with a link because it might hurt us in the rankings if they're considered "bad neighborhood", puts half of my pages in the supplemental index, though they are unique content, now punishing those of us that try to promote their website or monetise it? Enough is enough already! Amen to that! Google did many things that I didn’t like in the past, but this one really pissed me off. Just as the dofollow movement started these days, I would just love a movement supporting a new search engine. If a new startup comes up with something that gives good results I’m switching immediately.
Google started the nofollow movement, made us afraid of mentioning a site with a link because it might hurt us in the rankings if they’re considered “bad neighborhood”, puts half of my pages in the supplemental index, though they are unique content, now punishing those of us that try to promote their website or monetise it? Enough is enough already!

]]> By: Printer http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches/comment-page-1#comment-1585 Printer Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:47:22 +0000 http://www.brandon-hopkins.com/google-needs-snitches#comment-1585 There will soon be a Google Witness Protection Program! I heard through the Grapevine that they purchased a small tropical island where they will harbor all the snitches. They will then have a workforce of thousands sipping fruity drinks under palm trees combing the internet for link sellers. Google owns the internet, and they will soon own the world! There will soon be a Google Witness Protection Program! I heard through the Grapevine that they purchased a small tropical island where they will harbor all the snitches. They will then have a workforce of thousands sipping fruity drinks under palm trees combing the internet for link sellers.
Google owns the internet, and they will soon own the world!

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