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Sponsored Content and Google Penalties – Is Google Acting Hypoctrical?

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

Seeing that @mattcutts unfollowed @shoemoneybecause of “sponsored tweets”, I began to follow several of the bloggers that have been controversial and very much in the face of what they deem as Google’s hypocritical assessment of penalties.  At issue here is Google’s and Matt Cutts “almightier than thou” attitude that if you provide links in exchange for goods or services, those links had better be NoFollowed or … Continue reading →

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Sponsored Blog Posts Attract Google’s Attention

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Barry Wheeler

It is known as the “no follow” tag, a small piece of HTML that was introduced to help search engines (especially Google), recognize that a link is not to count towards the popularity of the link in search engine ranking.  Google has made it abundantly clear in it will not trust websites that violate the Google Webmaster quality guidelines. Barry WheelerBarry Wheeler is a blogger, … Continue reading →

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