Comments on: Crazy Eddie's Link Emporium

By: Harmony Houghland

Harmony Houghland — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:22:47 +0000

I both love and hate Google at the same time, and for different reasons. Love obviously for the traffic, and hate for their heavy handed approach to control their business partners. For good or bad they’re try to shape the internet into their vision of what is “right”. I don’t think anyone should have that much power. Google is arguably nothing, but a big scraper site themselves. I’ve hung around Blackhat forums in the past, but never had the stomach for going totally black. The internet world is afterall just another shade of grey.

By: Cristi Gullotta

Cristi Gullotta — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:39:18 +0000

As I tweeted to Matt this morning, I get the feeling it’s not really in his hands. Surely if it were, things would be better. He knows what to do, and he’s not dumb. The type of spam that continues to work these days is not very sophisticated…or so it seems. Which is why I believe Google (not Matt) wants the results to suck just enough for people to click the ads.

By: HE

HE — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:56:22 +0000

Paid link building is true, unfortunate and without a solution, all at the same time.

By: Newell and Budge

Newell and Budge — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:43:11 +0000

I agree with “Ana Amour Rencontres”, it is human nature to maximize the potential to get benefit from them. Maybe a big company like google need to find new business model to solve this problem.

By: Ana Amour Rencontres

Ana Amour Rencontres — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Of course Google created this whole sub-industry. You cannot just invent something and then expect people not to use it to it’s maximum potential. Humans are intelligent creatures, it should have been clear that they will uncover the link mystery and use it to their favor!

By: Gene

Gene — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:34:48 +0000

There’s a funny side story to this whole link buying hypocrisy issue. Back when Google made Izea (the company behind payperpost) feel the sting of a firm backhanded pimp slap, the guys behind the Page Rank beatdown, Tech Crunch, were shown to be hypocrites. Izea pointed out that Tech Crunch also sold links. Nothing like drama and controversy to get page views, right?

After all the finger pointing was over and Izea’s bloggers had to sober up to the reality that their blogs’ page rank is now Zero, the practice still continues and tolerated for those who have clout. The little guys, as always, end up with the boot up the ass.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:37:20 +0000

Paid link building is true, unfortunate and without a solution, all at the same time.

By: Ranked Hard

Ranked Hard — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:20:52 +0000

John

Good to hear from you. Actually I put that ad up after the comic knowing full well the irony. I was wondering if anyone else would catch it. Hey, paid links work (for now) so I don’t mind advertising a company that does it. We’ll wait for Google to make up their minds what they want to do about it.

By: michaelj72

michaelj72 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:37:47 +0000

sounds to me like a rather insoluvable problem which google itself largely creating by putting so much emphasis on page rank and inbound links as the factors in serps – and the nature of the competitive beast of the society whih is compete compete and compete.
like with the drug wars, the little guys get caught and penalized the most and the big guys can buy their way out. they’ve have to come up with a way that doesn’t rely so heavily on links…..

By: john

john — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:32:21 +0000

Good comment, but i thinks its a bit ironic to have an inlinks ad on the same page selling links! Hah. bet you didn’t notice it.
still love you all.