If you did a search with term Text Link Ads in Google around the time this entry was posted, you will find that Text Link Ads no longer holds the number one spot for their own name, except for their Google Ad which appears at the top of the result page.
It would mean that if users want to directly visit their homepage via the search engine, they will likely to press the Google ad instead of searching for the missing link through search result pages (which means profit for Google, a lost to Patrick Gavin, TLA owner)
It’s pretty interesting to see Text Link Ads the company that sell links to webmasters to increase their website position in the search engine now lost its position in Google. What will they do to counter this?
Whether Google want to seriously penalized webmasters involve in selling web links business to manipulate search engine results is still a speculation, but I believe it’s bad news to those whose earning depends renting website links in their website.
It was also rumored that Google Page Rank technology will be deprecated soon. You can read the heavy debate in Webmaster World forum. | Via Alang
August 13th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Is Google really going to deprecate PR? That’d be great!
I think PR has been overemphasised to death, and the ways that paid links are calculated, based on PR, is misleading.
Paid links should include the nofollow attribute.
August 13th, 2007 at 4:23 am
Alex Choo: It’s still on the discussion board I suppose. I too have the the same opinion that it’s kinda unfair for us to judge website performance based on its page rank when Google stated that its pr system not accurate anymore.
Advertisers should look at other point of view. Even though the site has high page rank (let’s say, 6 or 7) , no one can’t guarantee that it will retain the ranking or receive high traffic for the best ROI.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:06 am
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November 4th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
The marketplace sure seems to be changing quickly for text link ads.